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My Introductory Blog Entry; Or, How a Rhetoric Prof. Spends Her Summers

Hello, All! It's great to finally join the Blogora after a long time of simply thinking about it. read more

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Guns, Tragedy, and Romanticized History

This video featuring Bill Moyers speaks to the recent events in Aurora, Colorado. Moyers makes some valid points concerning how ridiculously attainable guns our in our country, and how the NRA has...

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Scholarly Behaviors: Conferences vs. Classrooms

I came across a link to this article from _The Chronicle of Higher Ed_ today, and given that I'm currently working out my issues regarding habitus and bodily hexis, I thought I'd...

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A First-generation College Education and Its Discontents

"When I got my M.A., I received congratulations. I also received an exhortation that it was time to get a job and stop this school foolishness, which was clearly a way to avoid a job. When I pulled out...

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Torture Victims Ordered to Pay Contractors

Arguments from CACI include that they were not being directly involved in acts of torture, and that they were not on U.S. soil at the time, and therefore out of U.S. jurisdiction. Yet the bigger...

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Does Tenure Affect Pedagogy?

In case you missed it, The Atlantic's take on the study out of Northwestern that says non-TT faculty outperform TT and tenured faculty when it comes to teaching freshmen undergraduates:...

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Rhetorics of silence

I came across this Daily Kos piece today, a transcript of Pete Seeger's appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee on August 18,...

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Cultural Rhetorics Conference

Announcing the inaugural 2014 Cultural Rhetorics Conference: Entering the Conversation, hosted by the Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at...

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A Cruel Pedagogy

For info on the history and lingering effects of the harmful and destructive Indian schools, this article discusses some of those "archaic" laws that remain on the books:...

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