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Dr. Barnes is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas and Chair of Logic/Rhetoric & Literature/Composition at Live Oak Classical School in Waco, TX.
Ph.D. in Rhetoric – Texas Woman’s University; earned 2014
Dissertation title: Classical Education for the Modern Student: The Place of Poetics
among the “Rival Sisters of the Trivium”
Master of Politics – Braniff Graduate School, University of Dallas; Irving, Texas; earned 2000
B.A., Communications – Dallas Baptist University; Dallas, Texas; earned 1997
Consultant, 2020-present
Institute for Catholic Liberal Education
Adjunct Professor of Classical Education, 2019–present
Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, University of Dallas / Irving, TX
Head of English Department, Teacher of A.P. English; Moral Philosophy; Latin; and
Rhetoric I and II, 2013-present
Live Oak Classical School / Waco, TX
Curriculum Coordinator, Teacher of Latin, 2012-13
Christ Church Classical School / Temple, Texas
Teacher of Introductory Logic, 2012
Providence Preparatory School / Belton, Texas
Adjunct Instructor of English, 2009-2011
Shorter University / Rome, GA
Adjunct Instructor of Politics; Communication, 2006-2008
College of the Ozarks / Point Lookout, MO
Adjunct Instructor of U.S. and Texas Government; Developmental Writing; Developmental Reading),
1999-2001
Mountain View College / Dallas, Texas
Teacher of U.S. History; Drama; and English, 2002-2004
Covenant School / Dallas, Texas
Teacher of English; History; and Latin, 2001-2002
West Dallas Community School / Dallas, Texas
Tutor of Grammar and Composition, 1998-2001
Mountain View College / Dallas, Texas
Poetics and rhetoric
The trivium of the language arts
Metaphor and symbol
Classical models of composition
Rhetoric Alive: Senior Thesis Student Workbook. Classical Academic Press. 2018.
“Today’s Trivium: The Comeback of Classical Education.” Arts of Liberty Journal. 2017.
“Teaching Rhetoric in the Classical Classroom.” Beyond the Test: Rhetoric. The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. Issue #23. 2017. Web.
Rhetoric Alive 1: Principles of Persuasion with Aristotle. Classical Academic Press. 2016.
“Aristotle and Paul Ricoeur on Metaphor: The Rhetoric of Renaming.” Acta Humanitarica Universitatis Saulensis. Issue 8 (2009).
“Diction as Rhetoric in Faulkner’s Nobel Acceptance Speech.” Proceedings of the 51st International
Scientific Conference of Daugavpils University. Vol. 1. Daugavpils, Latvia. 2010.
337-40.
“Rhetoric and Pedagogy in Secondary Schools.” To be presented at the 2022 Arrowhead Invitational
Institute. UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center. Forthcoming in Spring 2022.
“The Rhetoric of Grammar: Why the Simple Sentence Isn’t All that Simple and Other Grammatical
Surprises.” Advanced Formation Seminar for the Institute of Catholic Liberal Education.
July 15, 2020.
“Harkness Seminar Meets Thomas Aquinas: Combatting Relativism with the Disputed Question.”
Presented at the 202 Conference for the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education.
July 29, 2020. Online.
“What is the Trivium, What Was the Trivium, and How Should We Teach the Trivium?” Presented
at the 2019 Conference for the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. Catholic
University.
“Fighting Freshman Relativism: A Lesson from K-12 Schools.” Presented at the 2019
Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture. Baylor University.
“What is the Trivium, What Was the Trivium, and How Should We Teach the Trivium?” Presented
at the 2019 Conference for the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. Catholic
University of America.
“Rhetoric or Reality? Why Facts Can Fall Flat, How Ideas Can Get Twisted, and How
Pointing Out Logical Fallacies Can Help.” Presented at the 2019 Conference for the
Institute for Catholic Liberal Education. Catholic University of America.
“Spinning the Genre Wheel: The Tempest as a Dantesque Comedy.” Presented at 2017 Association of Literary Scholars, Critics
and Writers Conference. University of Dallas.
“An Introduction to Rhetoric: 34 Terms You Should Know.” Presented at the 2017 Society
for Classical Learning Conference. Dallas, Texas.
“How Should We Then View?: Watching Films Poetically, Not Rhetorically.” Presented
at the 2014 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture. Baylor University.
“‘Rival Sisters of the Trivium’: Dorothy Sayers and Marshall McLuhan on Grammar, Dialectic, and
Rhetoric.” Presented at the 2013 HBU Philosophy Conference. Houston Baptist University.
“Facebook and the Rhetoric of the Self.” Presented at the 2012 Baylor Symposium on Faith
and Culture. Baylor University.
“Principled Pedagogy: Exploring the Metaphysics of Composition.” Presented at the
2011 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture. Baylor University.
“Visual Rhetoric: Interpreting the Afghan Girl.” Presented at the 2011 Annual Graduate
and Undergraduate Student Conference on Literature, Rhetoric and Composition. The
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
“Aristotle and Paul Ricoeur on Metaphor: The Rhetoric of Renaming.” Presented at
the 2009 Šiauliai University Faculty of Humanities Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference.
Šiauliai, Lithuania.
“Diction as Rhetoric in Faulkner’s Nobel Acceptance Speech.” Presented at the 2009 International
Scientific Conference of Daugavpils University. Daugavpils, Latvia.
“The Ascendancy of Speech: St. Augustine’s Rhetorical Theology in Confessions, Book Nine.” Presented at the 2005 Paideia College Society Student Conference. Dallas
Baptist University.
Professional Development Workshop Presentations
“An Introduction to Rhetoric: 34 Terms You Should Know.”
“Aquinas: The Disputed Question as an Answer to Relativism.”
“Are We Having Fun Yet? Wonder and Its Counterfeits in the Classical Classroom.”
“Aristotle: Discovering Ideas with the Rhetorical Commonplaces.”
“Classical Education for the Modern Student.”
“Classical Education: So Far Behind, It’s Ahead.”
“Rhetoric Across the Curriculum.”
“Rhetoric or Reality? Why Facts Can Fall Flat, How Ideas Can Get Twisted, and How Pointing Out Fallacies Can Help.”
“Socrates and Harkness: The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Seminar.”
“Socratic Seminar: Leisure the Basis of Culture.”
“Socratic Seminar: The Gettysburg Address.”
“Wisdom and Virtue: Ideas for Planning and Assessment.”
NEH Philosophers of Education Institute participant (competitive), Boston University, 2016
Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Golden Key International Honor Society
Recipient of the Dr. Leslie R. Kreps Endowed Scholarship, 2013-14
Recipient of the Dr. John L. Dawson Sr. Endowed Scholarship, 2012-13
