MLA Commons | RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/ Activity feed for the group, RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:43:25 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5a78307870603761e7f686d7a1dd4e61 Jennifer Sano-Franchini started the topic SRTOL, Disciplinary Histories, and Equitable Futures in the forum RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/forum/topic/srtol-disciplinary-histories-and-equitable-futures/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:08:48 -0500 Another panel that may be of interest:

SRTOL, Disciplinary Histories, and Equitable Futures

Friday, January 10, 3:30–4:45 PM, Churchill A2

  • CCCC in 1968: The Abundant History of Ernece B. Kelly and the Origins of the NCTE Taskforce on Racism and Bias
    Megan McIntyre, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  • SRTOL and SRTOW: Abundant Resources for Giving F…

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]]> 0 5baba3cb88bdab951af5bc4b68af5f91 Jennifer Sano-Franchini started the topic Forum Session 1/11, 5:15–6:30 PM: Rhetorics of (In)Visibility and the Law in the forum RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/forum/topic/forum-session-1-11-515-630-pm-rhetorics-of-invisibility-and-the-law/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:35:35 -0500 Please join us for our forum session, Rhetorics of (In)Visibility and the Law: Intersectional Perspectives from the Local to the National, to take place at MLA 2025 on Saturday, January 11 at 5:15–6:30 PM, Hilton Quarterdeck A. This panel will include the following presentations:

  • The Afro-Techno Jeremiad as a Challenge to Technological P…

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]]> 0 f1a395e94eadec711493539e1e0587c4 Jennifer Sano-Franchini started the topic Seeking Nominations: RCWS History & Theory of Rhetoric Forum Exec Comm in the forum RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-rcws-history-theory-of-rhetoric-forum-exec-comm/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:05:14 -0500 We’re inviting nominations for an individual to serve as RCWS History & Theory of Rhetoric Forum Executive Committee Member, starting in January 2026. The term is five years in length. Executive Committee Members must have an active MLA membership. Self nominations are welcome and encouraged!

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]]> 0 f00445f8119fad6490c8675808b1e1b9 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2020-forum-delegate-election-41/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:43:50 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 df254e9b4fdaf5551842d1b729a9ea86 Noemi Marin deposited Rhetorical Crossings of 1989: Communist Space, Arguments by Definition, and Discourse of National Identity Twenty-Five Years Later in the group RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620162/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 03:50:02 -0400 The Romanian political scene at the end of 1989 calls for a critical rhetorical perspective to understand how totalitarian politics clash with revolutionary changes and how communist space, so ambitiously crafted to cover an entire country’s public sphere, influences, if at all, a free(d) discourse on national unity. Examining official discourse o…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c9c466ecd60a114d387a2423b9c0a6f Noemi Marin created the doc Rhetorical Crossings of 1989: Communist Space, Arguments by Definition, and Discourse of National Identity Twenty-Five Years Later in the group RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620154/ Fri, 05 Oct 2018 21:42:08 -0400 0 ec8c705f4e6c0b34c7c70a3f9e7e0b58 Danizete Martínez started the topic CFP: Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story in the discussion History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/forum/topic/cfp-justice-and-equity-through-the-immigrant-story/ Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:12:19 -0400 Dear Colleagues:

Please consider submitting a proposal.

Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story

The editors of this collection invite proposals for essays that address issues of justice and equity that emerge through the telling, writing, and remembering of the immigrant story in the writing classroom. In particular, we invite papers…[Read more]

]]> 0 917711e9b748401dd9b2cd6d9623bcad Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571421/ Tue, 23 May 2017 20:14:29 -0400 The historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams

]]> 0 1cb6b20e77247e20e09e18a504e65e28 Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Delegate Assembly Election: Call for Membership Suggestions in the discussion History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/forum/topic/2017-delegate-assembly-election-call-for-membership-suggestions/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:05:21 -0400 Since the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative is scheduled to end in January 2018, the election of a new delegate will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will begin to consider nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a30bb955355146ebb6f94d2bbdcb14c Alex Mueller deposited Social Networking in the Scriptorium in the group RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552528/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:47:00 -0400 This course examines the literary, cultural, and material life of written correspondence from the poetic epistle to the snarky tweet. And while we will read and analyze epistolary literature (both fiction and nonfiction) such as Ovid’s Heroides, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and
Alice Walker’s A Color Purple, we focus our efforts on “real” letters o…[Read more]

]]> 0 d13747a81acb9d3cc40d4d2836b318f5 Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: "Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind" (ACLA 2017) in the discussion History and Theory of Rhetoric https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/history-and-theory-of-rhetoric/forum/topic/cfp-psyche-suasion-style-comparative-rhetoric-and-the-mind-acla-2017-2/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 06:39:44 -0400 “Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)

Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysis, and…[Read more]

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