[1] Goodnight is a professor and director of doctoral studies in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
He has lectured in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Netherlands.
Before joining USC full-time in 2004, Goodnight taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Northwestern University's Communication Studies department in contemporary rhetorical theory, criticism, theory of argumentation, and the public sphere.
His current research interests include deliberation and postwar society, science communication, argument and aesthetics, public discourse studies, and communicative reason in controversy.
Goodnight has been named by the American Forensics Association as one of the top 5 scholars in argumentation in the twentieth century.