Syr - Composition and Cultural Rhetoric

Program Information:

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Faculty Areas of Specialization:

 * Agnew, Lois -History of rhetoric; classical rhetoric; British rhetorical theory; composition theory and pedagogy; rhetoric and philosophy; history of English studies
 * Banks, Adam - "I work at the intersections of technical communication, african american           rhetoric and technology issues more broadly defined in order to examine            questions of access."
 * Brooke, Colin Gifford - Writing and technology; information architecture; critical theory; genre studies; network studies; rhetorics of vision and visualization; history of rhetoric/philosophy.
 * Himley, Margaret - Writing Studies. Theories of Pedagogy and Curriculum. Queer Studies. Prospect’s Philosophy of Education and Descriptive Processes.
 * Howard, Rebecca Moore - Theory of authorship; print culture studies; stylistics; composition history. Sociolinguistics; writing across the curriculum; composition pedagogy; writing program administration.
 * Lipson, Carol - Ancient Egyptian rhetoric; Ancient histories of rhetoric before the Greeks; Technical communion, particularly cultural and global issues related to new technologies; Historical studies in the rhetoric of science.
 * Pandey, Iswari - Writing and literacy studies, transnational and postcolonial rhetorics, qualitative research, multimodal compositions, English in international contexts, translation, South Asian studies.
 * Parks, Steve - Progressive movements, literacy and political rights, community stories, community political power.
 * Phelps, Louise Wetherbee - Composition studies and rhetoric. Professional issues and administration in writing instruction and higher education.
 * Pough, Gwendolyn - Black feminist theories, public sphere theories, Black women writers, rhetorical theory, composition theory, critical pedagogy, and feminist pedagogy.
 * Schell, Eileen - Contemporary composition studies. Feminist theory and feminist composition studies. Rhetorical historiography. 19th and 20th century histories of women's rhetoric. Institutional histories of English studies and higher education. Writing program administration.

Notes:
According to the program website, their "sole focus in CCR is doctoral education."