For over a century, Dartmouth students have competed for the annual Benjamin F. Barge and Class of 1866 Prizes for Oratory. This year, nine Dartmouth students delivered original works of oratory in what Speech professor Josh Compton called "a celebration of rhetoric.
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The Institute for Writing and Rhetoric is proud to announce that Professor Josh Compton has won a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation.
[more]The Institute for Writing and Rhetoric is proud to announce that Professor Josh Compton has accepted a tenure-track position in Speech with the Institute.
[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.
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