Rhetoric and Composition at a Glance

Community

• High faculty to student ratio
• Grad courses with students across tracks and departments (creative writing, literary and cultural studies, professional writing, literacy studies)
• Graduate student research colloquium every semester
• Annual graduate student conference hosted by composition program and organized by program GAs
• Department houses the Lucille M. Schultz Archive of 19th Century Composition and Rhetoric Textbooks and Handbooks

Teaching

• Robust teacher-training program
• Teach one course per term, with options after first year to teach non-composition courses (Advanced Composition for Teachers, Writing with Style, Digital Composing, Introduction to Copyediting & Publishing, Modern English Grammar, Topics in Rhetoric, and Business Writing, among others)
• Remote summer teaching opportunities
• Opportunities to teach and help grow curriculum in Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, Film and Media Studies, Environmental Studies

Professionalization

• Administrative positions in the Composition program and Academic Writing Center
• Room in curriculum to pursue certificates available in Professional Writing; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
• Guaranteed and competitive travel support
• Generous internal and external competitive summer research support
• Competitive dissertation fellowships
• Opportunities to help grow cross-disciplinary pedagogical research with burgeoning Institute for Postsecondary Learning Research
• Professionalization classes: job market, writing for publication, and dissertation writing
• GAships in units across the university (among them, Taft Research Center, the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, the Graduate College, Institute for Research in Sensing)
• Culture of graduate student collaboration (conference panels, book chapters, and articles)
• Faculty track record of publishing in collaboration with graduate students and alumni (e.g., Composing Legacies, Revising Moves, Failure Pedagogies, and more)

Faculty Research Areas (see https://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/english/grad/rc/faculty-profiles.html for faculty profiles)

• Rhetoric and emotion/affect
• Composing Practices
• Materialist and feminist rhetorics
• History, theory, and practice of writing instruction
• Qualitative, archival, and autoethnographic research methods
• Writing program administration and writing across the curriculum
• Dual enrollment studies
• Appalachian literacies
• Visual literacies
• Social movement rhetoric
• Professional practices (e.g., scholarly editing, mentoring, writing groups)
• AI and professional writing