Author: Victor Del Hierro

In Fall of 2017, a group of student’s in Frontera Retorica—the graduate student chapter of RSA at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)—were enrolled Dr. Victor Del Hierro’s History of Rhetoric seminar. Approaching the middle of the semester, the course focused on discussing women and their relationship to the History of Rhetoric. We learned that women in ancient rhetoric had consistently been ignored and their rhetorical skills and practices discredited. Specifically, ancient women did not fit the euro-centric view of rhetors and it was assumed that women had no power and no voice. A key course in any program…

Presenters Ryan Trauman, Columbia College-Chicago Steven Hopkins, Arizona State University Ames Hawkins, Columbia College-Chicago Review Listening to podcasts always reminds of my most favorite method of learning. Sitting attentively as elders talked, conversations varied from political events to family gossip. Never daring to speak but that was never an issue. Being the audience to a conversation pushes us to listen carefully, it insists that we privilege the speakers and their thought before we respond. When I read text on a page, I find myself scribbling notes or leaving marginalia that interrupts the flow. The sonic experience of podcasts doesn’t allow…

Presenters Phil Bratta, Michigan State University, @philbratta Jasmine Villa, University of Texas at El Paso, @jasvilla_ Elizabeth Davis, University of Georgia, @drelizabeth After attending Computers and Writing for the first time last year in Rochester, I was eager to get back to C&W because of the range of possibilities in one panel. Session D7, this year in Findlay, was an excellent example of the multiple approaches to digital writing work being done in the field. Phil Bratta theorized the phenomenological relations between digital and material experiences, Jasmine Villa discussed to work of online space-making done by the organization and hashtag #LATISM,…