Society of the Third Sophistic Clemson RCID Doctoral Student Society Legacy Archive
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MFS Modern Fiction Studies is currently looking for a professional copyeditor. We’re a quarterly journal and publish roughly eight essays an issue, along with short book reviews in our general issues, which appear typically twice a...
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Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a...
RCID Student Jessie Reynolds-Clay published a book review for Fat Studies Journal . Check it out HERE ! This book is a solid resource for scholars in feminism, embodiment, rhetorics of health and medicine, and women's and gender studies.
Kaitlyn Samons defended her dissertation on July 9, 2024. Her dissertation is titled, “On Counter-Memes: A Rhetorical Study of Allyship in Social Media Memetics From 2015-2024” Samon’s committee included: Jan Rune Holmevik, (Emeritus...
It's that exciting time of year again! Nominations are in, and we're eagerly anticipating the announcement of our newest S3S Officers for the 2024-2025 school year! The ballots have made their way into current RCID students' and...
"Writing that story gave me the license to be big. It gave me the agency to be the commentator of my world rather than a passive participant in a world controlled by others." First year RCID Student, Shantell Hinton-Hill shares with us...
Amy Boone Mund defended her dissertation on April 10, 2024. Her dissertation is titled, “A Rhetorical-Sociological Understanding of Emotion" Boone Mund’s committee included: David Blakesley (Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies); June...
Haley Swartz was recently published in Women's Studies in Communication, Volume 47 Issue 1. Check out the article HERE ! Abstract: New materialist methods often frame networked images as dynamic, bouncing across the network in...
Heather Hartness defended her dissertation on November 16, 2023 Her dissertation is titled, "A Burkean Herstory: Liminal Narratives in the Life and Work of Kenneth Burke" Hartness’s committee included: David Blakesley (Chair,...
Shelley Lloyd defended her dissertation on November 10, 2023. Her dissertation is titled, "Trash, Fragments, and Breaking Things: Toward a Grotesque Cripistemology for Disabled Life Writing" Lloyd’s committee included: Dr. David...
Jonathan Burgess defended his dissertation on November 10, 2023. His dissertation is titled, “Forced Displacement, Forced Perspective: The Rhetorics of Refugee Experience" Burgess’s committee included: Cynthia Haynes (Chair, Professor...
Congratulations to Dr. Shelley Lloyd, Dr. Heather Hartness, and Dr. Jonathan Burgess!
RCID graduate Charlotte Lucke is now the managing editor for Clemson World . Clemson World tells the stories of alumni and donors thrice annually through creative and innovative writing, design, photography, video and technology. “I...
Care Feminisms, Crip Futures Call for Papers! See the entire call and more information here: https://wgssouth.org/conference RCID will be sponsoring the event with some funds, and Dr. Clare Mullaney encourages RCID students to submit a...
Many RCID Feminist Scholars presented at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Deconference in Atlanta, Georgia, this past weekend from September 30th-October 3rd! The theme of this year's conference was Feminisms And Reckonings: Interrogating...
An invitation! We wanted to take a moment to introduce a new graduate student organization: the LaVerne Williams-White Association (LWWA). This organization is in association with Call My Name . The LWWA aims to strengthen the...
Kaitlyn Samons and Justin "Shay" Easler were recently published in Itinera: Revista di filosofia e teoria delle arti! Click the photo below to see their work! Abstract Man has often written about the creation of the monster. The...
You're invited to a back to school gathering at Y Beach! Come on out and meet/catch up with your RCID community! See info below. When: Sat, August 19 from 3PM-5PM Where: 245 YMCA Cir, Seneca, SC 29678 Who: RCID Community Why: To...
Sheila Dodson defended her dissertation on July 18th, 2023! Her dissertation is titled, “Genealogical Blackness: Listening Rhetorically to Identities, Ancestors, and the Legacies of Slavery in Archival Spaces" Dodson’s committee...
Jennifer Duck Brown defended her dissertation on July 13th, 2023! Her dissertation is titled, "Social Distortion: Disinformation, Polarization, and the Politics of Identity in an Online World" Duck Brown's committee included: Cynthia...
