Professor Sloane's research interests center on rhetorical criticism, the history of rhetoric, the English Renaissance, and modern literature.

Selected Publications

The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, Edited (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Rhetorica Movet: Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of Heinrich F. Plett, Edited, with Peter L. Oesterreich (Leiden: Brill, 1999).

On the Contrary: the Protocol of Traditional Rhetoric (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1997).

"Rhetoric and Poetry," "Ethos," and "Pathos," in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).

Donne, Milton, and the End of Humanist Rhetoric (Berkeley, University of California Press: 1985).

The Rhetoric of Rennaissance Poetry: From Wyatt to Milton, Edited, with Raymond B. Waddington (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974).

"Rhetoric," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (Chicago/London, 1974), 15: 798-803.