University of Cincinnati's Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Composition

Congratulations to Dr. Andy Cheng for successfully defending his dissertation "Taiwanese Cookbooks as Counterstory: Reclaiming Sovereignty Through the Foodways and Stories of the Island Nation." We are SO proud of you! 🥳

Please join us next week for our Rhetoric and Composition Research Colloquium with Nic Muranaka! Nic will present his dissertation research that leverages large-data analysis, close reading, and qualitative research to describe feelings surrounding AI in academic writing spaces. The talk will be held in ARTSCI 252 from 3:00-4:00pm on 4/4. Hope to see you there!

One of our stellar graduate students, Christine, attended the Writing Innovation Symposium at Marquette University to present her research display "A Place in the Pluralverse: Everyday Archives of our Many Worlds" As always, Christine's work is creative, artistic, and scholarly!

Proposals for the grad student conference at UC are due in just 10 days! We look forward to reading your proposals and supporting graduate student research. Please feel free to circulate this CFP widely!

Some of our RC grad students attended UC's English Graduate Student Association PowerPoint Party last night to share interesting tidbits from their research or general points of interest. Swipe to see some of the presentation titles 🤩

Our RC newsletter is now available! Click on the link to see what our graduate students have been up to 👇

UCRC Newsletter Nov 2025 Check out this US Letter designed by L.

Happening tonight! The link the register is here: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZwKsSv_kQomKAs6wiSrJcw #/registration

🚨Attention graduate students 🚨 Our CFP for our upcoming Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference has just been released! The theme, "Utopian Impulses in the 2020s," seeks proposals where presenters ask and share questions and ideas that entertain movement toward (rather than away) a vision of utopia. See the CFP for more details! Proposals are due December 19, 2025.

Grad student, Christine Ochs-Naderer won Narratively's flash essay + art contest! Her flash essay titled "The First Walk Without Dogs" is a touching and profound reflection on grief and finding a new normal. Nupu Press, the piece's judge, writes: "This entry does something remarkable. The text gives a moving snapshot of the past, present and future by using vivid, specific examples woven into a smooth narrative. The artwork too shows loving care and deliberation.”

Read Christine's essay here:

The First Walk Without Dogs Read the winning story from our flash essay + art contest!

Join us 1 week from today in Arts & Sciences 354 from 3-4pm for our Research Colloquium featuring Anna D'Orazio! Anna's presentation, "Everyday Writing and Learning Transfer Across the Lifespan," will overview her dissertation study design, her data collection process, her participants, and her emergent results

One(ish) week from today! Bring a lunch and hear about Christine's research!