Lane Riggs and Dr. Hannah Taylor were recently published in Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Volume 25 Issue 3, Spring 2023. Click each photo below to see their work!...
Hannah Taylor successfully defended her dissertation on June 16th, 2023! Her dissertation is titled, “Unruly Periods: Reproductive Futurities and the Rhetorics of Menstruation” Taylor’s committee included: Michelle Smith, English...
We are very excited to welcome our newest group of Ph.D. students to the RCID program here at Clemson! Learn a little about their research interests below! Follow us on Twitter for happenings and news!
See the job posting below. Title: Teaching Assistant Professor Vacancy ID: FAC0004561 Position Number (if applicable): 20055739, 20055349 Department: English and Comp Literature - 311500 This posting can be accessed directly at...
Sarah Richardson successfully defended her dissertation on June 5th, 2023! Her dissertation is titled, "Buried Forensics: A Rhetorical/Material Analysis of Gendered Death." Richardson's committee included: Michelle Smith, English...
Sethunya Mokoko successfully defended his dissertation on June 5th, 2023! His dissertation is titled, "Storytelling in Motion: Rhetorical Approaches to Autoethnography, Critical Pedagogy, and African Filmmaking" Mokoko's committee...
Dr. Sarah Richardson recently accepted a position in the Writing and Rhetoric Department at the University of Virginia. Sarah will be joining the UVA team this fall! "I’ve worked for this moment my entire life and it’s surreal it has...
S3S officially welcomes new officers for the 2023-2024 school year. The mission of the Society of the Third Sophistic is to "engender an atmosphere of professionalism, collegiality, unity, and scholarly prominence among its members in...
Congratulations to the Spring 2023 RCID graduates: Dr. Matt Chambers, Dr. Nicholas Rader, Dr. June Furr, Dr. Sarah Cooper and Dr. David Whaley-Wheems! Dr. Chamber graduated December 2022.
RCID alum Dr. Jacob Richter recently accepted a position as a Teaching Assistant Professor of Writing at the George Washington University in Washington DC. Congratulations, Jacob! Dr. Richter was a Visiting Assistant Professor of...
David Whaley-Weems successfully presented his dissertation defense on April 5, 2023, via Zoom. The defense started with David's presentation, followed by Q&A with the public audience. His dissertation is titled, "The Erasure of Rural...
June Furr successfully presented her dissertation defense on April 6, 2023, via Zoom. Her dissertation is titled, "Circumventing Ableism: A Grounded Theory Study Exploring Rhetorical Caregiver Strategies to Promote a Positive Disability...
Nicholas Rader successfully defended his dissertation on April 7, 2023, on Zoom. His dissertation is titled, "The Myth of Perfection: Charting the Rhetoric of Veteran Disability for a Course to Stability." His committee included: Dr....
First-year Gabrielle Wilkosz was recently awarded the Thomas E. Douglass Award for Excellence in Teaching at the honors and awards ceremony in March. Gabrielle writes: "Clemson University's College of Architecture, Arts & Humanities...
Rebecca Rea Ross successfully passed her comprehensive exams on March 28. She is now a Candidate for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Rebecca's research analyzes agency, belief, and the role of women in Evangelical and...
The University of Texas at Austin is hiring through OnRamps. OnRamps is one of The University of Texas at Austin’s signature initiatives designed to expand access to high-quality educational opportunities across the state of Texas. The...
Dr. Mari Ramler, Associate Professor of English at Tennessee Tech University, was recently published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (RSQ). Her article is titled, "When God Hurts: The Rhetoric of Religious Trauma as Epistemic Pain." The...
The Department of Mass Communications invites applications for a tenure-track Instructor/Assistant Professor of Mass Communications with expertise in Broadcast Journalism for the Fall 2023 semester. The candidate should have completed a...
Responsibilities The Department of Mass Communications invites applications for a tenure-track Instructor/Assistant Professor of Mass Communications with expertise in Public Relations for the Fall 2023 semester. The candidate should...
Amy Boone Mund successfully passed her RCID comprehensive examinations on Friday, March 10. Her comprehensive exams were titled "Affect Labeling in the Media: The Socialization, Communication, and Rhetoric of Emotion." Amy has now...
