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Event Calendar

Below is a listing of our events for the current semester. If you would like to add an event to this listing or report an error, please e-mail Joannah Portman Daley with the detailed information.

Spring 2012

Tuesday, April 3rd
What: Writer in Residence, Stephen Frater, reading, discussion and book signing, Hell Above Earth
Where: Lippitt Hall, 402 Lippitt Auditorium
When: 4:00pm - 5:00 pm
Who: Open to the public

Fall 2011

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

All-Department Meeting
Where:Multicultural Center
When: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Who: WRT faculty and staff

Spring 2011

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Senior Capstone ePortfolio Presentations
Where: Galanti Lounge
When: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Who: Faculty, students, friends, and family

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Brown Bag: Jamie White-Farnham, "Inheriting Housework Genres: The Grocery List and other Rhetorical Tools-in-Use"
Where: Writing Center, 4th floor Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff and graduate students

Thursday, January 21, 2011

All Department Meeting
Where: Multicultural Center
When: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff

Fall 2010

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Senior Capstone ePortfolio Presentations
Where: Galanti Lounge
When: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Who: Faculty, students, friends, and family

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Assistant Professor Candidate #1 Visit
Teaching Demonstration
9:45am, Swan 305
Research Presentation
3:30pm, Lippitt 402
Who: Faculty, students, and the greater Rhetoric community

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Brown Bag: Professor Jeremiah Dyehouse, "'The Divergent Elements All Hang Together': John Dewey's Writings on Writing"
Where: 311 Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff and graduate students

Friday, September 24, 2010

Brown Bag:"Peering into Peer Review: A Workshop about Workshops"
Where: Production Lab, 320 Roosevelt
When: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff and graduate students

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Reception for 2010 Excellence Award Winners
Where: URI Foundation
When: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Who: Faculty, students, and friends

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Writing & Rhetoric Welcome Party
Where: Professor Pennell's home
When: 4pm
Who: WRT faculty and graduate students

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

All Department Meeting
Where: Multicultural Center
When: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff


Past Events


Senior Capstone ePortfolio Presentations

Retirement Celebration for Professor Linda Shamoon

WRT 647 Research Methods Poster Presentations

CCCC Preview

2009-2010 All Department Meetings

WRT Beautification Project

Brown Bag: "Making Reflection Routine in Portfolio-Based Writing Courses" by Professor Nedra Reynolds

Brown Bag: "The Collision of Science and Rhetoric, and a Lesson on How to Save a Bay" by Matthew Ortoleva

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News

Please visit our announcements page for more details on the following news:

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Tim Amidon, who was recently selected as an Assistant Editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Professor Caroline Gottschalk Druschke was selected for a summer research position with the EPA's Atlantic Ecology Division in Narragansett. Caroline will be working with them this summer to study the barriers to and opportunities for restoration in the Woonasquatucket watershed in northern Rhode Island. She looks forward to sharing her experience and findings with the Harrington School Communicating Science Cluster in the fall.

Professor Libby Miles has been selected for a national team of curriculum developers/facilitators for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). "Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success" is a grant-funded project designed to help over 300 college and university librarians create projects to assess their impact on student learning.

Student Profiles

Shauntel Martin Get to know graduating senior Shauntel Martin.


Sara Gilman Get to know Sara Gilman during her junior year.


See more student profiles.

Upcoming Events


Wednesday, May 8th
What: 495 Capstone Portfolios and Awards Presentation
Where:Lippitt Auditorium - 4th floor Lippitt Hall
When: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Who: WRT faculty, students, friends, and families

Check out our Event Calendar to see what's happening


Publications

New publications by Gavin Hurley, Tim Amidon,Jeremiah Dyehouse, Cathyrn Molloy, Kim Hensely Owens, Mike Pennell, and Joannah Portman Daley!

See a full list of recent Publications by our faculty and graduate students.

special programs

National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric