In 2023, the Rhetoric Reading Group hosted a Graduate Student Lunch Hour on campus to discuss Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being. 

For the fall 2021 and winter 2022 quarters, Daniel M. Gross organized a Graduate Directed Reading on Rhetoric (for seminar credit) with rotating discussion leaders.  The seminar provided a weekly opportunity for graduate students interested in rhetoric and composition to participate in conversation and meet faculty members from across campus who do work in rhetoric and composition.

Invited speakers Profs. Lisa A. Flores (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Renee Moreno (California State University, Northridge) joined our spring quarter reading group and presented their scholarship on May 13, 2019. For more information, see our event summary.

On April 16th, Jessica Enoch, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland–College Park, joined our final reading group of AY 2017–2018. Prof. Enoch also delivered a public lecture titled “Feminist Memory Studies: Rhetorics of Gendered Remembrance.”

As part of our AY 2016-2017 reading group, we hosted Laurie Gries at UCI in February 2017. She visited our reading group and gave a public lecture. More information about the lecture, including a link to a summary of the proceedings, can be found here.

We hosted Unruly Rhetorics: Conversations about Activism and Pedagogy in May 2016, an all-day event featuring lectures by Nancy Welch and Paula Mathieu that served as the culmination for our AY 2015-2016 reading group.

Current members assisted RCGC alum Lance Langdon with the preparation and publication of a Composition Forum special issue on the topic of emotion (Summer 2016), which Lance directed as Guest Editor.

The RCGC participated in the review and selection process for The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals in 2012, 2013, and 2015. We enjoy partaking in the important work of recognizing noteworthy rhet/comp scholarship.

In 2012 and 2013, we organized regional research symposia for rhet/comp teacher-scholars. Click here for more information, including archived program materials.