203: Precariously Centered

Keywords: Digital Rhetoric, Digital Writing, Multimodality, Virality, Local. Dr. Carl Whithaus is a professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of California, Davis. He studies writing technologies and digital cultures, edits the Journal of Writing Assessment, and works on a variety of projects related to writing in the sciences, engineering, and agriculture. His books include Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres, Writing across Distances and Disciplines: Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning, and Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing. For more information visit thebigrhetorical.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Infertility, Reproductive Justice, Community Engagement, Artistic Expression, Milwaukee. Dr. Maria Novotny is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She’s a scholar, writer, curator, and community-engaged practitioner working at the intersections of rhetoric, reproductive justice, health advocacy, storytelling, and the arts. In a State of IF, explores art’s role in storytelling, healing, community building and advocacy around infertility and access to reproductive care. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet

Keywords: Translingualism, Language, Rhetoric, Sovereignty, Bangladesh. Shakil Rabbi is assistant professor in the Department of English at Virginia Tech, where he teaches courses in rhetoric, writing studies, and research methods.His new book, The Language Movement in Bangladesh charts the Bangla Language Movement from a rhetorical perspective. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.webly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Multimodal Composition, Digital Rhetoric, YouTube, Vlogging, Graduate Education.  Dr. Sarah Fischer is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies at the University of Miami. Her research and teaching center around digital rhetorics, multimodal composition, and embodiment. She also has a wonderful–and popular–YouTube channel @SarahFischerVlogs. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Academic Conference, Research. Enjoy sounds from the AI Hype, Hope and Humanity Conference which occurred September 30-October 2 at Erasmus University Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Writing Centers, Administration, Labor, Gender, Writing. Precariously Centered: The Experiences of Contingent Women Writing Center Administrators. Precariously Centered confronts the troubling intersection of gender and contingency in administrative writing center work—an intersection that has haunted writing centers for decades. Featuring findings from a groundbreaking qualitative study of a diverse group of contingent women writing center administrators, Liliana M. Naydan, Maggie M. Herb, and Clint Gardner demonstrate that gender and its intersections have personal, professional, disciplinary, and pedagogical consequences in writing centers. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Rhetoric, Marxism, Higher Education, Global Capital. James Rushing Daniel is an assistant professor at Seton Hall Univeristy. His scholarship sits at the intersection of rhetorical theory, composition studies, and critical university studies. His book, The Start-Up Factory: How Entrepreneurialism Captured Higher Education is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press, and charts how entrepreneurship became an ascendent force in American higher education and details how it remade the intellectual project of the university to better serve the needs of global capitalism. The book traces how entrepreneurial education evolved from an obscure subfield within a few elite business schools to become one of the crucial driving forces of higher education in the 21st century. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Computers, Writing, Conference, Academics, Interviews. For more information visit www.thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Digital Rhetoric, Environmental Rhetoric, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Storytelling. Dr. Dustin Edwards is associate professor of rhetoric and writing studies at San Diego State University. His work has been published in journals such as Computers and Composition, Enculturation, Rhetoric Review, and Present Tense, and his book, Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings and Planetary Survival, is available now from the University of Alabama Press. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Information Technologies, Memory, Infrastructure, Labor, Library. Dr. Nathan R. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Florida who studies the history of information technologies, focusing on how infrastructure and labor shape large technical systems. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Information School, developing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates science and technology studies (STS), critical information theory, and media studies. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.