Dana L. Cloud

Dana L. Cloud
Dana L. Cloud
Academic background
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University (BA, BS); University of Iowa (MA, PhD);
Academic work
Discipline	Communications
Sub-discipline	Rhetoric; Culture theory; Gender theory; Queer theory;
Institutions	University of Texas in Austin; Syracuse University; University of Cincinnati;

Dana L. Cloud is an American communication professor at the University of Cincinnati. Cloud's primary research focuses on rhetoric, culture theory, gender theory, and queer theory. She is best known for her 1998 book Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetoric of Therapy in which she coined the term "rhetoric of therapy".