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Impact Over Optics PodcastIOO Podcast 004 - Eric Lacombe on Purpose Driven LeadershipIn this episode of Impact Over Optics, host Dave Dieffenbach and guest Eric Lacombe delve into the essence of purpose-driven leadership. They explore the importance of understanding one's 'why', effective communication, adapting leadership styles, and the challenges of leading in a remote environment. Eric shares insights from his personal experiences in both professional and family settings, emphasizing the significance of authenticity, curiosity, and building meaningful relationships. The conversation highlights how leadership transcends the workplace and impacts all areas of life.
2025-11-2525 min
RhetoricityRhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth: AfterwordsThis 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 Reames, and Ryan Skinnell. See below for more detailed bios of the panelists. The roundtable focuses on key questions from Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth: what we mean by "post-truth," how it intersects with rhetoric, and what challenges that...
2025-11-1849 minRhetoricityNo End to the Struggle: An Interview with Derek G. HandleyThis 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, he was a Chamberlain Project Fellow in English and Black Studies at Amherst College and a Predoctoral Mellon Fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory Un...
2025-10-0957 minRhetoricitySensitivity, Solidarity, and Higher Education: An Interview with Kendall GerdesThis 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 Conference on College Composition and Communication's 2025 Outstanding Book Award. In addition to Sensitive Rhetorics, Dr. Gerdes coedited the collection Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and has published articles in such journals as Philosophy & Rhetoric, Rhetoric Society Q...
2025-09-2333 minRhetoricityWhere the Writing Is: An Interview with Ashley J. HolmesThis 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 of those books is 2023's Learning on Location, which was also the focus of Dr. Holmes' keynote at the 2024 Peck Research on Writing Symposium, an annual event hosted at Middle Tennessee State University. This interview was recorded during her...
2025-04-1154 minRhetoricityRhetorical, Material, Critical Bodies: An Interview With Christina CedilloThis 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 those populations enact rhetorical presence and engage in rehumanization practices using multimodality and digital technologies. In this episode, she discusses a number of her projects. Those include a 2023 special issue of College Composition and Communication focused on cultural rhetorics that Dr...
2025-03-1458 min
The Take Home PodcastStudents Take Over: Leading on All Fronts with Eric and KathrynThis spring I'm releasing bonus episodes of The Take Home. No new lectures on leadership, instead I'm sharing the amazing podcasts created by the students in my Leadership for Sport Professionals class. In this bonus episode of Season 5, I'm sharing "Leading on All Fronts" which was created and produced by Eric Liao and Kathryn Detweiler. Here are their liner notes: In the premiere and only episode of Leading on All Fronts, hosts Eric and Kathryn explore the critical themes of Inclusive Leadership and Team Leadership from chapters 12 and 16 of Peter G. Northouse's Leadership...
2025-03-1432 minRhetoricityPodcasting in the Classroom: A Roundtable on the Humanities Podcast Network's Teaching ManualThis 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 Kramer, and Harly Ramsey. They discuss how they came to podcasting and teaching podcasts, their respective sections of the manual, and the possibilities and challenges of having students make podcasts in courses in and around the humanities. This episode features a clip from K...
2023-12-1555 minRhetoricity"The Path Chose Me": Keith Gilyard on His Career, Writing, and LegacyThis 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 of African American rhetoric. Keith Gilyard is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University. He formerly was a member of the faculty at Syracuse University and at Medgar Evers...
2023-10-061h 06RhetoricityFood, Feelings, and Other Rhetorical Sensitivities: An Interview with Jennifer LeMesurierThis 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 contemporary racial landscape. Dr. LeMesurier is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Colgate University. Her areas of expertise include bodily and material rhetorics, genre theory, discourse analysis, qualitative research, and affect theory. In addition to Inscrutable Eating, she co-edited...
2023-09-1629 minRhetoricityAI Goes to College: Large Language Models and the Teaching of WritingThis 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 the effects of generative artificial-intelligence tools on the college writing courses. In this episode's roundtable discussion, these task force members clarify some of the terminology around AI technologies, reflect on the process of writing the working paper, and...
2023-08-3059 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationResponsible Pedagogy with Eric DetweilerQuestions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message.Eric Detweiler is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and the director of the public writing and rhetoric program at MTSU. When I saw that Eric had a new book out called Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education, I knew I wanted to talk with him here on the podcast.In the interview, Eric shares the motivation for the book, the problems he sees with the notions of authority and mastery in higher education, and how...
