Growing up in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Justin Alexander was the picture of health. A baseball player and quarterback of his high school football team, there was no reason to be…
When an important online resource about the Great Detective Sherlock Holmes was looking for a new home or faced the possibility of being taken down, Liza Potts, Associate Professor of…
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…
Professor Jacqueline Rhodes has been appointed Interim Chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC) for a two-year term, effective August 16, 2018-August 15, 2020. For the past year,…
Two recent doctoral graduates from the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures were recognized for their outstanding work by Kairos, a leading peer-reviewed journal of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Phil Bratta and…
Malea Powell, Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, has been selected as the next editor of College Composition and Communication (CCC), one of the flagship journals in writing…
Jessica Kukla was named the 2018 recipient of the Professional Writing (PW) Outstanding Major Award, which is presented by the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures and recognizes graduating students who…
Senior Professional Writing major Treandra Thomas has been working for Upward Bound at MSU since last fall, but her experience with the nonprofit organization didn’t begin there. Thomas participated in…
Senior Professional Writing major Kalib Watson is bringing his liberal arts degree to the 21st century. After switching his major to Professional Writing in the hopes of becoming an editor someday,…
"Immeasurable Numbness" is immediately impactful. The background is a series of scenes, one blurring into another: slavery, violence, police brutality, homelessness. These scenes drip down, bleeding into the foreground, where…