WILLIAM D. LUTZ
Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Nevada at Reno
J.D. Rutgers School of Law

Author or co-author of sixteen books, including Firestorm at Peshtigo (2002), Doublespeak Defined (1999), and The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore (1996), Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living (1989), The Cambridge Thesaurus of American English (1994), Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four: Doublespeak in a Post-Orwellian Age, (1989) and Webster's New World Thesaurus, revised edition, (1985).

Author of articles in such publications as The London Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today, Esquire, Business and Society Review, Public Relations Quarterly, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, The North American Review, The AIG Journal of Graphic Design, Communicators in Business, ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, College English, and College Composition and Communication.

Former editor of The Quarterly Review of Doublespeak; former editor of the Samsung Magazine, published by the Samsung Group of Seoul, Korea; contributor to Corporate Annual Reports Newsletter.

Presented with the Pennsylvania Bar Association Clarity Award for the Promotion of Plain English in Legal Writing, 2001; Rutgers University President's Award for Public Service, 2000; George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, National Council of Teachers of English, 1996; Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University, 1991; and New Jersey Department of Higher Education Distinguished Service Award, 1989.

Undergraduate courses regularly taught include Doublespeak, World Masterpieces, Science Fiction Film, Science Fiction Literature, Victorian Literature, and Literature and Law; graduate courses include Rhetoric of the Image; The Teaching of Writing; Theory of Composition; Introduction to Graduate Literary Study.

Profiled on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CNN Headline News. Guest on The MacNeil-Lehrer News Report; Walter Cronkite Special (CBS Television); Today Show (3 appearances); CBS Nightwatch; Larry King Show (2 appearances); Booknotes (C-SPAN); Dick Cavett Show (CNBC). Narrator and host of the 30-minute PBS program "Doublespeak" produced by WNET Channel 13, New York, and syndicated on public television stations across the United States as part of its "Currents" series.