2023-02-2844 min
The Big Rhetorical PodcastEpisode 122: Dr. Eric DetweilerEpisode 122 serves as the Season 8 Premiere of The Big Rhetorical Podcast (TBR Podcast) and features an interview with Dr. Eric Detweiler. Eric Detweiler is an associate professor in the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where he also directs the Public Writing and Rhetoric program. His book Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education was published by Penn State University Press in 2022. His work has also appeared inRhetoric Review, Pedagogy, Tuning in to Soundwriting, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and he runs a podcast about rhetoric called Rhetoricity. In addition to rhetoric and writing pedagogy...
2023-01-311h 05
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2022-08-2853 minRhetoricityRhetoricians Assemble: A Roundtable of Black Rhetoric FacultyThis 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 features a roundtable of Black rhetoricians: Tamika Carey, David Green, Andre Johnson, Ersula Ore, and Gwendolyn Pough. They share the paths and choices that led them to become rhetoric scholars, reflect on the limitations of antiracist initiatives...
2022-08-241h 25
Break Away from the Rat RaceAsset Protection and Loopholes of Real Estate with Garrett SuttonGarett Sutton is an attorney, best-selling author and one of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Advisors. Garrett has over thirty-five years’ experience in assisting individuals and businesses to limit their liability, protect their assets, implement advantageous corporate structures and advance their financial goals.
Garett Sutton is an attorney, best-selling author and one of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Advisors. Garrett has over thirty-five years’ experience in assisting individuals and businesses to limit their liability, protect their assets, implement advantageous corporate structures and advance their financial goals. A clear and engaging writer, Garrett authors various books that demystify legal top...
2022-07-0232 min
PedagogueEpisode 107: Eric DetweilerIn this episode, Eric Detweiler talks about digital rhetoric and media, teaching video games and podcasting, assessing multimodal assignments, and his forthcoming book titled Responsible Pedagogy.
2022-04-0625 min
The Podcast of PodcastsS1/E5 -- Dr. Eric Detweiler of RhetoricityA PDF Transcript of this episode is available here. Each episode in season 1 interviews an academic podcast in the fields of Rhetoric, Writing, and Composition or Communications. This episode is with guest Dr. Eric Detweiler, an Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and the host of Rhetoricity.
2022-01-1444 minRhetoricityFutures in the Present TenseToday'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 climate change to consider what our disciplinary futures might hold. This episode includes clips and quotations from the following: "Come Along With Me" – Adventure Time The Fire Next Time – James Bald...
2021-11-0124 min
Ceaselessly Into the PastThey Were Conspiring TogetherEric reads the twenty-seventh-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-09-2603 minCeaselessly Into the PastTwo Stale, Dry CigarettesEric reads the twenty-sixth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-09-2503 minCeaselessly Into the PastBroken Up Like GlassEric reads the twenty-fifth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-09-1703 minCeaselessly Into the PastWealth Imprisons and PreservesEric reads the twenty-fourth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-09-1304 minCeaselessly Into the PastSumming Up the SadnessEric reads the twenty-third-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-09-1103 minCeaselessly Into the PastTo Save a FragmentEric reads the twenty-second-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-09-1003 minCeaselessly Into the PastConcealing His Incorruptible DreamEric reads the twenty-first-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-09-0903 minCeaselessly Into the PastSilence for a MomentEric reads the twentieth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-08-3103 minCeaselessly Into the PastMyrtle Wilson's Tragic AchievementEric reads the nineteenth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-08-3103 minCeaselessly Into the PastWrapped in Tissue PaperEric reads the eighteenth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-08-2903 minCeaselessly Into the PastDawn Wasn't Far OffEric reads the seventeenth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-08-2803 minCeaselessly Into the PastNodding into the TwilightEric reads the sixteenth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-08-2204 minCeaselessly Into the PastThe Shadows of WavesEric reads the fifteenth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-08-2004 minRhetoricityCrossing Over with Cedric BurrowsThis 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 Black intellectual traditions, and how he decided to pursue a career in rhetoric and composition. Dr. Burrows is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Marquette University. In addition to being the author of Rhetorical...
