This Rhetorical Life

This Rhetorical Life


Latest Episodes

Episode 23: Women Scholars of Computers & Writing
September 26, 2014

Even as I sort of talk about the notion of community, though, I think that it’s important to problematize that emphasis because it suggests a homogeneity that may inadvertently exclude other voices or presume that a gender issue isn’t also a race issue,

Episode 22: (Social) Media Representations of Venezuela Protests
May 27, 2014

[T]he danger of [sharing posts] is getting swept up when there’s this frantic information exchange, and you find yourself endorsing values and agendas that you would not normally agree with, and that’s a little bit scary.

Episode 21: Reflections on Latin@ Rhetorics
May 09, 2014

“The ethos of Latina/o Rhetoric is embodied in many of the traditions of resistance that link back to first contact with Europeans in the Americas spanning across time and space to current moments and sites of resistance.

Episode 20: Thinking Collectively about Academic Labor
April 23, 2014

A lot of times, contingent faculty do an incredible job of being incredibly professional in unprofessional working conditions. I think that’s the first big cost: the humanity and the economic stability of those folks who are in contingent positions—man...

Episode 19: Visual Disciplinography with Derek Mueller
February 28, 2014

"I’m looking at ways to maybe write the field, to re-write the field, and to continue to write the field. To update it essentially, to continue pushing for its visibility, but to do so in ways that ever so slightly estrange it from—and maybe even estra...

Episode 18: Rhetorical Listening with Krista Ratcliffe
February 07, 2014

I didn’t really want people taking a stance of feeling responsible for racism. We were all born into a system where that preexisted all of us, but to what extent are we accountable for the now? Episode 18 features an interview with Krista Ratcliffe wh

Episode 17: Mindfulness and Composition with Gesa Kirsch
January 17, 2014

I teach one course where I focus on sense of place and really look at environmental or urban planning issues, eventually large problem spaces as I would call them, but they often begin from a personal journey: where the sidewalk ends in front of your hous

Episode 16: A One-Woman Show with Elaine Richardson
December 04, 2013

[P]eople say things around you all the time that make you feel like you’re not normal, and so even though people probably look at that, “Well how can you say that you loved a pimp?” Or, “How could you even think that a pimp loved you?” Like I s

Episode 15: The Politics of Pedagogy with Naeem Inayatullah
November 15, 2013

We want to enact social justice in our classrooms. We try to do this by considering diverse student bodies, incorporating multimodality into our classrooms, developing equitable assessment, and so much more. What about participation and democracy? Even i

Episode 14: Interview with Cristina Ramirez
November 01, 2013

So we’re starting by defining the topic or the term of latina. Who is being included in that? Then we’re looking at questions of who are we going to include? Why are we going to include them? And which works are significant and important in talking ab