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Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell is an American academic specializing in rhetorical criticism at the University of Minnesota.
Background.
Campbell was born on April 16, 1937, near Blomkest, Minnesota. She attended Willmar High School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College, St. Paul, in 1958. She earned a Master of Arts (1959) and a Ph.D. (1968) from the University of Minnesota. 
Professional life.
Campbell has taught at the State University of New York at Brockport;
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell wrote an influential essay, "The Rhetoric of Women's Liberation: An Oxymoron", that drew feminists' attention to women's role as communicators within rhetorical frameworks, and to the relevance of feminist theory to the study of rhetoric. Feminist scholar Patricia Bizzell noted in 1992 that classical canon of rhetoric consists almost entirely of well-educated male authors. In addition, feminist rhetoric scholars argued that the world of rhetoric was suffused with patriarchal values. To address this perceived problem, they made efforts to include women