• LGBTQ rights
• social movement rhetoric

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• growing up

As I begin my final year in the PhD program, I find myself doing a lot of reflecting: reflecting on who I think I am (at the moment, anyway--forever the pragmatist) as a scholar for that important research statement, reflecting on my voice as a teacher for the ever-evolving teaching statement, reflecting on where I've come from and thinking about where I'd like to go as I put together my CV. And also reflecting on how I'd like to be better at all of the above. Like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book, I'm reflecting on finding flow.

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• wonderful scholar

Kurt literally founded the department in 1982 by himself. Here's Team Rhetoric at Texas A&M, from left to right (so to speak) sitting: Jim Aune, Jen Mercieca, Christopher Swift, Tasha Dubriwny; standing: Kurt Ritter, Jennifer Jones-Barbour, Leroy Dorsey. We are all immensely grateful.

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• motivating change
• presidential rhetoric

I watched Earth 2100 the other night. I thought it was horrid: an either-or set-up of what the world will be like depending on whether or not we all decide to be more Green or not. But it did get a discussion going in the room about how to motivate people...

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• newly minted PhDs

Congratulations to our own beloved Jim Brown, who is now DR. Jim Brown!

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• guest blogger

A heartfelt hug and thank-you to ALL of the beautiful and inspirational guest bloggers so far! The conversations have been engaging and fruitful for many, and we are so honored to be in such company.

This month, we are delighted to welcome the voice of John McKenzie.

John is a third year doctoral student in Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests mainly circulate around the construction of ideological narratives in periods of crisis, such as those surrounding Hurricane Katrina or the economic recession.

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• racism
• swine flu

I think someone on here just asked when the swine flu would be used in immigration/border debates. Well, check out the table of the Young Conservatives yesterday on UT's campus (West Mall is the tabling area of student interest groups). I am DELIGHTED there was an overwhelming counter-demonstration made up of students walking by...

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/immigration-protests-break-out-on-west-m...

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• the boy is back in town

Okay, well my title of this post is April Fool's, because I'm not really going up against D'Ho in a boxing match.

But he is coming. And you don't need a ticket to see me try to take him on--both during the Q&A session and outside in a demonstration.

UT's Young Conservatives have invited David Horowitz to lecture on UT's campus, April 9 at 7pm (Jackson Geological Sciences Building, Rm. 2.324).

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• new bloggers

...and that ain't no April Fool's joke! :)

Joshua Gunn is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Adjunct of Rhetoric and Writing, and an Idiocy Specialist at the University of Texas at Austin. His teaching and research obsesses on rhetorics of the ineffable, from the musical and religious to eros and agape. He pheels ya, too.

Thomas Rickert is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Purdue University.His areas of interest include histories and theories of rhetoric, critical theory, composition, cultural studies, and network culture.

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• new bloggers

Byron Hawk is an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. His recent book, A Counter History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, won JAC's W. Ross Winterowd Award for the best book published on composition theory in 2007 and received honorable mention for MLA's 2008 Mina Shaughnessy Prize for outstanding research publication in the field of teaching English language in 2008. He teaches courses in composition, rhetorical theory, and new media.

Byron's home page: http://mason.gmu.edu/~bhawk/
Byron's blog (digital b): http://digitalb.motime.com/

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