Become a scholar-practitioner of rhetoric, writing, media, and making.
Oklahoma’s graduate program in Rhetoric and Writing Studies (RWS) prepares students to become scholar-practitioners who analyze rhetoric, writing, media, and making across a range of cultural and historical contexts. Our professors represent the diversity of the field, researching rhetorical history and theory, women’s rhetorics, indigenous and de-colonial studies, composition theory, technical writing and scientific communication, multimodal production, religious rhetoric, digital humanities, cross-curricular literacy, and writing program administration. Recent courses demonstrating this breadth, include:
Beyond the classroom, RWS faculty serve as editors of 3 academic journals:
Graduate students work closely with their faculty advisors to develop a unique program of study, resulting in projects and publications like:
Technical and professional communication, disability rhetoric, rhetorics of health and medicine, digital rhetorics, user-experience design.
Check out Professor Bennett's recent publication in Technical Communication Quarterly, "(Dis)ability Deconditioning: Challenging Ableist Articulations of Professionalism in University Career Centers"
Digital humanities, medieval manuscripts, and visual rhetoric.
Check out Professor Endres’s recent chapter on building as a vital humanistic literacy in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities.
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Theory, Land-Based Pedagogies, Indigenous Language Revitalization, and Critical Regionalism
Check out Professor Jackson's most recent article "Red Flags of Dissent: Decoloniality, Transrhetoricity, and Local Differences of Race"
History of rhetoric; material rhetorics; women's rhetorics; creative nonfiction; Oklahoma cultural studies.
Check out Professor Kates’s creative non-fiction collection Red Dirt Women if you’re interested in learning more about Oklahoma as an intricate site of cultural studies.
Rhetorical history, theory, and criticism; writing; women’s rhetoric; African American rhetoric; rhetorical education; religious rhetoric; environmental rhetoric; institutional history.
Check out Professor Mountford’s field-defining “Mt. Oread Manifesto” and her latest edited collection Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century
Writer development; writing pedagogy; research methods/methodologies; poetic inquiry; feminist rhetoric and research methods; writing through the lifespan; longitudinal writing research; inclusive publishing
Check out Professor Tarabochia being interviewed about her most recent book, Reframing the Relational: A Pedagogical Ethic for Cross-Curricular Literacy Work,.
American Indian rhetorics, literatures, critical theories, gender studies
Check out Professor Wieser's recent co-edited NCTE/CCCC Cross-Caucus Symposium written with Ersula Ore and Christina V. Cedillo.
Cultural rhetoric studies; post-45 American literature; Cold War culture; Civil Rights Movement; literary and critical theory; queer theory; the graphic novel; environmental literature, ecocriticism, and the new materialism
Check Out Professor Zeigler's most recent book Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism.
Pursue either an M.A. or a Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Writing Studies
For other questions contact our graduate program liaison Brenda Mackey (bmackey@ou.edu) or director of graduate study Dr. Sandra Tarabochia (sltarabochia@ou.edu).
Also, be sure to check out our English Graduate Studies FAQ, here.
