Welcome, New Faculty
The Institute for Writing and Rhetoric gains five new faculty members this year: Richard Abel, Svetlana (Yana) Grushina, Sarah Bartos Smith, Steven Thompson, and Nicholas B. Van Kley.
[more]The Institute for Writing and Rhetoric gains five new faculty members this year: Richard Abel, Svetlana (Yana) Grushina, Sarah Bartos Smith, Steven Thompson, and Nicholas B. Van Kley.
[more]At their recent national convention, Pi Kappa Delta—the nation's oldest collegiate speech and debate organization—named the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric's Josh Compton the editor of their journal, The Forensic. The Forensic publishes work in argumentation, public speaking, and intercollegiate speech and debate activities.
[more]Contentious debates over immigration reform call scholars to turn their attention to the rhetoric of immigration. Claudia Anguiano, Lecturer in Speech for the Institute for Writing & Rhetoric, centers her scholarship on the ways immigrant populations are defined. In line with other communication studies scholars, Anguiano uses rigorous, critical rhetorical methods to extract the historical dimensions and significance of terminology, thereby broadening our understanding of the role of race and racism in discourses of immigration and social justice.
[more]We are pleased to announce that Dartmouth's Institute for Writing & Rhetoric has been profiled in a special issue of Composition Forum, devoted to writing and transfer. Guest Editor Elizabeth Wardle has assembled several articles on the subject of transfer, including the profile of the Institute.
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