Erik Doxtader is a scholar of rhetoric and critical theory. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, Doxtader took a BA at the University of Kansas and both an MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

Doxtader is a professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina,^[1] and the current editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric, an international quarterly journal published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to assuming the editorship in 2018, he served as the journal's Book Review Editor from 2005-2017.^[2]

Doxtader is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, a recognized non-governmental organization in Cape Town, South Africa.^[3] In 1999, he was awarded a 2000-2001 fellowship in the SSRC-MacArthur program in Peace and Security in a Changing World.^[4] His book, With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, received the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America book award.^[5]

• Doxtader, Erik (2009). With faith in the works of words: the beginnings of reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-851-5. OCLC 235946025.^{[reviews 1]}

• Charles Villa-Vicencio; Erik Doxtader; Ebrahim Moosa, eds. (2015). The African renaissance and the Afro-Arab spring: a season of rebirth?. Washington, DC. ISBN 978-1-62616-198-6. OCLC 910326527.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)^{[reviews 2]}
• Fanie Du Toit, Erik Doxtader, ed. (2010). In the balance: South Africans debate reconciliation. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media. ISBN 978-1-77009-837-4. OCLC 662406432.
• Erik Doxtader, ed. (2009). Inventing the potential of rhetorical culture: the work and legacy of Thomas B. Farrell. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03627-4. OCLC 427644787.
• Erik Doxtader; Philippe Joseph Salazar, eds. (2007). Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents. Cape Town: David Philip and New Africa Books.^{[reviews 3]}
• Charles Villa-Vicencio; Erik Doxtader; Richard Goldstone, eds. (2004). Pieces of the puzzle: keywords on reconciliation and transitional justice. Cape Town, South Africa: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. ISBN 0-9584794-5-3. OCLC 59757722.
• Erik Doxtader, Philippe Joseph Salazar, ed. (2007). Truth & reconciliation in South Africa: the fundamental documents. Claremont, South Africa: New Africa Books. ISBN 978-0-86486-707-0. OCLC 184983013.
• Erik Doxtader, Charles Villa-Vicencio, ed. (2004). To repair the irreparable: reparation and reconstruction in South Africa. Claremont: David Philip Publishers. ISBN 0-86486-618-6. OCLC 60777028.
• Charles Villa-Vicencio, Erik Doxtader, ed. (2003). The provocations of amnesty: memory, justice, and impunity. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 1-59221-089-9. OCLC 51637703.^{[reviews 4]}
• Erik Doxtader, Charles Villa-Vicencio, ed. (2003). Through fire with water: the roots of division and the potential for reconciliation in Africa (1st ed.). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 1-59221-083-X. OCLC 51446663.^{[reviews 5]}