Steven A Beebe

Steven A. Beebe is an American professor of communication. He is a noted communication and C. S. Lewis scholar, and is recognized for discovering a fragment of an unpublished manuscript started by C.S. Lewis that was to be co-authored by J. R. R. Tolkien about communication while examining Lewis' manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Beebe is Regents' and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Texas State University, San Marcos. Beebe is a highly published scholar with more than 60 published articles and book chapters. He is also the author or co-author of 14 books that have been used at hundreds of colleges and universities by several million students throughout the world. He is past president of the National Communication Association and played a leadership role in developing the Russian Communication Association.