WRL'bration!
December congratulations go out to...
WRL faculty and staff
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Elizabeth Weiser, who was re-elected as the sole American on the Executive Board of ICOFOM the world’s largest network of museum scholars, as the Managing Editor of their journal and other publications. An amazing achievement!
WRL graduate students
- D'Arcee Charington Neal, who published "Book Review: Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" in Communication Design Quarterly. Exciting!
- Melissa Guadrón, who has been named a 2022-2023 Presidential Fellow. Congratulations!
- Amelia Lawson, who successfully defended her dissertation and earned her PhD in December. Congratulations Dr. Lawson!
WRL alumni
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Louis M. Maraj, who was awarded the National Communication Association’s Critical and Cultural Studies Division 2022 Outstanding Book Award for his book Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics as well as their Critical and Cultural Studies Division Scholar-Activist Award, which “honors a scholar who significantly contributes to their communities above and beyond their research and teaching while also imbuing their research, teaching, and/or service with activist interventions.” Congratulations on the amazing work!
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November congratulations go out to...
WRL faculty and staff
- Allison Kranek, who received the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Outstanding Article Award for “It’s Crowded in Here: ‘Present Others’ in Advanced Graduate Writers’ Sessions,” co-authored with María Paz Carvajal Regidor. What an honor!
- Dr. Susan Lang, Chris Manion and Allison Kranek, who presented "Wrap-Around Research, Teaching, and Support: Developing and Sustaining Cultures of Writing at a Large Flagship Institution" at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in Vancouver. Congratulations!
WRL graduate students
- Morgan Beers, who published a book review in Programmatic Perspectives vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2022. Morgan reviewed Radiant Figures: Visual Rhetorics in Everyday Administrative Contexts, ed. by Rachel Gramer, Logan Bearden and Derek Mueller. Looking forward to reading the review!
- Keira Hambrick, who had an article published in Across the Disciplines. Keira's article, co-authored with Genie Nicole Giaimo, is titled "Understanding the Challenges and Needs of International STEM Graduate Students: Implications for Writing Center Writing Groups." Can't wait to read it!
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October congratulations go out to...
WRL faculty
- Dr. Jonathan Buehl, who was accepted and offered membership into the 2022-2023 Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Imagined Futures Community of Practice. Very exciting!
- Dr. Elizabeth Weiser, who delivered the keynote address at the International Committee for Museology conference in Prague, Czechia. Dr. Weiser's address was titled, “Breaking the Taboo of Silence without Breaking the Nation.” Congratulations!
WRL alumni
- Dr. Elizabeth Miller, who published, “Our Embodied Selves: Neurodivergent and Disabled Writers Navigating the Pandemic” in The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics with Millie Hizer, Elena Kalodner-Martin, and Dennis Etzel Jr.
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WRL'bration Archive
August congratulations go out to...
WRL grad students
- Melissa Guadrón, who was appointed as a member of the Medical Rhetoric Standing Group Graduate Student Committee. Congratulations, Melissa!
- Angel Evans, who published her first solo-authored article, "From David Walker to John Chilembwe: Global Black Collectivity as Resisting Race and Affirming Culture" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly 52.3. Can't wait to read it!
WRL faculty
- Dr. Katie Braun, who published "Re-Placing Race in Historical Images of Knitting: The Multimodal Embodied Rhetoric of ‘Knitting While Black'" in The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. Fascinating work!
WRL alumni
- Dr. Melissa Nicolas, who authored Our Body of Work: Embodied Administration and Teaching with Anna Sicari. We're looking forward to checking this out!
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April congratulations go out to...
WRL grad students:
- Morgan Beers, Liliana Perez Rodriguez and Eduardo Mabilog, who presented “Mapping Alternative Narratives of Movement around Writing Centers: Three Graduate Students’ Experiences in Moving Away from their ‘Homes’” at Eastern Central Writing Central Association Conference at Michigan State University. Very cool!
- Noah Bukowski, who was named to the 2022-23 Society of Fellows supported by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme for his dissertation project. Awesome job!
- Caleb González, who was invited to teach a summer course in travel writing at Shanghai University. Have a blast!
- Melissa Guadrón, who was named the Andrea Abernathy Lunsford Fellow in WRL. Congratulations!
- Addison Koneval, who will be the Edward PJ Corbett Fellow in WRL. Way to go!
- Christopher Morris, who won the department’s 2022 Muste Award for Best Dissertation in English for his dissertation, “Redeveloping Participation: Rhetorics and Ontologies of Participatory Discourse in the Technical Communication of U.S. Public Housing Policy.” Well-deserved!