2021-06-0155 minRhetoricityDemanding Black Linguistic Justice: An Interview with April Baker-BellThis 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-researcher-activist and Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and English Education in the Department of English and Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. A national leader in conversations on Black Language education, her research interrogates...
2021-04-111h 02RhetoricityWriting After Writing: An Interview with John GallagherThis 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 work, and that work's implications for scholarly writing. John Gallagher is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He studies interfaces, digital rhetoric, participatory audiences, and technical communication. He has been published in Computers and Composition, enculturation, Rhetoric...
2021-04-0736 minCeaselessly Into the PastOpen-Mouthed About the PoolEric reads the fourteenth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-03-0603 minCeaselessly Into the PastGet Somebody for MeEric reads the thirteenth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-02-2803 minCeaselessly Into the PastThe Connection Was BrokenEric reads the twelfth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-02-2703 minCeaselessly Into the PastIsolated and Unpunctual TearsEric reads the eleventh-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-02-2603 min2021-02-2503 min2021-02-2303 minRhetoricityUnflattening Global Rhetorics and Archival Pedagogies: An Interview with Tarez Samra GrabanThis 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 Archive." In this interview, Dr. Graban discusses her work on global and transnational rhetorics, archival methods, and rethinking the role and structure of rhetoric and writing majors at US universities. In particular, we discuss four of her projects. First, Alternative...
2021-02-2341 min2021-02-2303 min2021-02-1204 minCeaselessly Into the PastA Worried, Uncertain WayEric reads the sixth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-01-3003 min2021-01-2303 minCeaselessly Into the PastA Quality of DistortionEric reads the fourth-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-01-1903 min2021-01-1603 minCeaselessly Into the PastScrawled By Some BoyEric reads the second-to-last page of The Great Gatsby.
2021-01-1403 min2021-01-1303 minRhetoricityThe Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020This 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 many Rhetoricity listeners. You can find those episodes via The Big Rhetorical Podcast's Anchor page or Twitter account. In addition to plugging the carnival, this episode features a clip from Rhetoricity's contribution...
2020-09-0108 min
NeighborsLeaving The Du BarryAccording to a July study from the Pew Research Center, around 3% of Americans have moved because of COVID-19, many of them adults who moved back in with their parents. One of those people is Theo Greenly, a writer and radio producer in Los Angeles. When the pandemic hit, both he and his partner lost their jobs. Unsure about when they would start working again, they decided to move in with family to save money. Specifically, to move in with Theo’s mom in the house that he lived in during high school. Theo documented the process, and he produced th...
2020-08-2800 minThe Big Rhetorical PodcastRhetoricity: TBR Podcast Carnival EpisodeThis special episode for The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival comes from the podcast "Rhetoricity" and it's host Eric Detweiler. In this podcast carnival episode, Eric discusses the digital future of rhetoric and composition, which is the theme for the carnival. Make sure to listen to other Rhetoricity episodes https://rhetoricity.libsyn.com, and follow the podcast on Twitter @RhetCast.
2020-08-2422 min
NeighborsThe Hadley Park Line DancersMeet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Community Center in North Nashville. For Joann, the group has become like a family. The community she's found there has helped her overcome loneliness, grief, and serious health issues. But this year, a tornado and a pandemic are testing the group's bond more than ever.
special thanks to Joann Jones, Sharon Jarrett, and all of the Hadley Park Line Dancers. Here is a link to The Hadley Line Dancers Facebook page: h...
2020-08-1400 min
NeighborsNeighbors presents: ResettledFor this episode Neighbors is presenting an episode from the show Resettled from VPM:
Not a lot of teens are excited about being the “different” kid that stands out in high school. As a Muslim teen from Iraq, Fatimah is learning to navigate that typical experience: striking the balance between fitting in and being your own person. In her senior year at Harrisonburg High, Fatimah decided to try out for the school play, which pushed her boundaries around sexuality and acceptance.
Harrisonburg, Virginia is unique as well: there are 51 countries and 57 languages represented in Harrisonburg’s publ...
2020-07-3100 min
NeighborsSunday Night SoulNashville, Tenn., aka Music City, has thrown a lot of money at its own tourism industry. But if you walk country music’s famed Broadway Street you will notice that these tourist spaces are overwhelmingly white. But just across the river every 2nd and 4th Sunday night of the month you can reliably find an alternative to the country music scene in town via soul music acts put together by Jason Eskridge. You can also find something else that’s a rarity in Nashville—a racially diverse crowd.
