Dear Colleagues,
Please share this email with interested Master’s students. The University of Cincinnati’s doctoral program in Rhetoric and Composition invites applications for fall 2025 admission! We are hosting three open house events at which current UC faculty and graduate students look forward to meeting prospective students and answering questions about the program and about life in Cincinnati:
Tuesday, October 29, 9:00-10:00 AM EST registration link: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdeyrrzksGNAo8hfzIQj1Ql4DBcE9_jmf
Wednesday, October 30, 7:00-8:00 PM EST registration link: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsceGsrjItGdEgYW-T6-iYu-l5q-2FVcdp
Friday, November 15, 3:00-4:00 PM EST registration link: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuceCrqTwsGNS00LEKkJrmNKMnMYj_ea0o
Our application deadline is January 1 (no GRE or foreign language requirement). Program highlights at a glance:
Community:
- High faculty to student ratio
- Grad courses with students across tracks and departments (rhetcomp, creative writing, literary and cultural studies, professional writing, literacy studies)
- Graduate student research colloquium every semester
- Visiting scholar series (upcoming and recent: Chris Anson, Christina Cedillo, Bill Hart-Davidson, James Chase Sanchez, Kate Vieira, Carmen Kynard)
- Annual graduate student conference hosted by composition program and organized by program GAs
- Department houses the Lucille M. Schultz Archive of 19th Century Composition and Rhetoric Textbooks and Handbooks
Teaching:
- Robust teacher-training program
- Teach one course per term, with options after first year to teach non-composition courses (Advanced Composition for Teachers, Writing with Style, Digital Composing, Introduction to Copyediting & Publishing, Modern English Grammar, Topics in Rhetoric, and Business Writing, among others)
- Remote summer teaching opportunities
- Opportunities to teach and help grow curriculum in Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, Film and Media Studies, Environmental Studies
Professionalization:
- Administrative positions in the Composition program and Academic Writing Center
- Room in curriculum to pursue certificates available in Professional Writing; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Guaranteed and competitive travel support
- Generous internal and external competitive summer research support and competitive dissertation fellowships
- Professionalization classes: job market, writing for publication, and dissertation writing
- GAships in units across the university (among them, Taft Research Center, the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, the Graduate College, Institute for Research in Sensing)
- Culture of graduate student collaboration (conference panels, book chapters, and articles)
- Faculty track record of publishing in collaboration with graduate students and alumni (e.g., Composing Legacies, Revising Moves, Failure Pedagogies, and more)
Faculty Research Areas:
- Rhetoric and emotion/affect
- Composing Practices
- Materialist and feminist rhetorics
- History, theory, and practice of writing instruction
- Qualitative, archival, and autoethnographic research methods
- Writing program administration and writing across the curriculum
- Dual enrollment studies
- Appalachian literacies
- Visual literacies
- Social movement rhetoric
- Professional practices (e.g., scholarly editing, mentoring, writing groups)
- AI and professional writing
Many thanks for reading and sharing,
Laura
Professor Laura Micciche (Mitch-uh-key)
Chair, Doctoral Consortium in Rhetoric & Composition
Co-Director, Copyediting & Publishing Certificate Program
Area Director, Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Composition
Co-Editor, WPA Book Series for Parlor Press
225B A&S Hall, University of Cincinnati
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