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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  • Zine Lab for Public Interest Technology

    The Zine Lab is a collaborative community project funded by the Public Interest Technology University Network. “Zines are world-making tools” and in the process of zine-making, “students make their ideas material while ensuring them a future, often for those whom our society harbors the most genocidal and negating tendencies towards” (Scheper, 2023, p. 31). Originating…

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  • “The March” – James Blue’s documentary of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs: A Digital Exhibition.

    James Blue’s 1964 documentary The March, which captures on film the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, indicts America for its system of apartheid and illustrates how interracial collaborations might dismantle it. With a grant from the Mellon Foundation, I worked with a team to create a digital exhibition of James…

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  • The Big Rhetorical Podcast

    The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods and features interviews with established and emerging scholars in rhetoric and composition and adjacent fields. Charles is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast features the Emerging Scholar Series and Keystone Perspectives Series…

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  • Reclaiming Opinions in the Age of Algorithms

    This is a Tedx Talk that I delivered in November, 2024 drawing from my rhetorical studies book Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality. The talk explores how social media platforms have transformed our understanding of opinions, turning them into tools for platforms to capture attention and influence beliefs. Drawing on ideas from antiquity, the talk challenges…

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  • Storying Sex: Podcasting Activism, Digital Life, and Sexual Health

    Storying Sex: Podcasting Activism, Digital Life, and Sexual Health collects and curates (his)stories of sexual health communication among LGBTQI BIPOC communities on social media and other digital technologies. Storying Sex highlights how LGBTQI BIPOC have used social media and other technologies to gather information about their sexual health, assess that information, and present that information…

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  • Cory Booker’s long speech offers a strategy for Trump opponents in a fragmented media landscape

    Cory Booker’s record-setting speech from March 31-April 5, 2025 grabbed headlines for its length, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention during and after the performance to disrupt Trump’s public spotlight. Our article on the website “The Conversation” draws from our published research (Matthew deTar and Erik Johnson, “The Long Speech: Rhetorical Abundance in…

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