Meet Casey McArdle
June 14, 2019
Dr. Casey McArdle is an Assistant Professor and Academic Specialist in the WRAC department. In addition, he serves an administrative role as program liaison for the new Experience Architecture (XA)…
Meet Liza Potts
June 14, 2019
Liza Potts joined MSU’s WRAC program in 2011 and has been busy ever since. She is the co-founder of the Experience Architecture (XA) program, director of WIDE Research, caretaker of…
Meet Christina Boyles: Assistant Professor
June 4, 2019
New Assistant Professor and Graduate Faculty member Christina Boyles joined WRAC in August 2018 and has loved every second of it. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from Baylor…
Meet Sarah Klotz: Assistant Professor
June 4, 2019
One of WRAC’s newer assistant professors is Sarah Klotz, who joined the department in Fall 2018. Sarah studied at UC Davis and received her PhD in English with an emphasis…
Dawn Opel: Class Utilizes Cutting-Edge Technology to Explore Prototyping
May 13, 2019
This past semester, Experience Architecture (XA) students took advantage of resources available at MSU Libraries while exploring the world of prototyping in the Prototyping Experience Architecture course, AL 444, taught…
Professor LaPensée Wins Guggenheim Fellowship Award
May 13, 2019
Assistant Professor Elizabeth LaPensée is among the 25 winners in the Fine Art group to receive a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship Award. The winners are chosen through a highly competitive process that narrowed 3,000…
Danielle DeVoss: Writing Across Digital Spaces
May 13, 2019
BEHIND THE WILL is a video series that gives viewers an inside look into what drives our faculty’s research, teaching, and creativity in Michigan State University's College of Arts & Letters.…
Using Participatory Approaches to Support Students and the Homeless
March 5, 2019
Benjamin Lauren, Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC), is working to help reduce the social stigma associated with homelessness and, drawing from his research on…
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‘Illuminating Survivor Voices’ Through the Arts
November 20, 2018
A poem by Associate Professor Nancy DeJoy, addressing the issue of silence in cases of sexual abuse and how the isolation and silencing of survivor voices is detrimental to the…
Professor Publishes First Ever Video Book
July 28, 2018
https://vimeo.com/187055623 Assistant Professor Alexandra Hidalgo has created the first collection of interconnected video essays around one topic. Cámara Retórica: A Feminist Filmmaking Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition is the first video book…