Like many scholars in our field, I’ve become fascinated by the affordances and challenges of new materialist thought to rhetorical inquiry. Specifically, I’m interested in how new materialism might inflect understandings of archival rhetoric, highlighting that “the archive” is not (only) a location or repository of rhetoric but is also, itself, an ongoing rhetorical achievement. And since my work considers the rhetorical formation of the Williams-Nichols Archive, an archive of LGBTQ documents, artifacts, and books collected by activist David Williams and now housed at the University of Louisville, I’ve been trying to explore how new materialist theories—primarily feminist-oriented new materialisms—and…
Author: Rick Wysocki
Rick Wysocki
I am a doctoral student in Rhetoric and Composition. My current research exists at the intersection of queer archives, new materialist rhetoric, and curatorial studies. Broadly, I am interested in the relationship between rhetoric and mediating technologies, including both analog media systems (such as physical archives) as well as digital ones. My scholarship has been published in Present Tense, Enculturation, and Kairos, where I also serve as an assistant editor. Feel free to go to rickwysocki.github.io to learn more about me and my work.
Presenters Laura Gonzalez, Michigan State University Cristina Sánchez-Martín, Illinois State University Lilian Mina, Auburn University at Montgomery Jacki Fiscus, University of Washington Ann Shivers-McNair, University of Washington Review I was thrilled, as a first time Computers and Writing presenter/attendee, to put faces onto the conversations I’ve been reading about and, increasingly, writing about in my own work. Just as exciting, however, were the ways that these conversations were extended, challenged, and pushed forward by the excellent panels throughout the conference. Panel A4, “Beyond a Single Language/Single Modality: Crossing Multimodal/Translingual Pedagogies” was one such panel, and asked its audience to consider how a translingual…