Maryland to Host 2019 RSA Summer Institute


June 3, 2019 to June 8, 2019
9:00 – 5:00 PM
Tawes Hall

The members of the rhetoric faculty in the departments of Communication and English at the University of Maryland are thrilled to host the eighth biennial Rhetoric Society of America Institute in summer 2019. As with Institutes before it, UMD will offer two ways for scholars to participate:

  • 8 week-long seminars Monday, June 3 to Thursday, June 6
  • 24 weekend workshops Thursday, June 6 to Saturday, June 8

Read more here. Submit an application for a seminar or workshop.

Look out Atlanta!

Cheló̱naRSA will be well represented in Atlanta, Georgia at the 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference this summer!

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Across our English and Communication departments, 13 of our Cheló̱naRSA members (and one amazing Faculty Sponsor!) will be presenting accepted papers at the conference. We are very proud to be representing Maryland with such strong scholarly work across the board.

Congratulations, again, to all our Maryland RSA Participants:


Rebecca Alt

“Vico’s ‘Ingenious Orator’: Toward a Theory of Imaginative Reasoning for Social Change”

“Identification and “Identity Psychosis”: the Rhetorical Failure of Burke’s “Perfect Scapegoat”


Jaclyn Bruner

“Reacting to Change: The Supreme Court, The Newseum, and the Public”


Megan Fitzmaurice

“Avenging the Ancestors: The Rhetorical Reimagination of Washington at The President’s House”

“Legacy for Sale: The Rosa Parks Papers and the Rhetoric of Commodification”


Elizabeth Gardner

“Children Campaigning: Night Messenger Boys on Strike”


Kim Hannah

“Same Song, Second Verse: Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, and the Rhetorical Reconstruction of Political Dynasties”


Lauren Hunter

“Coloring Between the Lines: Rhetorical Criticism of the National Association of Black Social Workers’ 1968 Position Statement”


Kristy Maddux

“Exposing Women: Deliberative Democracy at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893”


Thomas McCloskey

“Failed Campaigns as Opportune Moments: Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Kairos”


Cameron Mozafari

“Toward a Cognitive Rhetoric of Emotions: A Corpus Approach”


Annie Laurie Nichols

“I Am Black, Therefore I Am”: Stokely Carmichael’s Multiple Identification

Ethnographic Listening as Rhetorical Action


Jade Olson

“Presenting the White Paper: Whither Social Movement in Rhetorical Studies?”


Ruth Osorio

“Forty Weeks of Change: Embodied Rhetorics, Pregnancy, and Shifting Strategies of Disclosure.


Yvonne Slosarski

“The President’s Commission on the Status of Women: Negotiating Labor Feminism in the Cold War Context.”


Meridith Styer

“Reconsidering the “City on a Hill”: Examining Rhetorical Moments of Change in Puritan New England”