News from DePaul University's Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse
This year, the MA in WRD and MA in NMS programs graduated a total of 31 students! Congratulations to our graduates and best wishes in your future endeavors.
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WRD students, alumni, and faculty share their recent professional and academic achievements. Students & Alumni Sarah Brown (MA in WRD 2010) presented “The Girl Scout Career Model: Open Badging and Representations of Learning” at CCCC in Indianapolis, Indiana in March. Eric Iberri (MA in WRD 2010) recently began working as a Proposal Editor for SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. Stephanie Irvine (MA in WRD 2011) quit her full-time marketing job in February to pursue an independent writing career.
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The department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University is pleased to welcome Dr. Chris Thaiss as the spring quarter WRD Speaker Series presenter. On Wednesday, April 16th, Dr. Thaiss will give his talk “Writing Programs Worldwide.” Dr. Chris Thaiss is Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Professor in the University Writing Program (UWP) of the University of California at Davis. A member of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Graduate Group at UCD, he also serves as Principal Investigator of the Area 3 Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project.
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WRD alumni and faculty share their recent professional and academic achievements. Alumni Jessica Vician (MA in NMS 2013) and colleague Libby VanWhy (MS in HCI 2014) launched YOUparent.com, a parenting website that provides community support for child success, in December 2013. Laura Collins (MA in NMS 2013) designed the winning logo for the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation’s new project, Gen Ops Plus. The project expands grant-making opportunities for Chicago-region art groups. Ana Milena Ribero (MA in WRD 2009) received the Scholars for the Dream Award from the Conference for College Composition and Communication.
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This quarter, we feature two students who recently graduated from the MA in WRD and the Teaching Apprenticeship Program (TAP). Joe Anderson and Mark Lazio both received MA in WRD 2013. Here, they share with us how the TAP program helped them achieve their academic and post-graduation goals.
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On Tuesday, February 11, WRD Professor Christine Skolnik participated in “Ecological Imaginings,” an interdisciplinary panel discussion sponsored by DePaul’s Institute for Nature and Culture. In her talk, “Imagined Ecofutures,” Skolnik explored the persuasive, imaginative rhetoric of visual urban plans and their implications for ecological restoration. Skolnik, who holds a PhD in English and Rhetoric from Penn State, recently completed an MA in Urban Sustainability and is a faculty advisor for the Institute for Nature and Culture.
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In AQ 2013, students in NMS 509/WRD 530: Multimedia Content Strategy partnered with three nonprofit organizations to explore how organizations can strategically collect and use photographs and video. The course offered students the chance to apply practical and critical readings on content strategy to the real-world cases of their partner organizations. The idea for this course came from Assistant Professor and Director of MA in WRD Lisa Dush’s interest in new media storytelling in organizations.
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Our latest newsletter profiled Professor Jason Schneider’s summer travels to Huaqiao University. This teaching opportunity is a product of the connections that Schneider and WRD Chair Peter Vandenberg forged during those visits. For TESOL grads interested in teaching abroad, the connection between DePaul and Huaqiao makes the process much more accessible. Schneider stated that DePaul is “offering an opportunity to go abroad in which much of the leg work and administrative work has already been completed.”
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Between the autumn and winter quarters, the WRD department moved from McGaw Hall to a new home on the third floor of the Schmitt Academic Center. WRD shares the third floor with the Department of Modern Languages, and the University Center for Writing-based Learning is one floor below. The new space offers the department a more central location on campus, improved technology spaces, and new opportunities for student activities. Directly across the hall from the department is the WRD Invention Lab. Housed in SAC 302, the lab is a space for graduate and undergraduate students to work collaboratively. NMS graduate
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