Faculty Research

WRAC is a home of and hub for cutting-edge scholarship in rhetoric and writing studies. Faculty engage projects that result in conference presentations, article publications, webtext production, documentary film, books, and more.
Our collective scholarship addresses issues that span the broad work of the discipline, and addresses issues related to cultural rhetorics, digital rhetorics, writing studies and pedagogy, visual rhetorics, experience architecture, professional and technical communication, the history and theory of rhetoric, and more.

WRAC is the home of the Journal of Global Literacies, Emerging Pedagogies, and Technologies, edited by co-founder Professor Marohang Limbu, and constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space, edited by Professor Alex Hidalgo.

Professor Kate Birdsall directs The Cube: Publishing Process Praxis, a publishing space that supports a range of research-related activities anchored by a commitment to community and equity. The Cube currently supports a monthly magazine, a literary quarterly, several scholarly journals, a community of feminist filmmakers, a collaborative fandom, book and monograph production, web design, and experiential learning.

WRAC faculty and students participate in research clusters that run with department support and include a Multimodal Research Collective, the Queer Theory Playground, and a Soundwriting Collaborative.

Faculty in WRAC participate in and collaborate with a range of other research centers, spaces, and initiatives at MSU, including the Center for Interdisciplinarity (C4I), Digital Humanities, the HUB, the Center for Gender in a Global Context (GenCen), MATRIX, the Writing Center, and others.

We’ve included below some recent highlights and accomplishments. For more details about faculty projects, please feel free to explore the bio pages of our faculty at wrac.msu.edu/faculty