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 Podc

"The Path Chose Me": Keith Gilyard on His Career, Writing, and Legacy

Oct 6th, 2023 1h 6m

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, w

Food, Feelings, and Other Rhetorical Sensitivities: An Interview with Jennifer LeMesurier

Sep 16th, 2023 29m 42s

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 Ra

AI Goes to College: Large Language Models and the Teaching of Writing

Aug 30th, 2023 59m 10s

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 Ki

Rhetoricians Assemble: A Roundtable of Black Rhetoric Faculty

Aug 24th, 2022 1h 25m

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

Futures in the Present Tense

Nov 1st, 2021 24m 11s

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 Compos

Futures in the Present Tense

Nov 1st, 2021 24m 11s

Today's episode was originally broadcast as part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020, but it finding its way to the Rhetoricity feed in full for the first time. Focused on the carnival's theme, "The Digital Future of Rhetoric and Compos

Crossing Over with Cedric Burrows

Jun 1st, 2021 55m 59s

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

Demanding Black Linguistic Justice: An Interview with April Baker-Bell

Apr 11th, 2021 1h 2m

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 Bla

Writing After Writing: An Interview with John Gallagher

Apr 6th, 2021 36m 29s

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

Unflattening Global Rhetorics and Archival Pedagogies: An Interview with Tarez Samra Graban

Feb 23rd, 2021 41m 56s

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

The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020

Aug 31st, 2020 8m 59s

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 Podcas

Rhetorical Juxtapositions

Jul 14th, 2020 43m

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

Race, Motive, and the Rhetoric of Display: An Interview with Ersula Ore

Jun 29th, 2020 59m 54s

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 profe

Call for Rhetorical Juxtapositions

Mar 19th, 2020 3m 30s

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

The Available Memes of Persuasion: Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister

Feb 17th, 2020 47m 47s

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 Mich

Little Worlds About Writing: An Interview with Laura Micciche

Jan 21st, 2020 41m 39s

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 Departme

Rhetoric, She Wrote: Andrea Lunsford on the Discipline and its Histories

Dec 2nd, 2019 27m 43s

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

The Weird Possibilities of Academic Podcasting

Jun 19th, 2019 27m 46s

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 o

Trumped-Up Rhetoric: An Interview with Ryan Skinnell

Jan 28th, 2019 36m 36s

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 poin

Writing Our Discipline, Writing Ourselves: An Interview with Christine Tulley

Oct 25th, 2018 44m 54s

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 feature

Dissertation Dialogues, Vol. 3: John Schilb and Collin Bjork

Oct 2nd, 2018 38m 11s

This is the final episode in Rhetoricity's "Dissertation Dialogues" series, which features conversations between PhD students at Indiana University and some of their dissertation directors and committee members. This particular episode features

Dissertation Dialogues, Vol. 2: Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Dana Anderson

Aug 21st, 2018 32m 8s

This is the second episode in a late-summer series: the Dissertation Dialogues. These episodes feature conversations between PhD candidates from Indiana University and some of their dissertation mentors. For more context, check out Vol. 1. This

Dissertation Dialogues, Vol. 1: Scot Barnett and Caddie Alford

Aug 7th, 2018 41m 55s

This is the first in a series of special late-summer episodes of Rhetoricity. At the 2017 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, some graduate students at Indiana University helped coordinate and conduct interviews with scholars who atte

Multimodality Pulling into a Station: Jonathan Alexander and Jackie Rhodes

May 30th, 2018 1h

This episode features two interviewees: Dr. Jonathan Alexander and Dr. Jackie Rhodes. Rhodes and Alexander are not only prolific writers and media makers, but prolific collaborators. Together, they’ve edited The Routledge Handbook of Digital Wr