Rhetoricity

This special episode of Rhetoricity features a roundtable that also serves as the "Afterwords" for a forthcoming collection entitled Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth . That collection is edited by Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, and Ira Allen and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2026. The featured panelists are James Ball, Barbara Biesecker, Omedi Ochieng, Robin Reame...

This episode features an interview with Dr. Derek G. Handley , author of the book Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement . Dr. Handley is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is also affiliated faculty in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and in the Urban Studies program. Before that...

This episode features an interview with Kendall Gerdes . Dr. Gerdes is an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she also serves as president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors. This interview focuses on her book  Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism , which won the Conferenc...

This episode features an interview with Dr. Ashley Joyce Holmes . Dr. Holmes is Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University, where she leads the Center for Teaching and Learning in supporting effective, innovative, and scholarly teaching that engages students in meaningful learning experiences. She has published books, articles, and chapters in writing studies. One...

This episode features an interview with Christina Cedillo . Dr. Cedillo is an associate professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where she recently won the 2024 President's Research Award. Her research lies at the intersections of race, gender, and disability. She examines how legal, scientific, and popular discourses circumscribe the embodied lives of marginalized populations, and how t...

This episode features a roundtable conversation by contributors to  Teaching Students to Podcast , an open-access, lesson plan-based manual on integrating podcasts into humanities courses. That manual was written by members of the Humanities Podcast Network 's pedagogy working group. The discussion features six of its coauthors: Ulrich Baer , Robin Davies , Eric Detweiler , Emmy Herland , Beth Kra...

This episode features an interview with Dr. Keith Gilyard conducted by guest host Dr. Derek G. Handley during the 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute at Penn State University. They discuss Gilyard's path to a career in rhetoric, writing, and composition studies; his writing process and creative writing; academic mentorship and leadership; and his legacy and contributions to the field...

This episode features an interview with Jennifer Lin LeMesurier . The conversation, recorded at this year's Conference on College Composition and Communication, focuses on her 2023 book Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption . That book explores how the rhetorical framing of food and eating underpins our understanding of Asian and Asian American identity in the...

This episode of  Rhetoricity features members of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing : Antonio Byrd , Holly Hassel , Sarah Z. Johnson , Anna Mills , and Elizabeth Losh . The task force also includes Leonardo Flores, David Green, Matthew Kirschenbaum, and A. Lockett. In July 2023, that task force published a  working paper laying out issues, principles, and recommendations related to th...

This is the third Rhetoricity episode guest-hosted by Dr. Derek Handley . It's also part of The Third Annual Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival . The episode was recorded at the 2022 Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, and marks the two-year anniversary of the protests against anti-Black police violence that took place in the summer of 2020. Moderated by Dr. Handley, it fea...

Today's episode was originally broadcast as part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020, but is finding its way to the Rhetoricity feed in full for the first time. Focus on the carnival's theme of "The Digital Future of Rhetoric and Composition," the episode draws on shows like Adventure Time and Lovecraft Country as well as the present and future realities of the COVID pandemic, racism, and...

This episode features an interview with Cedric Burrows conducted by guest interviewer Derek G. Handley . Their conversation focuses on Dr. Burrows' 2020 book Rhetorical Crossover: The Black Presence in White Culture . Along with many other topics, they discuss his writing process, the music and social movements he takes up in his research, the role of personal stories in theoretical writing and Bl...

This episode features guest interviewer Derek G. Handley speaking with Dr. April Baker-Bell . They discuss Dr. Baker-Bell's book Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy as well as her work on such projects as the Black Language Syllabus and "This Ain't Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!" Dr. April Baker-Bell is a transdisciplinary teacher...

This episode features an interview with John R. Gallagher conducted by guest interviewer Sarah Riddick . The interview focuses on Gallagher's 2020 book Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing . Gallagher and Riddick discuss the labor and upkeep involved in the digital writing practices of journalists, Amazon reviewers, and redditors, the methods and questions that inform Gallagher's wo...

This episode features an interview with Tarez Samra Graban , an associate professor in the Department of English at Florida State University. Dr. Graban was also the keynote speaker at Middle Tennessee State University's annual Peck Research on Writing Symposium in February 2020. This interview was recorded just after that keynote, which was titled "Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Transnational Archiv...

This is a short episode to make a quick announcement: Over the last week, a bunch of rhetorically inclined podcasts have been putting out new episodes as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020. Organized by The Big Rhetorical Podcast 's Charles Woods, the carnival's theme was "The Digital Future of Rhetoric and Composition," and its multitudinous episodes will be music to the ears of m...

This episode of Rhetoricity features contributions from four rhetoric scholars: Kati Fargo Ahern , Ben Harley , Lee Pierce , and Rachel Presley . Their pieces address questions asked by previous guest Damien Smith Pfister: "What juxtapositions in rhetorical studies have you found fruitful, generative, aiding in the process of invention or theorizing, and/or what juxtapositions ought we have? Is th...

This episode features an interview with Dr. Ersula J. Ore , recorded at the 2020 Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Ore is the Lincoln Professor of Ethics in the School of Social Transformation and associate professor of African and African American Studies at Arizona State University. Her research explores the suasive strategies of Black Americans as they operate w...

Note: The deadline for submissions has passed. But please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for segments and collaborations, whether related to this call or not! This is more of an invitation than a regular episode. I'm interested in hearing listeners' responses to the question posed by Damien Smith Pfister and Michele Kennerly at the end of the previous episode. Here is that question: W...

Note: Interested in the intersections of rhetoric and sound? The deadline for submissions to the 2020 Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing Conference is Feb. 21! The CFP and submission instructions are available here . This episode features Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister , co-editors of the 2018 collection Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks . The interview, recorded at the 2018 Rhet...

This episode features an interview with Laura Micciche. It was recorded during her visit to Tennessee for the 2019 Peck Research on Writing Symposium . Dr. Micciche was the keynote speaker at the symposium, an annual event hosted by the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Each year, a rhetoric and writing scholar delivers a talk about their research and facilitates a worksh...

For more information on the Rhetoric Society of America's Andrea A. Lunsford Diversity Fund, which is discussed in the introduction to this episode, click here . This episode of Rhetoricity features an interview with Andrea Lunsford , interviewed by Ben Harley as part of the Rhetoric Society of America Oral History Initiative. Over the past year and a half, Rhetoricity host and producer Eric Detwe...

Edit (08/07/2019): The CFP for the 2020 Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing Conference is now live! Check it out here . --- Just in time for the 2019 Computers and Writing Conference , this Rhetoricity episode features . . . an audio recording of Eric Detweiler's 2016 Computers and Writing presentation . A majorly revised reiteration of this presentation came out last year in volume 5 of Textshop...

This episode features an interview with Dr. Ryan Skinnell , assistant professor at San José State University and editor of the recent collection Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump . That collection is the focal point of the episode. This interview was recorded at the 2018 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Because Faking the News...

This episode features Dr. Christine Tulley . Dr. Tulley was the invited speaker at the 2018 Peck Research on Writing Symposium , an annual event hosted by Middle Tennessee State University's Department of English . Each year, the symposium features a rhetoric and writing scholar who gives a keynote talk on their research, then facilitates a workshop based on the classroom applications of that rese...