Professor Ann Hill Duin recently visited Italy and Slovenia as part of Writing Studies' international partnership development.

Writing Studies Professor Richard Graff parnters with both the University of Minnesota's Interactive Visualization Lab (IV/LAB) and collaborators at Pennsylvania State University to virtually recreate the environments where ancient Greek rhetoric was performed, revealing new insights regarding the relationship between communication and the spaces and media in which it occurs.

Rhetoric and Communication Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault: Policy and Protocol Through Discourse, now available from Routledge.

Congratulations to all the Writing Studies students, faculty, and instructors presenting at the Conference on College Composition and Communication convention next week, March 15-18, 2017, in Portland, Oregon. The theme of the convention is "Cultivating Capacity, Creating Change."

Her talk titled, "Connecting silos through design thinking: Radical collaboration in the Wearables Research Collaboratory," presented the collective work of Joe Moses, Megan McGrath, Jason Tham, and herself.

Members of the Wearables Research Collaboratory try out the HTC Vive at the LATIS ETC Lab.

Dr. Laura Pigozzi strengthens the bonds between the University of Minnesota and local Twin Cities communities by engaging her students in service learning.

Through their partnership with iFixIt.com, Professor Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch leads her students in experiential learning, preparing them for life after college by giving them the opportunity to write web instructions for an external client.

Through this comparative study, based on extensive archival research and data-driven analysis, Kennedy illuminates the deeply situated nature of authorship, which is dependent on cultural approval and stable funding sources as much as it is on original genius and the ownership of intellectual property. Kennedy's work significantly revises long-held notions of authorial agency and autonomy, establishing the continuity of new writing projects such as wikis with longstanding authorial practices that she calls textual curation.