This story was produced by Cariad Harmon. Editing and story...
2020-07-1700 minRhetoricityRhetorical JuxtapositionsThis 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 there a juxtaposition of two things that we ought to explore but we're not currently exploring?" The contributors respond to Pfister's questions from a variety of angles, touching on memoir, sonic rhetorics, everyday life, visual rhetoric, discriminatory design, cartography, and...
2020-07-1443 minRhetoricityRace, Motive, and the Rhetoric of Display: An Interview with Ersula OreThis 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 within a post-emancipation historical context, giving particular attention to the ways physical and discursive violence influences performances of citizenship. Dr. Ore received the 2018-2019 Outstanding Mentor award from Arizona State's Center for Global Health, and her book Lynching: Vi...
2020-06-2959 min
The Write NotesWe Stan Carly Rae jepsen with Eric DetweilerThis week our guest is Eric Detweiler, a scholar of rhetoric and composition and the host of Rhetoricity a podcast about rhetoric, composition, and writing.
Eric created a fabulous playlist that is available here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6y1UIb3e20bwJpOG51sW0n?si=hi2WAFTuSLK_JEv1l926Qg
Also, check out Rhetoricity here: https://rhetoricity.libsyn.com
2020-06-1855 min
Greater Rockville Chamber of Commerce PodcastThe Rockville Real Estate ExchangeIn this episode Eric interviews Andrew Detweiler, founder and licensed broker of The Rockville Real Estate Exchange. The Rockville Real Estate Exchange is a local real estate brokerage, as well as an online marketing platform for small businesses in the area.They are the first real estate brokerage in the country where you can read about every neighborhood – including apartments – in a major metropolitan area, see what’s for sale and what’s for rent at each location, and as desired, contact a neighborhood expert specializing in that community.CONTACT INFORMATIONAndrew DetweilerFounder...
2020-04-1509 minRhetoricityCall for Rhetorical JuxtapositionsNote: 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: 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 there...
2020-03-1903 minRhetoricityThe Available Memes of Persuasion: Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith PfisterNote: 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 Rhetoric Society of America conference, focuses on that collection. Kennerly and Pfister discuss the important distinction between "ancient" and "classical" rhetoric, the challenges and possibilities of linking ancient rhetorics to digital networks, and the rhetorical and civic power of internet memes.
2020-02-1747 minRhetoricityLittle Worlds About Writing: An Interview with Laura MiccicheThis 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 workshop based on that research. This year's symposium will take place on February 28, and will also host the annual meeting of MidSouth WPA, an affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Laura Micciche is...
2020-01-2141 minRhetoricityRhetoric, She Wrote: Andrea Lunsford on the Discipline and its HistoriesFor 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 Detweiler has been coordinating that initiative. At its 2018 conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) celebrated its 50th anniversary. As a part of that celebration, the organization sponsored the Oral History Initiative...
2019-12-0227 minRhetoricityThe Weird Possibilities of Academic PodcastingEdit (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 Experiments. In short, this episode/presentation makes the case for embracing weirder conventions in academic podcasting, drawing on the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale as a model. Because the episode is a recording of a...
2019-06-1927 minRhetoricityTrumped-Up Rhetoric: An Interview with Ryan SkinnellThis 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 is meant to speak to audiences beyond academia, we tried to approach the interview in a way that would be accessible for those who don't have advanced degrees in rhetoric and writing. We discuss w...
2019-01-2836 minRhetoricityWriting Our Discipline, Writing Ourselves: An Interview with Christine TulleyThis 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 research. This interview was recorded the day before Dr. Tulley's talk, which focused on the findings of her recent book, How Writing Faculty Write: Strategies for Process, Product, and Productivity. That book features interviews with fifteen prolific...
2018-10-2544 minRhetoricityDissertation Dialogues, Vol. 3: John Schilb and Collin BjorkThis 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 Collin Bjork and Dr. John Schilb. Collin Bjork is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at IU. His dissertation develops a theoretical framework for better understanding how rhetoric functions over time. His article "Integrating Usability Testing and Digital Rhetoric in Online Writing Instruction" just came out in a special issue of Computers and Composition. He has taught courses in sonic rhetoric, visual rhetoric, service-learning...