The Rhetoric Society of America Graduate Chapter at the University of South Carolina presents the 2023 Carolina Rhetoric Graduate Conference. The conference encourages you to consider Free Play as both a concept and an academic...
Sarah Cooper, PhD, passed her dissertation defense on Feb. 27. Dr. Cooper's presentation was on her dissertation “'We Felt Powerful and Rebellious': Contested Spaces, Lesbian Identity, and the Evolution of Separatism." Her dissertation...
PhD candidate Hannah Taylor recently accepted a position at Duke University. Hannah will be joining the Thompson Writing Program at Duke in the fall. "Now that the contract is signed and my shirt has arrived, I’m literally beyond...
Many RCID alumni and current students presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago from February 15-18, 2023. Dr. Whitney Jordan Adams, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at...
Dr. Mari Ramler, Associate Professor of English at Tennessee Tech University, was recently published in Taco Bell Quarterly, Volume 6. Her poem is titled "Dear White Women," and can be read here . The letters to the editors write in...
Dr. Jacob Richter, Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, was just published in the Computers and Composition journal. His article argues that rhetorical invention in social media environments includes key...
Dr. Eda Özyeşilpınar published in the themed issue “Reconfiguring Dissettlement: Fugitive Bodies in Fungible Places,” edited by Michael Lechuga and John Ackerman. "Working on this article was a journey-lots of revisions and...
The Writing and Rhetoric Program at the University of Virginia invites applications for three Assistant Professors of English, general faculty, beginning August 25, 2023. These are three-year, tenure-ineligible appointments with the...
There are four SWIP sessions scheduled for the spring semester. The sessions are as follows. Check your email for Zoom information! DATE: Monday, Feb. 13th from 5PM - 6PM EST. GUESTS: Oren Bruton, Technical Writing SUB: Tech...
Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Technical Communication Johns Hopkins University The Professional Communication Program at Johns Hopkins University seeks candidates for a teaching-track faculty position in technical writing and...
POSITION OVERVIEW Percent time: 100% Anticipated start: July 1, 2023 APPLICATION WINDOW: Open date: December 5, 2022 Next review date: Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by...
RCID student Matt Chambers graduated today, Dec. 21, 2022. Congratulations, Dr. Chambers! Dr. Jan Holmevik wrote on his Facebook: "It was a pleasure and a privilege to have been part of your doctoral journey. Congratulations on...
Dr. Eda Özyeşilpınar was awarded the Teaching Initiative Award for Early Career Faculty for 2022 at Illinois State University. This is her third year teaching English at Illinois State University. Every year, ISU recognizes its most...
One RCID alum, one PhD candidate, and two RCID students were published in Composition Forum, Issue 50! Congratulations, Hannah, Haley, Jacob, and Mary! The four penned a program profile titled, "Rethinking the Rhet Comp PhD: An...
Andrew Moore is now a PhD candidate! He officially passed his comprehensive examinations today, Dec. 12. "Thanks so much to my committee and cohort for their support, and to my wife for holding down the fort while her husband was more...
Please join me in congratulating Heather Hartness Bodiford for successfully defending her RCID comprehensive exams on Dec 6. Heather is now ABD! Congratulations, Heather!
Julia Longaker passed her fourth RCID exam, which was a multimedia presentation on her dissertation topic. Her fourth exam took place on Dec. 5. She is now ABD! Congratulations, Julia!
Kaitlyn Samons successfully passed her RCID examinations today! She is now officially a candidate for the degree of PhD. Her dissertation committee includes Drs. Jan Holmevik, Darren Linvill, Gabriel Hankins, and Patrick Warren....
Position Summary Belmont Abbey College invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English with a specialization in Writing. Job Responsibilities The successful candidate will contribute to a vibrant and expanding Writing minor...
Louisiana State University is set to host the 6th Annual Languages and Literatures Conference virtually from March 9-11, 2023. The theme is "Conflict: Global Perspectives." The conference asks participants to consider the relationship...
Rebecca Rea Ross, PhD candidate Jennifer Duck Brown, and William Ordeman recently presented at the National Communication Association annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference was from November 17-20, 2022. The...
