News and Announcements

 

Newsreel Fall 2024-Spring 2025

• NEW DEGREE PROGRAM! Stony Brook  launches B.A. in Rhetoric and Writing to start in Fall 2026.
•  Dr. Rita Nezami has been chosen as one of the recipients of this year's Chancellor's Award of Excellence in Teaching. 
• Professor Zoltan Majdik  of North Dakota State University speaks on "A Rhetorical/Deliberative Framework for AI Language Model Alignment" April 14 in Humanities 1008 at 12:30 to 1:49 PM ET.
• Dr. Rita Nezami read from her latest translation in the Poetry Center on April 7, 2025, Tahar Ben Jelloun's autobiographical novel, The Public Scribe.
• Dr. Ryan Mitchell published "Archives, Criticism, and Care: Tending to Archival Work in the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine" with Julie Homchick Crow in Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric.
• Writing minor Laci Burton is URECA's Researcher of the Month--read her interview here. 
• Dr. Katherine Johnston's book,  Profiles and Plotlines,  has won the 2024 Book Prize by the Surveillance Studies Network.
• Peter Elbow, former director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, dies at age 89. Read his obituary in the New York Times. 
• Join us on March 10 to celebrate the publication of  full-time lecturer Laura Marciano's new poetry book, Opening Ceremony (12:30-1:50, Poetry Center, Humanities 2001). 
• Professor Leonard Cassuto presents his book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter in the Poetry Center (Humanities Building, 2nd floor) on October 15, 2024 at 12:30-1:50 PM.
  
  
  
  

Newsreel Spring 2024

• Dr. Roger Thompson, professor in Writing and Rhetoric at SBU, and Brandon Banarsi, an electrical engineering graduate student at Stony Brook University, were recently interviewed for Newsday cover story discussing the growing importance of A.I. in industry and culture. Read more, https://nwsdy.li/3TREWOD
  
  
  
  

Newsreel Summer-Fall 2023

• PWR/Alda Institute/School of Communication IDEA Fellow and PWR faculty member, Matthew Salzano, was featured by Stony Brook U.'s STRONGER TOGETHER. 
• Dr. Katherine Johnston presented research from her book, Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature, on November 14, 2023 in the Humanities Institute. 
• A student personal essay reading was convened by Dr. Rita Nezami on November 15, 2023 in the Poetry Center. 
• A teaching workshop on AI in the classroom, Re-Centering Student Agency in the Age of AI, was led by PWR faculty Dr. Shyam Sharma, Dr. Katherine Johnston, & Dr. Cynthia Davidson on November 15, 2023 in Humanities 2046.
• Dr. Robert Kaplan read from his book of poetry,Past/Present and Other Poems, at the Poetry Center on November 1, 2023 at 4 pm.
• The SUNY Council on Writing Conference was held virtually, hosted by the Stony Brook PWR on October 13-14, and was a huge success with over 300 virtual attendees. Special thanks to our own IDEA Fellow, Matthew Salzano, for his role in organizing this event. Congratulations to all who participated! 
• CALL FOR PAPERS for the SUNY Council on Writing Conference at Stony Brook University (hosted by the Program in Writing and Rhetoric). See the CFP on the SUNY Council on Writing Website for more information on how to propose a presentation. All welcome: hold the dates: October 13-14, 2023. Check back later for registration information. 
  
  

Newsreel Spring 2023

• Dr. Kristina Lucenko speaks about Women Writing Race in 17th Century England through the Humanities Institute at SBU: HUM 1008 onTuesday, April 25, 4:30-6:00 PM.
• Dr. Cynthia Davidson presents a talk on her book Women's Voices in the Bluewave Resistance on Twitter: Cruel Optimism in Humanities 1008, 1:00 -2:20 PM on March 29, 2023.
• Dr. Rita Nezami speaks on "The Rooftop: A Culture-Specific Feminist Space in Muslim Society" as part of the Humanities Institute Faculty Research Lecture series on March 1, 2023, 1:00-2:20 PM in Humanities 1008. 
• On Feb. 28, 2023 as a part of the Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows Lectures, Dr. Peggy Spitzer speaks on several features of female empowerment in climate change – with unique transnational and translational relationships – from Central America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. She discusses the reasons collecting and disseminating reflexive oral histories is important in promoting human rights and gender justice. 4:30 PM, Hum. 1008.
• Writing and Rhetoric Minor  and Biology major Matthew Venezia, class of 2023, is URECA's Researcher of the Month for January. Matthew's deep and substantive interest in plant biology and biotechnology was sparked early on as a participant in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Partners for the Future Program for talented Long Island high school students. Read his interview here.
• Professor Joe Labriola's new piece "Blowout Tide" has been published in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place.