Holloway Lecture at McDaniel College features 2007 alumnus Martin Camper

Alumnus Martin Camper '07 returns to his alma mater, McDaniel College, on Wednesday, Oct. 26, to speak as part of the college’s Holloway Lecture. Titled “How to (not) Argue for Constitutional Rights: Lessons from Lawrence and Obergefell,” the lecture takes place at 7:30 p.m. in McDaniel Hall's Coley Rice Lounge. It is free and open to the public. 

Camper, who is currently an associate professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland, is the author of “Arguing Over Texts: The Rhetoric of Interpretation.”

In addition, he serves as director of Loyola’s Center for the Humanities. Before coming to Loyola in 2013, he was a lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park.

He has had articles published in academic journals, including Philosophy and Rhetoric, Journal of Communication and Religion, Rhetoric Review, and Advances in the History of Rhetoric, among others.  He is a member of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, National Communication Association, and National Council of Teachers of English, as well as the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society. He is also a member of the Rhetoric Society of America and is co-chair of their 2022 biennial conference. 

In addition to graduating summa cum laude from McDaniel with a bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish, he received a master’s degree in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland.

The Holloway Lecture is named for Fred G. Holloway, the college’s fourth president. A graduate of the class of 1919, he went on to earn a divinity degree from Drew University and was ordained by the Methodist Protestant church in 1921. He served in Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland, before he became a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1927. He became an administrator at the Seminary, and, after a short time, president of the college. For more information about the Holloway Lecture, call 410-857-2530.