Rhetoric at UC Berkeley

The Department of Rhetoric is a leading center for interdisciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences, committed to the study of rhetorical traditions from the classical to the contemporary eras.

Rhetoric Faculty James Porter giving 2019 Gray Lectures at Cambridge

Congratulations to Rhetoric faculty James Porter, who will be giving this years Gray Lectures at Cambridge University in May. Info on …

Summer 2019 Featured Course - Rhetoric 2: Confronting Arguments

Summer 2019 Featured Course - Rhetoric 2: Confronting Arguments Back by popular demand, the Rhetoric Department's dynamic public …

Rhetoric Graduate Student Linda Kinstler published in The New York Review of Books

Congratulations to Rhetoric Department grad student Linda Kinstler for her article recently published in the New York Review of …

Rhetoric Department Grad Students Marcos Cisneros and Keoni Correa win 2019 FLAS Fellowships

Rhetoric Department graduate students Marcos Cisneros and Keoni Correa have been awarded the Summer 2019 Foreign Language and Area …

Rhetoric Department Grad Students Michael Dalebout and Richard Grijalva win 2019 Outstanding GSI Award

Rhetoric Department graduate students Michael Dalebout and Richard Grijalva have been awarded the Outstanding GSI Award this …

The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World

Congratulations to Michael Wintroub, whose new book, The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World, has …