Event Recap: Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders with Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

As part of the Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders series, Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke from the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined us on February 17 to discuss her work around community and disaster discourse. Her presentation titled “Living Well with Floods: Reciprocity, Research, and Refusal in Wisconsin’s Hill Country” provided a fascinating look into how storytelling can create positive frameworks for real change within a community. Although Dr. Gottschalk Druschke admitted that the work could be difficult at times as the community members were wary of university types after being exploited in the past.  Even so, the larger response to increasing

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Event Preview: Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders with Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

This Winter Quarter the Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse department is offering a particularly special guest speaker in our Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders series. Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke is joining us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to share her work in oral history. Her presentation “Living Well with Floods: Reciprocity, Research, and Refusal in Wisconsin’s Hill Country” gives a glimpse into stories she’s collected around dealing with ever-increasing floods and the mutual aid that takes place after disaster strikes.  Dr. Gottschalk Druschke is well-versed in ecological and water-based rhetoric as they have been focuses of hers for years. In fact,

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