2018-10-0238 minRhetoricityDissertation Dialogues, Vol. 2: Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Dana AndersonThis 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 particular episode features Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Dana Anderson. Jennifer Juszkiewicz is a PhD candidate at IU who studies composition theory and rhetorics of space and place. Her dissertation focuses on simultaneously digital and material locations where writing happens. She'll be defending that dissertation in the coming academic year, during which she'll also be joining the faculty at St. Mary's College in Notre...
2018-08-2132 minRhetoricityDissertation Dialogues, Vol. 1: Scot Barnett and Caddie AlfordThis 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 attended that institute. Those students also pitched another idea: a series of conversations between PhD candidates and their dissertation advisors. This episode features the first of those conversations. My hope is that these episodes, which are more akin to dialogues than interviews, will not only give listeners a sense of the interlocutors' research interests, but provide a window into the advisee-advisor relationship. To that...
2018-08-0741 minRhetoricityMultimodality Pulling into a Station: Jonathan Alexander and Jackie RhodesThis 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 Writing and Rhetoric as well as Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Publics, Identities. In this episode, we discuss two of their other collaborative projects: On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies and Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self. Techne won the 2015 Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship. Beyond their co-creations, Jonathan Alexander is the Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the U...
2018-05-301h 00RhetoricityLichtenberg: A Cross-SectionThis episode of Rhetoricity is a collaboration with Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric's Change, the digital proceedings collection from the 2016 Rhetoric Society of America conference. You can download a free copy of this open-access collection via Intermezzo or Parlor Press. In 2014, Verso Books published Radio Benjamin, which contained English translations of radio plays that critical theorist Walter Benjamin helped write and produce in the 1920s and '30s. I was fascinated with these plays as a sort of precursor to the audio projects scholars and theorists are producing today. So at RSA 2016, rather than give a traditional academic presentation...
2018-05-0817 minRhetoricityRhetoric and the Art of Bicycle Racing: An Interview with Bill Hart-DavidsonIn this episode, which was recorded at the 2017 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, guest interviewer Jennifer Juszkiewicz speaks with Michigan State University's Bill Hart-Davidson. They discuss the relationship between technical communication and rhetoric, the challenges of revision and the related work of Eli Review, and what the ancient Greek practice of agon has to do with riding a bike. Special thanks to Ryan Juszkiewicz, who manned the audio controls and took the lead on mixing and editing this interview. Dr. Hart-Davidson is a professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State...
2018-03-1348 minRhetoricityPlanting Rhetoric's Future: An Interview with John MuckelbauerThis episode is the first in a series recorded at the 2017 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute in Bloomington, Indiana. The interviews featured in these episodes were conducted by graduate students who are part of Indiana University's Rhetoric Society of America student chapter. First up is an interview with John Muckelbauer conducted by Caddie Alford. John Muckelbauer is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where he has taught for thirteen years. He's the author of the book The Future of Invention: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change. His writing has also appeared i...
2018-01-2423 minRhetoricityTalking #TacoLiteracy with Steven AlvarezThis episode features an interview with Dr. Steven Alvarez, an assistant professor in the English Department at St. John's University. The interview was recorded at the 2017 Modern Language Association Convention, where Alvarez gave a presentation entitled "Taco Literacies: Translingual Foodways Writing in the Bluegrass." He has also published on the topic in the journal Composition Forum. If you're interested in learning more about his research and teaching on taco literacy, you can check out this website, this Instagram hashtag, and this recent Remezcla article. In addition to studying the relationships between food and literacy, Dr. Alvarez is...
2018-01-0438 minRhetoricityCFP: Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and WritingNOTE: THE SYMPOSIUM HAS PASSED, BUT THE CFP REMAINS HERE FOR SONIC POSTERITY. This is not a typical episode of Rhetoricity. No, this is a call for proposals for the Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing. A written version of this CFP is available below, and it's also available as a Google Doc here. Scroll to the bottom of this post for the audio version. Call for Proposals: Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing ***UPDATE (12/11/17): Out of respect for the slew of deadlines that comes with the end of a semester...
2017-07-1005 minRhetoricityCollaborating on Digital Rhetoric: A RoundtableThis episode of Rhetoricity brings you something a little different. It's not an interview with one person, but a roundtable discussion featuring five members of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC): Naomi Silver, Jenae Cohn, Brandy Dieterle, Paula Miller, and Adrienne Raw. Dr. Silver is the associate director of the University of Michigan's Sweetland Center for Writing, which supports the DRC. The rest of the roundtable participants were DRC graduate fellows at the time of this conversation. At the 2016 Computers and Writing Conference in Rochester, New York, where this episode was recorded, the DRC won the Computers...
