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RhetComp@StonyBrook

Promise of a Greater Community

The Department of Writing and Rhetoric’s RhetComp is open to all Stony Brook students interested in writing any genre. RhetComp promotes student expression by developing a sense of camaraderie among both Writing minors and students who enjoy writing, providing an open and positive environment for peer review and critique, and serving as a platform for Stony Brook University students to promote their own writing. In addition, RhetComp will teach its members how to improve their writing and editing effectively with a variety of different contests, workshops, and exercises. Our goal is to empower student writers at Stony Brook, and to introduce their work to the larger academic community.

News & Announcements

NEW DEGREE PROGRAM! Stony Brook launches B.A. in Rhetoric and Writing to start in Fall 2026.
Dr. Rita Nezami has been chosen as one of the recipients of this year's Chancellor's Award of Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Zoltan Majdik of North Dakota State University speaks on "A Rhetorical/Deliberative Framework for AI Language Model Aligment" April 14 in Humanities 1008 at 12:30 to 1:49 PM ET
Dr. Rita Nezami read from her latest translation in the Poetry Center on April 7, 2025, Tahar Ben Jelloun's autobiographical novel, The Public Scribe.
Dr. Ryan Mitchell published "Archives, Criticism, and Care: Tending to Archival Work in the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine" with Julie Homchick Crow in Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric.
Writing minor Laci Burton is URECA's Researcher of the Month--read her interview here.
Dr. Katherine Johnston's book, Profiles and Plotlines, has won the 2024 Book Prize by the Surveillance Studies Network.
Peter Elbow, former director of Writing and Rhetoric, dies at age 89. Read his obituary in the New York Times.