UCI Rhetoric

Graduate Directed Reading on Rhetoric (for Seminar Credit)

Photo from the seminar led by Gesa Kirsch titled “Unsettling Archival Research.” Picturing (from right to left) Allison Dziuba, Librecht Baker, Leah Senatro, Gesa Kirsch, and Sophia Greco.

Graduate Directed Reading (for Seminar Credit), Fall 2021 + Winter 2022

Daniel M. Gross organized a two-quarter Graduate Rhetoric Seminar with rotating discussion leaders which, in addition to being offered as course credit for enrolled students, provided graduate students interested in rhetoric and composition the opportunity to participate in discussion with faculty members from across campus and, in some cases, the Southern California area, who do work in the field.

Below is a list of session titles and discussion leaders.

Fall 2021

  • General Introduction (Daniel M. Gross – Professor of English, UCI)
  • Ancient Rhetorics (Susan Jarratt – Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, UCI )
  • Medieval Rhetorics (Loretta Ramirez – Assistant Professor of Latinx Rhetoric & Composition, CSU Long Beach)
  • Early Modern Rhetorics (Daniel M. Gross)
  • Early Modern Rhetorics (Daniel M. Gross)
  • 19th-20th Century US Rhetorics of Race and Religion (Steve Mailloux – Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, UCI)
  • 19th-20th Century Women’s Rhetoric and Archival Methods (Rudo Mudiwa – Assistant Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, UCI)
  • 19th-20th Century Rhetorics of Sexology; Queer Rhetoric (Jonathan Alexander – Professor of English and Informatics, UCI)

Winter 2022

  • Rhetorical Theory (Daniel M. Gross)
  • Kenneth Burke (Steve Mailloux)
  • Decolonial Rhetoric (Loretta Ramirez)
  • Rhetoric in Translation (Jerry Lee – Professor of English, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies, UCI)
  • Comparative Rhetorics (Jerry Lee)
  • Unruly Rhetorics, Student Activism (Jonathan Alexander + Susan Jarratt)
  • Digital Rhetorics (Jonathan Alexander)
  • Unsettling Archival Research (Gesa Kirsch – Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Soka University)