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General Questions

Please direct all general questions regarding admissions, or inquiries about the PhD program, to Prof. Bill Hart-Davidson, Director of Rhetoric & Writing, 235C Bessey Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1047, 517.355.2400, hartdav2@msu.edu.

MA in Digital Rhetoric & Professional Writing

For information and questions about the Digital Rhetoric & Professional Writing MA Program, contact Prof. Jon Monberg, Assistant Director for MA in DRPW, 7 Olds Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1047, 517.355.2400, jmonberg@msu.edu .

MA in Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy

For information and questions about the Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy MA program, contact Prof. Ellen Cushman, Assistant Director for MA in CSLP, 235 Bessey Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1047, 517.355.2400, cushmane@msu.edu.

PhD in Rhetoric & Writing

About WRAC

Welcome to our department. We have played an important role in writing instruction in US universities for a long time. We were founded in 1944 as the department of Written and Spoken English as part of widespread changes in higher education in the post-war period. Such a department was fairly unique at that time, and our faculty were important to how writing instruction developed in higher education.

Today, we continue to lead and are committed to preparing excellent communicators in the culturally, technologically, and economically dynamic environments of the early 21st Century.

We provide MSU’s First-Year Writing program, a major in Professional Writing, and graduate programs Rhetoric and Writing offering both MA and PhD degrees. We touch the lives of around 7,000 students every year.

Our researchers are national leaders in digital writing, cultural rhetoric, literacy studies, composition, and professional writing. Our faculty lead research groups such as the Writing in Digital Environments Research Center, The Center for Applied and Inclusive Teaching and Learning in the Arts and Humanities, and Matrix, the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online. Our teachers are committed, creative, and above average–every single one of them.

We are committed to excellence in researching and teaching by taking on the most difficult problems and risking innovative solutions that change the world. Join us.

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