Steven A. Beebe is an American professor of communication. He is a communication and C. S. Lewis scholar who discovered a fragment of an unpublished manuscript started by C.S. Lewis that was to be co-authored by J. R. R. Tolkien about communication. Beebe is Regents' and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Texas State University, San Marcos. Beebe has 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. He is past president of the National Communication Association and played a leadership role in developing the Russian Communication Association.
