Rhetoricity
Rhetoricity is a quasi-academic podcast that draws on rhetoric, theory, weird sound effects, and the insights of a lot of other people. It's something that's a little strange and, with luck, a little interesting. The podcast's description will evolve along with it. So far, most episodes feature interviews with rhetoric and writing scholars.
The podcast is a project of Eric Detweiler, an assistant professor in the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University. For more on Rhetoricity and his other work, visit http://RhetEric.org.
- Update frequency
- every 35 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Where the Writing Is: An Interview with Ashley J. Holmes
This episode features an interview with Dr. Ashley Joyce Holmes. Dr. Holmes is Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University, where she leads the Center for Teaching and…
Rhetorical, Material, Critical Bodies: An Interview With Christina Cedillo
This episode features an interview with Christina Cedillo. Dr. Cedillo is an associate professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where she recently won the 2024 President’s Research Award. H…
Podcasting in the Classroom: A Roundtable on the Humanities Podcast Network’s Teaching Manual
This episode features a roundtable conversation by contributors to Teaching Students to Podcast, an open-access, lesson plan-based manual on integrating podcasts into humanities courses. That manual …
"The Path Chose Me": Keith Gilyard on His Career, Writing, and Legacy
This episode features an interview with Dr. Keith Gilyard conducted by guest host Dr. Derek G. Handley during the 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute at Penn State University. They disc…
Food, Feelings, and Other Rhetorical Sensitivities: An Interview with Jennifer LeMesurier
This episode features an interview with Jennifer Lin LeMesurier. The conversation, recorded at this year's Conference on College Composition and Communication, focuses on her 2023 book Inscrutable Ea…
AI Goes to College: Large Language Models and the Teaching of Writing
This episode of Rhetoricity features members of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing: Antonio Byrd, Holly Hassel, Sarah Z. Johnson, Anna Mills, and Elizabeth Losh. The task force also incl…
Rhetoricians Assemble: A Roundtable of Black Rhetoric Faculty
This is the third Rhetoricity episode guest-hosted by Dr. Derek Handley. It's also part of The Third Annual Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival.
The episode was recorded at the 2022 Rhetoric Society of A…
Futures in the Present Tense
Today's episode was originally broadcast as part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020, but is finding its way to the Rhetoricity feed in full for the first time. Focus on the carnival's theme …
Crossing Over with Cedric Burrows
This episode features an interview with Cedric Burrows conducted by guest interviewer Derek G. Handley. Their conversation focuses on Dr. Burrows' 2020 book Rhetorical Crossover: The Black Presence i…
Demanding Black Linguistic Justice: An Interview with April Baker-Bell
This episode features guest interviewer Derek G. Handley speaking with Dr. April Baker-Bell. They discuss Dr. Baker-Bell's book Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy as…
Writing After Writing: An Interview with John Gallagher
This episode features an interview with John R. Gallagher conducted by guest interviewer Sarah Riddick. The interview focuses on Gallagher's 2020 book Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writ…
Unflattening Global Rhetorics and Archival Pedagogies: An Interview with Tarez Samra Graban
This episode features an interview with Tarez Samra Graban, an associate professor in the Department of English at Florida State University. Dr. Graban was also the keynote speaker at Middle Tennesse…
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival 2020
This is a short episode to make a quick announcement: Over the last week, a bunch of rhetorically inclined podcasts have been putting out new episodes as a part of The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival…
Rhetorical Juxtapositions
This episode of Rhetoricity features contributions from four rhetoric scholars: Kati Fargo Ahern, Ben Harley, Lee Pierce, and Rachel Presley. Their pieces address questions asked by previous guest D…
Race, Motive, and the Rhetoric of Display: An Interview with Ersula Ore
This episode features an interview with Dr. Ersula J. Ore, recorded at the 2020 Modern Language Association Convention in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Ore is the Lincoln Professor of Ethics in the School…
Call for Rhetorical Juxtapositions
Note: The deadline for submissions has passed. But please feel free to get in touch if you have ideas for segments and collaborations, whether related to this call or not!
This is more of an invitati…
The Available Memes of Persuasion: Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister
Note: Interested in the intersections of rhetoric and sound? The deadline for submissions to the 2020 Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing Conference is Feb. 21! The CFP and submission instructions a…
Little Worlds About Writing: An Interview with Laura Micciche
This episode features an interview with Laura Micciche. It was recorded during her visit to Tennessee for the 2019 Peck Research on Writing Symposium. Dr. Micciche was the keynote speaker at the symp…
Rhetoric, She Wrote: Andrea Lunsford on the Discipline and its Histories
For more information on the Rhetoric Society of America's Andrea A. Lunsford Diversity Fund, which is discussed in the introduction to this episode, click here.
This episode of Rhetoricity features a…
The Weird Possibilities of Academic Podcasting
Edit (08/07/2019): The CFP for the 2020 Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing Conference is now live! Check it out here.
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Just in time for the 2019 Computers and Writing Conference, this Rhetoricit…