- Liliana Perez Rodriguez, who—for her incredible work as an FYW GTA—won the 2022 award for Excellence in Teaching by a First-Year Graduate Teaching Assistant. Wow, Lily!
WRL faculty:
- Dr. John Jones, who received a Sustainability Education Grant to design English 3022, Media Sustainability, for the new GE. Congrats!
WRL alumni:
- Dr. Annie Mendenhall, who published Desegregation State: College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement. Such important work!
- Dr. Lauren Obermark, who published Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice. Can’t wait to read!
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March congratulations go out to...
WRL grad students:
- Keira Hambrick, whose Humanities Oral Presentation won first place at the 36th annual Hayes Graduate Research Forum. Way to go, Keira!
- Yanar Hashlamon, who published “Rhetoricity at the End of History: Defining Rhetorical Debility under Neoliberal Colonialism” in the latest issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly: “The essay demonstrates rhetorical debility’s applicability to transnational sites of oppression along axes of disability, colonialism, and neoliberalism through a case study analysis of Palestinian protest rhetoric.” Seriously impressive work here, Yanar!
- Remi Hudgins, who has decided to leave academia to further their research in fields that are action-oriented. We wish you the best of luck, Remi!
- Liz Miller, whose fantastic teaching was recognized by the Graduate School through a 2022 Graduate Associate Teaching Award. We love great teaching!
- D’Arcee Charington Neal, who published in the new collection DisCrit Expanded: Reverberations, Ruptures, and Inquiries edited by Subini A. Annamma, Beth A. Ferri, and David J. Connor. Can’t wait to read!
WRL alumni:
- Dr. Sean Kamperman, whose leadership resulted in a fantastically comprehensive accessibility guide for Cs 2022 which we imagine will be used for years to come.
- Dr. Krista Kurlinkus who is sharing with the world her Intro to Grant Writing workbook.
- Dr. Louis Maraj, who won the 2022 CCCC Outstanding Book Award for Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics. This innovative project offers “four Black rhetorics as antiracist means for rhetorical reclamation—autoethnography, hashtagging, inter(con)textual reading, and reconceptualized disruption” and “uses Black feminist relationality via an African indigenous approach.” This is a must-read for all of us.
- Dr. Pritha Prasad, who recently published “Backchannel Pedagogies: Unsettling Racial Teaching Moments and White Futurity” in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. One of the many fantastic questions Prasad asks is: “What does it mean for BIPOC, especially in the academy where teaching holds profound cultural and economic value, when past racism is repackaged as future pedagogical opportunity?”
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February congratulations go out to...
- All the Buckeye Access All-Stars in the English department—especially Dr. John Jones, Dr. Margaret Price, Liz Miller, and Remi Hudgins—who made their classes more accessible, according to their students and highlighted by Jayasree Sunkireddy.
WRL grad students:
- WRL grad student Keira Hambrick, who was selected to attend the prestigious two-week 2022 Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research to work on the dissertation project, “Prior Knowledge and Transfer of Learning in First Year Composition.”
WRL faculty:
- Dr. Ben McCorkle, who collaborated on “A health literate approach to address health disparities: a virtual program for parents of children with sickle cell trait,” recently published in the Journal of Communication in Health Care.
- Drs. Ben McCorkle, Jim Fredal, and Scott DeWitt, whose promotions to full professor were approved by the dean and are headed to the President’s and Provost’s desks. Well deserved!
- Dr. Wendy Hesford, who has been reappointed for three years as faculty director of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme. Incredible!
WRL alumni:
- Undergrad alumna Sarah Bach, who published “‘Our House in On Fire:’ Exploring the Rhetorical Significance of Youth Climate Activists, an Emerging Discourse Community” in the latest issue of Young Scholars in Writing.
- WRL alum Dr. Sean Kamperman, who published a chapter (“Reflections on Research as it Unfolds: Inclusive Tactics as a Methodological Intervention”) in the collection Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric, edited by Lisa Melonçon and Cathryn Molloy.
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January congratulations go out to...
WRL grad students:
- Angel Evans, who won a 2022 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award for their work on how “the lived writing process—as embodied by Black scholars—can function as a transformative mode of knowledge-making and offer universal implications for what it means to heal.”
WRL faculty and staff:
- Dr. John Jones, who was recognized as a Buckeye Access All-Star for promoting access for students with disabilities. His nominating student wrote that he “required that all student class presentations meet accessibility standards. He is responsive to accommodation letters and makes asking for support painless.”
- Dr. Elizabeth Weiser, who won a National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grant worth $1,444,207 for “Enhancing a Transfer Pathway to Improve STEM Student Success” with Jefferson Roberts, William MacDonald, Karen Goodell, and Melissa Buelow.
