Dear Colleagues,
I’m writing because Ohio State has spent the last two years studying the job market and collecting data from alumni and current graduate students, all of which has helped us to make informed decisions about who and what we are as a graduate program.
As the recently renamed Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy (WRL) Graduate Program, we’re excited to receive applications for the upcoming academic year. We offer a PhD as well as an integrated MA/PhD in the Department of English. I’d be so grateful if you’d share this information with your students.
As part of our internal conversations about who and what we are as the WRL Program, we’ve just updated our list of areas of faculty expertise, which now includes:
- anti-racist rhetoric, writing studies, and pedagogy;
- business, professional, and technical writing;
- community literacies;
- digital media studies;
- disability studies;
- feminist-materialist rhetorics;
- research methods;
- rhetorics of science, technology, and medicine; and
- writing program administration.
Visit this link for more information about the Department of English’s Graduate Program. Check out the WRL Program website here!
Next fall, we’ll also be opening up our new Reader Experience Lab, which has some fun tools (e.g., Tobii Pro eyetracking software) for collecting data about how people interact with multimodal messaging.
Thanks for sharing these updates about our program!
Take care,
Christa
Christa Teston, PhD (she/her)
Vice Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy Program
College of Arts and Sciences English Department
402 Denney Hall, 164 Annie and John Glenn Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
www.christateston.com