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Areas of StudyRhetoric and CompositionThe Rhetoric and Composition Program is integral to a department that focuses on writing as the common ground of studies in literature, creative writing, and rhetoric, and to a university that makes writing across the curriculum a priority. Faculty publish widely in rhetoric, composition, and writing in the disciplines and specialize in areas such as new media studies, feminist studies, visual culture, and critical histories and theories of the field. The rhetoric and composition faculty emphasize professional and disciplinary development in their work with graduate students. As a graduate student at MU, you will join ongoing conversations in writing studies, new media, cultural theory, and rhetorical theory. In addition, you will also have an opportunity to extend your rhet/comp study to related programs within the English Department and College of Liberal Arts. These include the literary fields, lingistics, Black Diaspora Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Folklore and Oral Tradition, Communications, and creative writing. You can also explore, Artifacts, our online journal of undergraduate writing. FundingAs a graduate student in the Rhetoric and Composition program, you have the opportunity to work in the Writing Lab and to teach a variety of writing courses. Incoming students are also eligible for the Winifred Bryan Horner Fellowship, as well as one of the four PhD fellowships awarded each year by the English Department. Faculty StrengthsRebecca Dingo holds a join appointment in Women's and Gender Studies and English. She teaches courses on rhetorical and feminist theory, transnational studies, and visual culture. She recently taught a graduate seminar called "Rhetoric + Transnationalism," which introduced transnationalism as a material, social, political, and cultural reality that unevenly impacts people across the globe and considered the significance of transnationalism for rhetorical studies. Her seminars tend to draw from interdisciplinary work in the fields of literature, anthropology, sociology, geography, political science, and women's studies. Rebecca also works to help graduate students navigate the fields of rhetoric, composition, and women's studies by holding formal "mini-conferences" where students present their work in front of a public audience, assisting them in writing conference proposals, and inviting them to attend and help organize workshops at national conferences. Jenny Edbauer Rice teaches courses in public rhetorics, the history of rhetoric, and critical theory. She is especially interested in questions of public discourse and material culture. Her graduate seminar "Rhetorics and Poetics" examines the relationship between style and substance (or what Richard Lanham calls "stuff and fluff"). Her seminars frequently cross disciplinary boundaries by drawing on research in communication studies, philosophy, and anthropology. Marty Patton specializes in writing in the disciplines, particularly in the sciences, although she teaches a range of courses in writing, women's literature, and the humanities. Her rhetoric of science course looks closely at the construction and translation of some seminal arguments, including Darwin's Origin of the Species and Carson's Silent Spring. Her qualitative research focuses on writing in disciplinary cultures or "activity systems." Jeff Rice is Director of the Campus Writing Program. He teaches courses in pedagogy, new media, rhetoric and composition, and rhetoric and space. His current work is concerned with the roles networks play in rhetorical production. His teaching and writing blur the boundaries between pedagogy and research, often emphasizing the ways various areas of interest intersect with and influence one another. Donna Strickland currently serves as Associate Director of Composition. As part of this role, she teaches courses in writing pedagogy and mentors new teachers of writing. She also regularly teaches upper division undergraduate/graduate courses in Writing with Web 2.0 and is developing a new course that integrates meditation into the writing process. Her graduate seminars and scholarly writings examine the "social turn" in composition theory, economic and critical management issues in writing programs, and theories of emotion in rhetorical theory and writing pedagogy. Marty Townsend preceded Jeff Rice as Director of the Campus Writing Program. She teaches courses ranging from first-year composition to graduate seminars in writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) and writing-in-the-disciplines (WID). She is interested in how WAC/WID programs develop, evolve, and are assessed, both in the U.S. and internationally. Because trends indicate that growth in WAC/WID programs is robust, and because the discipline has not kept pace in developing new scholars to direct them, she is interested in welcoming new graduate students to this area. Recent Graduate Student ProjectsGraduate Students in the Rhetoric and Composition Program have elected to work in a wide range of areas, including (but not limited to):
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