2017-06-0336 minRhetoricityDonnie Johnson Sackey on Racial and Environmental JusticeThis episode features an episode with Donnie Johnson Sackey, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Wayne State University. Dr. Sackey is a senior researcher with Detroit Integrated Vision for Environmental Research through Science and Engagement (D•VERSE), an affiliated researcher in Michigan State University's Writing, Information, and Digital Experience (WIDE) Research Center, and an executive board member of the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition. His research centers on environmental public policy deliberation, environmental justice, and environmental cultural history. His work has appeared in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Computers and Composition, and the collection Rhetoric, Th...
2017-05-2535 minRhetoricityMonkeying Around with New Materialism: An Interview with Laurie GriesThis episode features an interview with Laurie Gries. Dr. Gries is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Communication and the Program of Writing and Rhetoric. Laurie Gries researches visual rhetoric, circulation studies, research methodologies, new materialism, and the digital humanities. She's the author of the book Still Life With Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics, which won the Conference on College Composition and Communication's 2016 Advancement of Knowledge Award and 2016 Research Impact Award. Her work has also appeared in the journals Computers and Composition...
2017-05-1844 minRhetoricityRhetoricity Revisited: An Interview with Diane DavisThis episode features an interview with Diane Davis, who also appeared in Rhetoricity's first episode and directed the dissertation of this podcast's host. (This interview was in fact recorded the same day that dissertation was defended.) More significantly, Dr. Davis is a professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Texas at Austin and will serve as chair of that department beginning in fall 2017. She is also the Kenneth Burke Chair and Professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy at The European Graduate School. She's the author of Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of...
2017-03-1435 minRhetoricityThe Source Awakens: An Interview with Derek MuellerRhetoricity returns, coming to you from its new home base: Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee! MTSU's Department of English hosts an annual event called the Peck Research on Writing Symposium. In 2016, that symposium featured a presentation by Dr. Derek Mueller, Associate Professor of Written Communication and Director of the First-Year Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. This episode features an interview recorded during his visit. Mueller's work has appeared in the journals College Composition and Communication, Composition Forum, Kairos, and Present Tense. He has two forthcoming book projects: Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies and Network...
2017-02-1648 minRhetoricityProgymnasmata RoboticaIn this episode, Eric tries to discuss the limits of rhetorical mastery as well as a series of rhetorical exercises called the progymnasmata. Then a few unexpected guests show up and things take a posthuman turn. This episode includes brief clips from the following: 2001: A Space Odyssey Alien The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Ex Machina Blade Runner Futurama Star Wars: A New Hope Terminator 2: Judgement Day and freesound.org
2016-06-0313 minRhetoricityThe Value of Rhetoric and Composition: An Interview with Joyce Locke CarterThis episode of Rhetoricity is a rebroadcast of a 2014 interview with Joyce Locke Carter, associate professor at Texas Tech University and chair of the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Originally, the interview was conducted for and published by the Digital Writing and Research Lab's Zeugma podcast. This week, Dr. Carter will be giving the CCCC chair's address in Houston, Texas. Because she discusses her address and the role of CCCC chairs in this interview, now seemed like a relevant time to circulate it again. Dr. Carter's address is entitled “Making, Disrupting, Innovating,” and will explore strategies for maki...
2016-04-0618 minRhetoricitySensational Sounds: Steph Ceraso on Sonic Composition & PedagogyThis episode of Rhetoricity features Steph Ceraso. Dr. Ceraso is currently an assistant professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Starting in fall 2016, she'll be taking a position as Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Dr. Ceraso contributed the entry on "Sound" to the Modern Language Association's "Keywords in Digital Pedagogy" project, and she presented as part of a panel entitled "Writing with Sound" at the 2016 MLA convention. She's written multiple posts for the blog Sounding Out!, contributed a multimodal piece entitled "A Tale of Two S...