Drs. Diane Beltran and Eda Özyeşilpınar recently had their chapter, "Digital Story-Mapping" published in the collection Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric: Centering Positionality in Computers and...
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference was supposed to be in Jacksonville, Florida, this past weekend, but it was moved virtually because of the hurricane. Heather Hartness Bodiford presented some of her...
Hannah Taylor, PhD candidate, was published in the book collection, "Who Makes the Franchise?" About the book: Fans and the billion-dollar franchises in which they participate have together become powerful agents within popular culture....
Job Description: The English Department at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge invites applications for a tenure‐track position in English Education at the level of assistant professor to begin August 2023. Teaching...
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PhD candidate Hannah Taylor recently traveled to the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Dublin, Ireland. The theme of the conference was "Decolonizing the Internet," and the conference opened with a profound keynote about...
In the latest episode of her podcast, Grounded on Purpose, PhD candidate Jennifer Duck Brown interviews Richard English, Professor of Politics at Queen's University, Belfast, where he is also Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell...
Institution SD School of Mines Working Title Assistant Professor of English Posting Number F01055P Department SDSMT-Humanities and Social Sciences Physical Location of Position (City) Rapid City Posting Text The Department of Humanities...
Job no: 497192 Work type: Faculty Location: Boise, ID Categories: Marketing and Communications, College of Arts & Sciences Job Summary The Department of Communication invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in...
College of the Atlantic (COA) is searching for a faculty member in writing and rhetoric to serve as the director of COA's writing program. COA is a highly interdisciplinary college in Bar Harbor, Maine. We have roughly 350 students and...
Lecturer in Composition and Rhetoric (English) Job ID 25309 Location Brooklyn College Full/Part Time Full-Time Regular/Temporary Regular FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) invites...
RCID student Haley Swartz and Dr. Michelle Smith were recently published in Peitho with their article "An Archival Analysis of the "Material Turn" of Feminist Rhetorics." The article was published in Peitho Volume 24, Issue 4. The...
Assistant Professor - Digital Technology and Culture Apply locations Pullman, WA time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R-7279 Title: 270-NN - Assistant Professor Business Title: Assistant Professor -...
Assistant Professor of Digital Culture & Design Apply for this Job Posting Details Posting Summary Classification Code UG74 Pay Band 00 Internal Title Assistant Professor of Digital Culture & Design Department English Position Type PFAC...
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies Category: Liberal Arts Subscribe: Department: English Locations: El Paso, TX Posted: Sep 28, 2022 Closes: Open Until Filled Type: Full-time Ref. No.: 22-12 Position ID: 153843 Share...
Teaching Assistant Professor in Composition Employer University of Pittsburgh -- English Department Location details Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Salary Salary will be competitive and commensurate with e Ref Requisition# 22008422...
First year Gabrielle Wilkosz won the preliminary rounds for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and came in first place in the PhD Student and Masters Student Competition. Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication...
Congratulations to our own Gabrielle Wilkosz! Clemson University’s award-winning poet Su Cho and prose writer Anthony Correale will read at the 2022 Writers’ Harvest, a literary benefit reading for Clemson University’s Paw Pantry on...
On Monday, October 24, we are honored to present as our 146th guest speaker on research, Dr. Lauren Woolbright, Associate Professor and Chair of Communication and New Media Studies at Alma College in Michigan. An RCID graduate, Dr....
The Big Rhetorical Podcast Fellowship Program The Big Rhetorical Podcast promotes the work of graduate students on the podcast, particularly through our Emerging Scholar Series. This is a paid opportunity. Payment is $200. The Big...
Call for proposals Deadline: October 31, 2022 On June 8–10, 2023, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), in partnership with Pratt Institute , will be guests on Lenapehoking—the traditional...
HASTAC Scholars 2022 - 2024 Applications Are Open! Edit: Applications for the 2022-2024 Cohort are now due November 15! The deadline was extended. Join a community of scholars dedicated to rethinking pedagogy, learning, research, and...
Clemson University: College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities: English Location Clemson, SC Open Date Sep 30, 2022 Description Advanced Assistant/Associate Professor in English, Director of First-Year Composition Clemson University’s...