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December congratulations go out to...
WRL grad students:
- Caleb González, who won the 2022 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. This award recognizes graduate students who show “exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and teaching and learning.” Impressively, Caleb is only the second Ohio State student to win this award—check out this December 9th press release!
- Keira Hambrick, who won a Presidential Fellowship—the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School! This fellowship will help Keira to complete her dissertation “Prior Knowledge and Transfer of Learning in First Year Composition” (advisor: Dr. Kay Halasek).
- Yanar Hashlamon, who completed his tenure as graduate co-editor of The Peer Review, where he demonstrated excellence in both vision and leadership. Great work on this important service, Yanar!
WRL faculty and staff:
- Drs. Chris Castillo and Christa Teston, who were awarded a grant from the Arts & Humanities Dean’s Discretionary Funds for Engagement and Outreach Work.
- Dr. Ashleigh Hardin, who won a grant from Ohio State’s Affordable Learning Exchange program.
- Dr. Margaret Price, who gave an invited lecture for the university ETH Zurich’s “Social Justice Series” titled “Disability Studies Methodologies: Using Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Uncover Nuances of Disabled Experiences in Higher Education.”
WRL alumni:
- Dr. Kaitlin Clinnin, who published “In the event of an emergency: crisis management for WPAs” as the lead article in the Fall 2021 issue of Writing Program Administration. (note: Dr. Clinnin is happy to share a PDF of the article if you email her)
- Dr. Gavin Johnson, who co-authored “Coalitional literacies of digital safety and solidarity: A white paper on nextGEN international listserv” in Computers and Composition.
- Dr. Tania S. Smith, who published a large critical anthology, “Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800” with Brill publishers.
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November congratulations go out to...
WRL faculty:
- Dr. Beverly Moss, who won the 2021 Coalition for Community Writing Distinguished Engaged Scholar in Community Writing Award. See the department announcement here.
- Dr. Chris Castillo, who won a 2021 Coalition for Community Writing Emerging Scholars Award.
WRL collaborations:
- Dr. Gavin Johnson, graduate students Melissa Guadrón, Keira Hambrick, Yanar Hashlamon, Addison Koneval, and Dr. Christa Teston for publishing “Responding to the Investigative Pivots of Rhetoric Research” in Rhetoric Society Quarterly
- Yanar Hashlamon and Dr. Christa Teston, who published “Teaching participative justice in professional writing” in Technical Communication Quarterly (forgive the typos; this is a pre-press version of the article)
- Dr. Ben McCorkle who with two Ohio State Alumni (Kathryn Comer and Michael Harker) published “Unruly Practice: Critically Evaluating the Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives” in a special issue of Across the Disciplines.
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October congratulations go out to...
WRL faculty:
- Dr. Wendy S. Hesford, who published her latest book, Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics and “Reading the Signs: Performative White Allyship.”
- Dr. Margaret Price, who published “Time Harms: Disabled Faculty Navigating the Accommodations Loop.”
- Dr. Christa Teston, who published a review of Bennett’s (2019) Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease.
WRL alumni:
- Dr. Aaron McKain, who incorporated a student-run digital ethics think tank, the Institute for Digital Humanity. This summer, they partnered with the Anti-Defamation League, Indiana University, and Netflix’s Coded Bias team, and this spring, they worked with ACLU MN to pass a facial recognition ban in Minneapolis.
- Dr. Gavin P. Johnson, who appeared on Pedagogue Podcast and won Honorable Mention, Computers and Composition Hugh Burns Best Dissertation Award.
- Dr. Julia Voss, who published “Thinking through Data Visualization: Leveraging the Exploratory Power of Figures to Create WPA Knowledge” with Heather Turner.
- Dr. Tim Barnett, who published “Individualism, Collective Action, and the Need for an Expansive View: Literacy Narratives in the Higher Education in Prison Classroom.”
- Dr. Robert Yagelski, who was named the inaugural holder of the Dorothy G. Griffin Endowed Professorship in the SUNY-Albany School of Education.
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September congratulations go out to...
WRL grad students:
- The following students, who advanced to candidacy over summer 2021:
WRL faculty:
- Dr. Beverly Moss, who published “Where Would We Be?: Legacies, Roll Calls, and the Teaching of Writing in HBCUs!” As @Mudiwa_P says, “this essay is a gift.”
- Dr. Susan Lang, who was invited to participate in the President and Provost’s Leadership Institute.
- Dr. Scott DeWitt, who was awarded the Computers & Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field.
WRL alumni:
- Dr. Erin Bahl, alumna, who recently published this gorgeous digital project, “Botanicals: An Interactive Pedagogical Webcomic"
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