2016-04-0530 minRhetoricityByron Hawk on the Shape of Composition to ComeThis Rhetoricity episode takes a return trip to the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas. At the convention, Dr. Byron Hawk presided over a session called "Writing with Sound." In this episode, Dr. Hawk discusses his work at the entangled intersections of sound, composition, writing, and the rhetorical. Byron Hawk is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina. Hawk is the author of A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, and his work has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, Enculturation, Kairos, and PRE/TEXT. His current book project...
2016-03-0336 minRhetoricityLibraries, Videos, Bodies: An Interview with Virginia KuhnThis episode of Rhetoricity comes to you from the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas. At the convention, I spoke with the University of Southern California's Virginia Kuhn. Dr. Kuhn is an associate professor in the Media Arts + Practice Division of USC's School of Cinematic Arts. In this interview, we discuss three of Dr. Kuhn's recent and ongoing projects: First, the Library Machine, which was until recently known as "LibViz." That project is the third case study in a recent article coauthored by Dr. Kuhn: "Coping with the Big Data Dump: Towards a Framework for Enhanced...
2016-02-1039 minRhetoricitySubalternity and Transnational Literacy: An Interview with Raka ShomeAt the 2015 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, Raka Shome led a three-day workshop entitled "'Subalternity' and 'Transnational Literacy': The Significance of Gayatri Spivak's Scholarship for Rhetoric and Communication Studies." In this episode of Rhetoricity, Dr. Shome explores how the work of Spivak, an influential feminist and postcolonial scholar, might speak to scholarship in the fields of rhetoric and communication.
First, Dr. Shome discusses the two key terms referenced in the workshop's title: "subalternity" and "transnational literacy." She argues that Spivak's work on subalternity takes up matters of voice and power--issues that rhetoric and...
2016-01-2016 minRhetoricityRhetoric's Algorithms: Jim Brown and Annette VeeThis episode of Rhetoricity features not one but two interviewees: Drs. Annette Vee and Jim Brown, who together led a workshop called "Rhetoric's Algorithms" at the 2015 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute in Madison, Wisconsin. They're also co-editing a forthcoming issue of the journal Computational Culture that will focus on rhetoric and computation.
Annette Vee is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in such journals as Computers and Composition, Enculturation, and Computational Culture. She's also the author of the book Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing...
2015-11-1028 minRhetoricityGlitching Out with Casey BoyleThis episode of Rhetoricity features an interview with Casey Boyle, an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Boyle's work has appeared in such anthologies as Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities and Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition. He serves as assistant editor for Enculturation: A Journal of Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture and has forthcoming articles in both College English and Technical Communication Quarterly. At UT-Austin, Dr. Boyle teaches courses on writing with sound, digital rhetoric, and network theory. He is currently co-editing an anthology entitled Rhetoric, T...
2015-10-2733 minRhetoricityTransnational Writing and Global Citizenship: An Interview with Shyam SharmaIn this episode of Rhetoricity, I talk with Shyam Sharma about global citizenship, transnational writing, and the globalization of writing classrooms.
Dr. Sharma is an assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Stony Brook University in New York. His research focuses on writing in the disciplines, but he also studies translingualism and multilingualism, cross-cultural rhetoric, and multimodality in writing studies. He is currently working on a book project about international graduate students in the U.S. and has a piece in the September 2015 issue of College Composition and Communication.
In this interview, which was conducted...
2015-10-0517 minRhetoricityDigital Scholarship, Digital Pedagogy: An Interview with Justin HodgsonThis episode of Rhetoricity, recorded at the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication, features an interview with Dr. Justin Hodgson. Hodgson is an assistant professor at Indiana University. He serves as general editor for the Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects and is currently working on a book project entitled New Aesthetics, New Rhetorics. In spring 2015, he and Dr. Scot Barnett organized and hosted the Indiana Digital Rhetoric Symposium (IDRS). We begin by talking about what distinguishes (and doesn't distinguish) "digital rhetoric" from the "digital humanities." From there, Dr. Hodgson discusses what he hoped would happen at IDRS...
2015-09-2127 minRhetoricityUnsound Theory and Sonic PracticesThis installment of Rhetoricity zags away from the interview format of the last few episodes. Instead, I'm bringing you a response to a question I've started getting from a handful of rhetoric and composition scholars: what technologies do I use to put this podcast together?
Rather than jumping straight into a pile of microphones, though, I begin with some brief thoughts on the rhetorical decisions that can go into how and why a podcast sounds the way it does.
After running through some very quick notes on the history and politics of podcasting (and why...