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Apply for this Job Please see Special Instructions for more details. Interested candidates should send (1) a cover letter that addresses all minimum and any preferred qualifications met; (2) curriculum...
Assistant Professor-Tenure System Job no: 818542 Work type: Faculty/Academic Staff Major Administrative Unit / College: College Of Arts And Letters Department: Writing Rhetoric And American Culture 10004054 Sub Area: FAS- Fac./Acad...
The deadline for submitting proposals for the IWAC 2023 conference at Clemson has been extended to October 31. IWAC 2023 is the 16th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. The conference chairs would love to have...
Search for Editor and Host Institution Technical Communication Quarterly The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) is seeking an editor and institutional home for Technical Communication Quarterly for a five-year,...
Dr. Jacob Richter, and Daniel Liddle, Victoria Braegger, Allison Durazzi, Yoonji Kim, Elena Kalodner-Martin co-wrote a proceeding at SIGDOC 2022. This proceeding was titled: "Channeling Experience: Reflections on Developing a Technical...
The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC) seeks an Associate Editor for Peitho ( https://cfshrc.org/peitho-journal/ ), its quarterly peer-reviewed online journal. The Associate Editor holds...
Call for Participation/Proposals The University of Strasbourg Symposium on Usability and Design (Done in collaboration with Louisiana Tech University) 31 March-1 April 2023 in Strasbourg, France Symposium Theme: Re-thinking Usability...
Dr. Jordan Frith, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, and Dr. Kailan Smith Sindelar, recent RCID alum and Assistant Professor of Technical Writing at the University of North Florida, co-presented at SIGDOC in Boston,...
Assistant Professor in Race and Communication Posting Number req22046 Employment Type Faculty Faculty Type Tenure/Tenure-Track Hiring Department Communication Journalism (839A) Academic Location College of Arts & Sciences Campus Main -...
Texas A&M University: College of Arts & Sciences: English Location College Station Open Date Oct 05, 2022 Deadline Nov 15, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description The Department of English at Texas A&M University invites applicants...
The Communication and Digital Culture Area hosts presentations and panels that explore human communication in an increasingly digital landscape. This area hosts a wide spectrum of presentations that interrogate how rhetorics and...
Assistant/Associate Professor Tenure System Apply now J ob no: 816399 Work type: Faculty/Academic Staff Major Administrative Unit / College: College Of Communication Arts Sciences Department: Media And Information 10010830 Sub Area:...
Posting Details The University of Utah, an AA/EO employer, encourages applications from women and minorities, and provides reasonable accommodation to the known disabilities of applicants and employees.The University of Utah values...
Posting Details The University of Utah, an AA/EO employer, encourages applications from women and minorities, and provides reasonable accommodation to the known disabilities of applicants and employees.The University of Utah values...
Teaching Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies (Film Program, English Department) English - Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh - ( 22007979 ) The Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh seeks an appointment-stream Teaching...
Job ID: 107118 Location: Clemson University Job Code: AH4000 Full/Part Time: Full-Time Regular/Temporary: Temporary - Time Limited JOB SUMMARY: Clemson University is looking for a Program Coordinator for Call My Name to fulfill the...
Assistant Professor - Communication Mount St. Mary's University Emmitsburg, MD Apply on Institution's Website Type: Full-Time Posted: 09/20/2022 Application Due: Open Until Filled Category: Media and Communication Studies The Department...
Strangely Rhetorical establishes the groundwork for strangeness as a lens under the broader interdisciplinary umbrella of rhetoric and composition and shares a series of rhetorical devices for practically thinking about how compositions...
English Professor Salary: Depends on Qualifications Location: Lexington County, SC Job Type: FTE - Full-Time Agency: Midlands Technical College Job Number: 3246 Closing: 9/23/2022 11:59 PM Eastern Class Code: UG70 Position Number:...
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship Composition, Business/Technical Communication, and Digital Pedagogy Application deadline for optimal consideration: October 1, 2022 Job Description The Writing and Communication Program (WCP)...
The 16th International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference will be held in June 2023 at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. It will take place June 14 through June 17, 2023. IWAC is a biennial conference for...
Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies (CRES) Below you will find the details for the position including any supplementary documentation and questions you should review before applying for the opening. To apply for the position,...
Dr. A.D. Carson was published by Inside Higher Ed, with an article titled, "Colleges and Universities Need More Rappers." Carson is assistant professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia. If more students were exposed to the...
Please see Special Instructions for more details. To apply applicants should go to http://uta.peopleadmin.com/ and submit the following materials by November 4, 2022 in order to ensure consideration: A cover letter that explains the...
UW-EAU CLAIRE – EAU CLAIRE CAMPUS English Full Time, Faculty/Instructional Official Title: Assistant Professor Job ID: #18799 Date Posted: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022 Apply by: Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 | To ensure consideration, completed...
The Department of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities. Applicants must have evidence of a research agenda and a commitment...
The English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Composition and Rhetoric. The successful candidate will support the department’s Composition and Rhetoric unit in the area of...
Description DIGITAL MEDIA CULTURES: The Department of Communication Studies and the Department of Cinema & Media Arts at Vanderbilt University seek a joint-appointed scholar at the rank of Assistant Professor, on the tenure-track,...
Description The Department of Communication at Clemson University invites applications for a tenure-line position in communication to begin August 15, 2023. The appointment will be at the assistant professor level. Applicants should...
Context The work of compositionists already exists in a “hybrid” space: at the intersection of humanities and social sciences, engaged directly in classrooms but also in learning spaces beyond, blending traditional textual practices...
Clemson native and first-year RCID student Jaquial Durham brings his documentary Southern Prison Culture back to his hometown and Clemson University. "Southern Prison Culture" uncovers the very real inhumane conditions within the walls...
Dr. Mari Ramler, Associate Professor at Tennessee Tech University, was given the Award for Excellence in Creative Inquiry (Instruction) for her Communicating in the Professions course at the university. Dr. Ramler has also been awarded...
Dr. A.D. Carson, assistant professor of Hip-Hop in the Department of Music at the University of Virginia, had an essay published by Scalawag Magazine recently. The essay is titled, "Beyond a Better Hell/Talking to Ghosts: A...
Description The Rhetoric Program in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon seeks a specialist in Rhetoric at the rank of tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor beginning August in 2023. We are looking for a new colleague...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is launching the Center for Teaching and Research in Writing. The CTRW harnesses the intellectual power of its constituent programs, and opens up those programs as research sites to researchers and...
Dr. Karyn Campbell, Assistant Professor of Communication/Mass Communication at North Greenville University, had an article published in the Journal of Media Ethics in 2021. The article is titled, "Determinants of Attitudes toward...
The first RCID get together of the 2022-23 Academic Year was hosted by Dr. Blakesley and his wife on Sept. 3 and was a success! A 360-camera and mic was set up so that online students could join in on the fun. Many thanks to Dr....
Congratulations to those who were hooded in May and August! We are so proud of you! May graduates included: Drs. Josh Loebner , Michael Caves, Shauna Chung, Charlotte Lucke , Cody Hunter, and Kristin Santa Maria. August graduates...
Many RCID alumni and current students attended the 20th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America conference, hosted in Baltimore, Maryland from May 26-29. RCID students hosted panels and presented papers. Dr. Cynthia Haynes hosted a panel...
In 2021, RCID won the Rhetoric Society of America's Outstanding Graduate Student Chapter Award. This award is given to outstanding student chapters each year. The Society of the Third Sophistic chapter was selected because of its robust...
Your S3S Officers for the 2022-23 Academic Year are: President – Kaitlyn Samons Vice President – Haley Swartz Vice President of Online Affairs – Jennifer Duck Professional Development Coordinator – William Orderman Archivist – Heather...
The Department of Business Administration in the Williams School of Commerce, Economics & Politics at Washington and Lee University invites applications for a position as an assistant professor in business communication. The position...
Texas Tech University - Department of English Assistant or Associate Professor of Technical Communication & Rhetoric Position Description Contributes to the university’s mission through teaching, research and service, some variation by...
