Rhetoric Reading Group
The Rhetoric Reading Group meets quarterly and includes graduate students and faculty members from UCI and the surrounding Southern California area who are interested in rhetoric.
Fall 2023 Meeting
To welcome the new school year, we had a casual, lunch hour discussion on campus. We read a short passage from Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being in order to discuss the relationship between rhetoric and literature as well as how rhetorical studies can fit into an English Department, where many of our members are at UCI.
Past Themes Include the Following:
- World Building (Mudiwa, Kennelly, Ranciére)
- Rhetoric and the Personal (Yergeau, Hartman, Philip, Smitherman)
- New Takes on Old Favorites (Longinus, Jarratt, Burton, Wells, Burke, George)
- Borders and Belonging (Chavez, Davis, Flower, Gerdes, Yergeau, Chaput, Harding et al.)
- Chicanx Cultural Reclamation Strategies in Rhetoric, Composition, and Postcolonial Identity (Rowe, Olson, De Sahagun, Nemser, Bleichmar)
- Feminist Interventions in History and Rhetoric (Enoch, Quandahl, Royster, Lerner)
- Circulation and Materiality (Gries, Latour, Bennett, Spinoza, Boyle)
- Rhetoric and Activism (And What They Mean for Pedagogy) (Happe, Haskins, Butler, Dewey, Acosta, DeChaine)
- Ecologies and Metaphors (Edbauer, Booth, Deleuze and Guattari)
- Emotions in/of Rhetorical Education (Berlant, Gross and Alexander, Stenberg)
- Heidegger and Aristotle’s Rhetoric (Kisiel, Gross)
- Foucault’s Care of the Self/Parrhēsia (Courage of Truth, Government of Self and Others, Hermeneutics of the Subject)
- The Architectonics of Rhetorical Action (Doxtader, McKeon, Simonson)