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November 16, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

HumanitiesX with Dr. Tim Elliott

DePaul’s HumanitiesX Experiential Humanities Collaborative is an ongoing project that utilizes community engagement and collaboration to help students learn through “interdisciplinary teams that apply humanities methods to real-world projects.” WRD professor Tim Elliott is one of the faculty leading a class in this year’s HumanitiesX 2022-23: The Environment: Crisis and Action. We sat down with Dr. Elliott to learn more about his upcoming HumanitiesX project for Spring Quarter 2023. What will your HumanitiesX class look like, and how did you get involved?? The course titled Writing and Social Engagement: Community Centered Environmental Advocacy will be engaging in a community environmental

November 10, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

Graduating Student Spotlight: Amanda Finn

As the quarter draws to a close, the MAWRD program will graduate four students. Before these students move into new phases of their educational and professional careers, we wanted to hear about some of the meaningful experiences WRD has created for them. So, we caught up with Amanda Finn, one soon-to-be graduate, on her time in the program, her plans after graduation, and her best advice for continuing WRD students. Amanda, you came into MAWRD after writing professionally for several years. Did your time in the program shift any parts of your writing career? For me, being in grad school

October 26, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

Course Spotlight – WRD 532: Content Strategy

Registration is now underway for Winter Quarter 2023! As our next installment in the Course Spotlight series, we’re highlighting another graduate class being offered next quarter, WRD 532: Content Strategy. I sat down with instructor Dr. Lisa Dush to learn more about the course and what students can look forward to learning. The Main Idea (and Major Assignments) As Dush wrote in the course description: “In WRD 532, we will explore the practice of content strategy in professional settings. You will learn how to assess existing organizational content, collaboratively develop a content strategy, and create guidelines and governance documents to

October 20, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

Updated Course Spotlight – WRD 540: Teaching Writing

As registration begins for Winter Quarter 2023, the WRD blog is excited to showcase several upcoming course offerings, beginning with Dr. Erin Workman’s graduate course, WRD 540: Teaching Writing. Here, Dr. Workman offers her insights into this year’s installment of the class and what students can look forward to. What has changed in the Teaching Writing course since its last blog Spotlight? A lot! WRD 540 was last offered in-person-only in WQ20, and our finals week meeting was moved online in accordance with the university’s response to the pandemic. In WQ21, WRD 540 met synchronously online, and in WQ22,

October 13, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

Event Recap: Ecological Rhetorics in vivo/in situ: Precarity Infrastructure Across Borders with Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon

On Wednesday, October 5, the DePaul WRD community was joined by WRD alumna Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon, who restarted the in-person Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders Speaker Series! Her presentation, “Ecological Rhetorics in vivo/in situ: Precarity Infrastructure Across Borders.” examined both “human and nonhuman elements of the rhetorical situation . . . in vivo/in situ,” that is, “in living bodies and on site.” Clary-Lemon, rhetorician and associate professor at the University of Waterloo, shared her examination of “precarity infrastructure”—measures that act as mitigation for human harms against the environment, often without success. In her presentation, Clary-Lemon discussed her field research on

October 6, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

Welcoming the New MAWRD Cohort

This quarter, WRD welcomed several new MA students from a range of academic and professional backgrounds. Here, each new student shares what they hope to learn and accomplish during their time in the program. Nan Denette is another first-year MAWRD student as well as a graduate assistant for DePaul’s Writing Center. She holds an MA in Religion, Literature & Visual Culture from the University of Chicago as well as a BA in Religious Studies and English Literature from the College of Wooster. Previously, she worked in writing centers and in nonprofit communications. While at DePaul, Nan is working toward teaching