The first annual Victor J. Vitanza Outstanding Dissertation Award was awarded to Dr. Victoria Houser in May 2022 for her 2021 dissertation. Dr. Cynthia Haynes presented the award to Dr. Houser. During this presentation, Dr. Haynes said,...
Global Rhetorical Traditions (edited by Hui Wu and Tarez Graban) is expected to be published by Parlor Press in 2022. Twenty-eight multilingual scholars contributed to this anthology, and the editors are thankful for all the wonderful...
[gallery type="slideshow" size="large" ids="457,456,455"] Three RCID students traveled to North Carolina State University in Raleigh to present their research at the annual Carolina Rhetoric Conference (CRC). First-year students Stephen...
In July, RCID Faculty, Students, and Alumni made a significant impression at the Kenneth Burke Society Conference 2014: Attitudes Towards Technology/Technology's Attitudes . RCID faculty Steve Katz and David Blakesley presented in...
Your S3S Officers for the 2014-15 Academic Year are: President – Matthew Osborne Vice President – Hayley Zertuche Secretary – Jay Jacobs Development/RSA Coordinator – Kristen Gay Archivist – A.D. Carson RCID Advisory Council – Eric Hall...
The Society of Sophistic that is Third headed down to Anderson last weekend to build a wheelchair ramp with the friendly folks at ReWiGo Ministries . We braved a genuine South Carolina snowfall , taught our co-volunteers from Clemson...
A selection of RCID student publications in 2012: Byrum, Kristie, “How (and Why) to Create A Corporate Social Responsibility Platform.” A Guide to Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility & Green PR. Vol. 4. by PR News. Access...
Much fun and festivities were had at the annual S3S Christmas Party. Jan and Cynthia were kind enough to host the festivities and the decorations were excellent. Many Kudos to Jimmy and Lauren Butts for carrying on the tradition of...
The gang put on their best re-presentations of that which they weren't last weekend for the annual S3S Halloween Party! The spooky spectacular included but was not limited to orange rice krispy treats, corporeally interactive html5,...
Congratulations to our many Graduate Teaching Assistants who received a Clemson "Difference Makers" award! An anonymous survey conducted by University Housing gave on-campus students the opportunity to identify a particularly impacting...
S3S members reached out to the community last weekend in constructing a wheelchair ramp for an Easley, SC household. Check it out: [caption id="attachment_204" align="alignleft" width="316"] G. Southergill[/caption] [caption...
S3S wants to congratulate this year's graduates as well as thank our generous hosts who provided warm hospitality for our S3S parties throughout the year. Many thanks to our hosts --- Sharon, Don, and Cheyenne Henry Dave and Julie...
Congratulations to 4th-year RCID candidates (and soon-to-be graduates) on their newly accepted faculty positions across the country: Nicole McFarlane has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English (Rhetoric/Composition)...
Congratulations to third-year RCID doctoral candidate and S3S vice president, Lauren Mitchell for passing her comprehensive/qualifying exams! On Tuesday, March 13, in the beautiful new Lee Hall addition, Lauren delivered her "4th Exam"...
In February, S3S successfully hosted the Carolina Rhetoric Conference , inviting graduate students interested in rhetoric from across the Carolinas to participate in two days of networking and idea sharing. The conference included a...
Rock Hill, SC's newspaper The Herald is running full spread features as part of their promotion for the traveling Peanuts Naturally exhibit coming to the York County Museum . As part of their first feature, Herald editor Paul Osmundson...
Third-year RCID doctoral candidate Jimmy Butts passed his comprehensive/qualifying exams this past Leap Day, finishing with his multi-modal/oral presentation (fourth exam) titled: "Seven Strange Attractors: How to Repent! and Be...
S3S's 2010-2011 Vice President and now RCID doctoral candidate Steve Holmes passed his comprehensive/qualifying exams, back in December. On December 9, Steve presented his multimodal portion of the exams, titled, "Electrate Invention in...
Welcome to 2012! As we begin the new year/semester, we want to make note of some great articles and reviews from our current S3S members ! Check out these works published over the past semester: Colton, Jared. Review of Inessential...
Many thanks to the Collamati family for hosting another wonderful annual holiday party! 4th-year RCID candidate Anthony Collamati (pictured) and his wife Keri hosted the party at their home, complete with the annual secret-recipe...
