RHETORICS FOR ALL

Rhetorics for All is an ever-growing catalog of publicly engaged rhetorical scholarship. It aims to collect such scholarship in a central location, give it greater visibility through RSA networks, facilitate connections between those pursuing such scholarship within and beyond the society, and, ultimately, increase the public relevance of rhetorical studies.

RSA believes that a public catalogue of the engaged work of our membership will provide models for public work, enhance collaboration across the society, and broaden the narrative regarding the role of rhetorical study in higher education and contemporary culture.

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  • Our Recovery: Building Inclusive and Accountable Recovery Communities

    Our Recovery is a public-facing initiative that brings together Women of Color and allies to explore how systemic oppression shapes experiences of trauma, belonging, communication, healing, and recovery. Created by Codi Renee Blackmon, PhD, Our Recovery grows from the intersection of rhetorical scholarship, recovery leadership, community education, and research on racial dynamics within online recovery…

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  • The Okanogan Region’s Food System Assessment: A Collaboration Between a Land-Grant & a Food-Justice Focused Nonprofit

    During Fall 2023, 24 business students and a technical faculty member collaborated with nonprofit Blue Sky Minds to build the framework and content for what is now the Okanogan Region’s first Local Community Food Assessment. This document serves as a foundational document driving the work of Blue Sky Minds in northern Washington State. Blue Sky…

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  • A Field Guide to Rhetorical Animals Zine and Digital, Collaborative Rhetoric Archive

    A Field Guide to Rhetorical Animals: The Zine and its companion website, Burke Watching invite broad public audiences to access and engage interactively with rhetorical theory through Kenneth Burke’s animal metaphors. Taking Burke’s animal metaphors as entry points, this project invites public audiences to identify and navigate his major rhetorical concepts – like trained incapacities,…

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  • The Collectors

    Anatomy and pathology museums were once essential infrastructure for medical research and education—places where generations of physicians learned to read the body. To understand the history of medicine fully, it helps to understand the history of these institutions. The Collectors, an online repository, aims to do exactly that: it catalogues anatomy and pathology museums founded…

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  • Positionality Stories

    On Positionality Stories, a blog hosted on Medium, teacher-scholars post first-person narratives examining how their identities, experiences, and perspectives shape the choices they make as scholars, teachers, and practitioners. With a focus on positionality in research, work, and teaching, these stories weave together the academic, the personal, and the public while also connecting academics with…

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  • Occasional Hazards

    A scholar’s blog on the history and theory of rhetoric for contemporary concerns.

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Joining RSA puts you into direct contact — via this website, RSA conferences and institutes, and other RSA members-only resources — with a large and growing interdisciplinary group of scholars who share your interest in rhetoric. Members receive access to Rhetoric Society Quarterly, special rates on events, and are eligible to be nominated for RSA awards.

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