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Stony Brook Launches B.A. in Rhetoric and Writing: sign up now for Fall 2026 admission
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. Now in the Undergraduate Catalog
- Professors Joe Labriola, Stephanie Wade, and Kristie Schaulaff present DWR Diaglogues, a Reading and Discussions Series, in Humanities 1023 at 12:30 PM.
- The DWR presents The Rhetorical Escape Room on April 1, 2026! Solve the puzzle, escape the lobby, unlock a major (and lunch)! 12:30-1:30 pm in the Humanities Lobby.
- 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 Alignment" 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.
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