RSA Announces Graduate Student Special Event Award [RePosted from RSA website] RSA is proud to announce that Clemson University’s RSA Student Chapter is the sole recipient of the 2011-2012 RSA Graduate Student Special Event Award. They...
Third-year RCID student Walter Iriarte has returned from a trip to D.C. where he visited a special exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History on theChilean Mine Rescue . Because the rescue attracted over a billion viewers...
Thanks to Dr. Dave Blakesley and his family for hosting a wonderful October S3S party this past Saturday. We had a great turnout and great food (not to mention use of the outstanding telescope, the fire-pit by the pool, and a chance to...
Clemson's S3S/RCID program to host the 2012 Carolina Rhetoric Conference, February 17-18. Submissions (abstracts) are due Dec. 1st by email ( clemsoncrc2012@gmail.com ). There will be 3 session types : Individual Presentations...
Third year RCID doctoral candidate Stephen Lind successfully completed his Exams on September 30th. The multi-modal component of his Exams included an exhibit of collectibles and rarities from the Peanuts franchise, followed by a...
Hello all you fine rhetors. Since you're all stuck in the snow today, you should write an abstract instead. The Carolina Rhetorics Conference deadline is THIS FRIDAY, January 15th . So, get yer abstracts together kiddos. And e-mail them...
The Clemson Society for the Third Sophistic has officially elected Nicole McFarlane to fulfill the officer role of S3S/RSA Coordinator. The community felt that, with the addition of new responsibilities for the S3S, we needed someone to...
The November S3S gathering was filled with toasty marshmallowy goodness. Folks came out to the new Butts household in Central. Fun was had by many. The little ones of our bunch giggled around the fire. Pictures can be seen below... Dr....
Hello out there in the rhetoric world. It's been a while since this blog has been updated; however, there is some important news to go down in the archives! The Society of the 3rd Sophistic has become an official Rhetoric Society of...
Every school year needs an initiation rite. Three years ago they used to stuff a first-year student full of Skittles and whack him with an old laptop. We've come a long way. In the weeks since, Bernard, Jimmy, Lauren, Juanrong, Walter,...
Anthony returns with insightful reflections for the new year... “ And that over there, that over there is Georgia .” For S3S, 2009 began as it should: with a party. The population of Six Mile, South Carolina (553) grew by almost 10%...
Our December s3s event, kindly hosted by the Collamatis, proved to be one of the best-attended and most-festive so far. Please see some of these facebook-based collections of pictures for evidence: from Christina Hung from Alicyn Butler...
We're a bit behind on our highlights for the last s3s event, but here's a sense of the evening. Apologies for the redundant zooming image motion -- iWeb mildly thwarted me.
Alas, in a terrible oversight, I never published anything about our terrific s3s event in October, hosted kindly by Donna Reiss and Art Young! This event was made particularly notable by the following: an exciting tour of downtown...
This was created by Anthony Collamati, with the help (to varying degrees) of other RCID students. It has been delivered to deans of Clemson University as of today.
ATTW 12th Annual ATTW Conference - March 11th, 2009 - San Francisco, CA Theme: Beyond Work? Technical Communication in Professional, Community, & Social Networks CFP deadline: 300 word proposals are due October 31st, 2008...
Halfway through September, a second S3S gathering, the Vitanzas reopen their home (is it ever closed?), and the surprises keep coming. So here they are, moments of interest, objects of curiosity, and observations of no particular...
Justin makes really nice newsletters. Amanda sent me a sample, and after reading through it, one word stuck with me: Recipes. Recipes? How did the man collect all this RCID trivia, keep up with what was going on from firstyears to...
On Friday, 29 August 2008, the Society of the 3rd Sophistic (or 's3s', or, as I've always fondly considered it, 'the nerd party') recommenced monthly gathering for the third time. As has become tradition, the Vitanzas kindly hosted this...
Discussions for an informal society of sorts began among RCID in December 2006, initially through the suggestion of vv. Justin Hodgson served as herald for this call, planning, organizing, coaxing and encouraging us into what we are...