Programs and Areas
Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy
Rebecca Dingo (2004 OSU graduate), Assistant Professor English & Women's Studies @ University of Missouri, will present "Rhetorics of Empowerment: From Beijing to the World Bank."
May 15, 2008
120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue
4:30 pm
Sponsored by OSU-WID (Women in Development) and RCL (Rhetorical Visions)
All are invited. If you'd like to join us for a social event with Rebecca please contact Wendy Hesford (hesford.1@osu.edu).
Rebecca Dingo is Assistant Professor of English and of Women's and Gender Studies. She received a Ph.D. in English and an MA in Women's Studies from The Ohio State University. Her research and teaching intersects twentieth century rhetorical theory with transnational, public policy, disability, and visual culture studies. She is interested in how public policy-making at the local, national, and global levels is created not only to persuade policy-makers but also every day citizens. Her current project looks across local, national, and global public policies. By considering the common and timely modes of persuasion that appear in each of her policy sites, Dr. Dingo illustrates not only that policy-making is a rich genre of persuasion, but also that contemporary policy-making is a discursive practice that often produces and reifies gender, race, ability, and transnational inequalities. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Women's History and Concerns: Journal of the Women's Caucus of the MLA.