2015-06-3020 minRhetoricityRadio Free Vitanza: Number TwoThis is the second half of a two-part interview with Victor Vitanza, the Jean-Francois Lyotard Chair at the European Graduate School and a Professor of English and Rhetoric at Clemson University. You can find the first half here. The interview was conducted at the 2014 Rhetoric Society of America conference in San Antonio, Texas, and originally published as part of the Zeugma podcast's 2014 summer interview series.
In this half of the interview, Vitanza discusses the futures of Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, including upcoming issues on "cat theory," Geoffrey Sirc, and the Italian writer Mario Untersteiner. I...
2015-06-0314 minRhetoricityRadio Free Vitanza: Number OneThis episode of Rhetoricity features an interview with Victor Vitanza, the Jean-Francois Lyotard Chair at the European Graduate School and a Professor of English and Rhetoric at Clemson University. The interview was conducted at the 2014 Rhetoric Society of America conference in San Antonio, Texas, and originally published as part of the Zeugma podcast's 2014 summer interview series.
Dr. Vitanza founded the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) program at Clemson, has written such books as Negation, Subjectivity, and the History of Rhetoric and Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing, and serves as editor of Pre/Text: A J...
2015-06-0331 minRhetoricityA Discourse on Entropy with Collin BrookeThis episode of Rhetoricity finds me interviewing Collin Brooke. In March 2015, Dr. Brooke was the featured speaker at The University of Texas at Austin's Digital Writing and Research Lab's annual Speaker Series. He was kind enough to sit down for two interviews--one for the lab and one for this podcast. In some ways, this interview builds on the other one; if you're interested in a little more context and conversation, then, you can find that lab interview here.
Brooke is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing at Syracuse University, the Director of Electronic Resources for the...
2015-05-2016 minRhetoricityThe Outer Limits of Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Laurence RickelsIn February, Laurence Rickels stopped by Austin, Texas. Dr. Rickels, who is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School as well as Professor of Art and Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany, was in town as part of the tour for his latest book: Germany: A Science Fiction. During his visit, he also swung by UT-Austin's Digital Writing and Research Lab and was generous enough to sit down for the following interview.In his new book, Rickels focuses on psychopathy as, quote, "the undeclared diagnosis implied in flunking the em...
2015-05-0531 minRhetoricityOn Awfulness: An Interview with Jenny RiceIn this episode of Rhetoricity, I interview Dr. Jenny Rice, an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. In addition to appearing on this podcast's episode on small talk, Dr. Rice has made extensive contributions to rhetorical studies: she's the author of the book Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis as well as articles in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Argumentation and Advocacy, College Composition and Communication, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly (RSQ, for short). She'll also be co-chairing the 2016 Rhetoric Society of America conference in Atlanta, Georgia....
2015-04-2020 minRhetoricityThe Exemplary Sharon CrowleyThis episode features an interview with Dr. Sharon Crowley, an accomplished rhetoric scholar and winner of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's 2015 Exemplar Award. Dr. Crowley is the author of Composition in the University: Historical and Polemical Essays, Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism, and coauthor of the rhetoric textbook Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. In this episode, special guest interviewer Kendall Gerdes talks with Crowley about the recent history of rhetoric as a discipline, her advice for rhetoric graduate students, and what she's been reading lately. They even take a moment to talk about t...
2015-04-0921 minRhetoricitySmall Talk: The Final FrontierSmall talk: it's both part of the lifeblood and part of the awkwardness of academic conferences. "Is your hometown treating you well?" "How about this weather?" "When did you get in?" The questions and answers are almost predetermined. Pushing the boundaries of this chatter, one might say, is a rhetorical project, and so this episode features two rhetoric scholars doing just that. Nathaniel Rivers (St. Louis University) and Jenny Rice (University of Kentucky) try out an array of alternate small-talk topoi, from questions about crying to old-timey firefighters to blood.
This and all other Rhetoricity episodes are...
2015-03-2522 minRhetoricityWhat Isn't Rhetoricity?In this episode, I explore the concept from which this podcast derives its title and part of its inspiration: rhetoricity. In keeping with a spirit of weirdness, I pursue this by asking a few rhetoric scholars--Diane Davis, Will Burdette, Steven LeMieux--the following question: what isn't rhetoricity? This and all other Rhetoricity episodes are also available on iTunes and Stitcher.
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