About

Steven Gaines is a fourth-year PhD student who researches race, gender, and conflict in religious and organizational communication. He has taught advanced public speaking, business and professional communication, communication theory, intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, oral communication, and organizational communication. His writings have been accepted for publication in four journals and two books.

https://independent.academia.edu/StevenGaines1 

Education

MDiv, Harding School of Theology
BA, MA, MACM, Abilene Christian University

Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant in Communication, University of Memphis, 2015-Present
Graduate Assistant in Homiletics, Harding School of Theology, 2014-2015
Adjunct Instructor of Communication, University of Memphis, 2013
Adjunct Instructor of Communication, University of South Carolina Upstate, 2007-2008
Assistant Director of Forensics, Instructor, and Adjunct Instructor of
Communication, Abilene Christian University, 2003-2007
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Communication, University of Oklahoma, 2002-2003
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Communication, Abilene Christian University, 2001-2002

Honors and Awards

Michael and Suzanne Osborn Fellowship for the Study of Rhetoric and Public Address, University of Memphis, 2015-2018
Religious Communication Top Paper Panel, National Communication Association Convention, 2017
Top Graduate Student Paper Award, Tennessee Communication Association Convention, 2016

Research

Race, gender, and conflict in religious and organizational communication, especially rhetorical leadership

Teaching

Advanced Public Speaking
Business and Professional Communication
Fundamentals of Communication
General Communication Theory
Intercultural Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Oral Communication
Organizational Communication
Public Speaking Special Topics

Publications

"Constrained Prophetic Rhetoric: White Fragility and Radio Sermons in the Summer of 1968." In Radio's Second Century: A Reader, ed. John Allen Hendricks. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, forthcoming.

"Daring to Prophesy: Social Controversy in a Sermon by Kathy Pulley." Journal of Communication and Religion 41:4 (2018): forthcoming.

""No Half Savior: Jarena Lee's Autobiography as Prophetic Rhetoric."" Carolinas Communication Annual 33 (2017): 62-76.

""Redefining Preaching: A Beginning."" Res Rhetorica 4:3 (2017): 31-45.

Review of From Generation to Generation: A Commemorative Collection of African American Millennial Sermons from the Festival of Preachers 2010-2015. Homiletic 41:1 (2016): 87-88.

Review of Building a Community of Interpreters: Readers and Hearers as Interpreters. Homiletic 38:2 (2013): 66.

"Restoration Review." In The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement, ed. Douglas A. Foster, Paul M. Blowers, Anthony L. Dunnavant, and D. Newell Williams, 644. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005."

Presentations

"Discarding the Constitution: Political and Religious Foundations in Victoria Woodhull's Presidential Campaign Rhetoric." Tennessee Communication Association Convention, Gallatin, TN, 2017.

"Daring to Prophesy: Kathy Pulley's 1984 Easter Sermon." Christian Scholars' Conference, Nashville, TN, 2017.

"Privileged Repentance in Prophetic Preaching." Christian Scholars' Conference, Nashville, TN, 2017.

"From Radio to Facebook: White Engagement with African American Rhetoric." Sacred Rhetoric Conference, Findlay, OH, 2017.

"An Unavoidable Sermon: John A. Scott's Response to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination." Sacred Rhetoric Conference, Findlay, OH, 2017.

"Ethical Innovation in Religious Rhetoric: First Peter's Challenge to Household Codes." Southern States Communication Association Convention, Greenville, SC, 2017.

"No Half Savior: Spiritual Autobiography as Prophetic Rhetoric in the Testimony of Jarena Lee." National Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2016.

"Constrained Prophetic Rhetoric: White Fragility and Radio Sermons in the Summer of 1968." Tennessee Communication Association Convention, Dickson, TN, 2016. Top Graduate Student Paper.

"Antiracist Rhetoric in Sermons by John Allen Chalk." Christian Scholars' Conference, Nashville, TN, 2016.

"Moral Conflict in the First Sermon by a Woman in the Churches of Christ." Southern States Communication Association Convention, Austin, TX, 2016.

Encyclopedia Article

Gaines, S. T. (2005). Restoration review. In D. A. Foster, P. M. Blowers, A. L. Dunnavant, and D. N. Williams (Eds.), The encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement (644). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Book Reviews

Gaines, S. T. (2013). Building a community of interpreters: Readers and hearers as interpreters by W. R. Dickhaut. Homiletic 38(2), 66.

Gaines, S. T. (2016). From generation to generation: A commemorative collection of African American millennial sermons from the Festival of Preachers 2010-2015 edited by W. L. Harrison-Jones. Homiletic 41(1), 87-88.