Archive: Winnie Wong
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Spring 2021 New Course: Junior Proseminar
December 4, 2020
Rhetoric 198: Supervised Group Study: 1-unit Junior Proseminar This 1-unit biweekly workshop provides third-year students with a forum to discuss approaches and topics for an Honors Thesis or other sustained research projects. During the semester, students will be introduced to strategies for advanced academic research and writing, and to important resources available through the department and the university. The class culminates in a provisional project…
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Undergraduates: Join the Rhetoric Society!
September 28, 2020
The Rhetoric Society at Berkeley is an academic club with a mission to create an open environment for discussion through a rhetorical lens. Our 2020-21 Rhetoric Society leaders are Savon Bardell, Max Garber, Helena Park, and Keaton Whittaker. All undergraduates in Rhetoric are encouraged to join our virtual meetings, events, and study sessions this semester. To join and to receive news about upcoming events, please fill…
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Pandemic Diaries
August 29, 2020
Recent additions to the Pandemic Diaries by Rhetoric graduate and undergraduate students. “Sarcodes,” a SF short story by Eva Hannan ’22 “Sonnets” by Chester-Jehu Aravalo ’21 “Thoughts towards a New Home,” by Devin Choudhury The Art of Writing’s Pandemic Diaries are edited by Linda Kinstler
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Felipe R. Gutterriez
June 30, 2020
With great sadness, the Department of Rhetoric mourns the passing of Felipe R. Gutterriez, a beloved colleague and teacher. For many decades a model of intellectual generosity and rhetorical engagement, Felipe continues to serve as an inspiration to his students and peers. He came to Rhetoric at Berkeley as a graduate student in 1987. As a student then teacher in the Department until his retirement…
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Fumi Okiji joins Rhetoric
June 19, 2020
The Rhetoric Department welcomes Fumi Okiji to the faculty. Prof. Okiji received her Ph.D. in critical theory from Royal Holloway College, University of London. Prof. Okiji was a performing jazz vocalist based in London, a Black Arts Postdoctoral Fellow in Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, and formerly assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts,…
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Rhetoric-in-Action Award 2020 Recipient Jessele Perez
June 17, 2020
Every year, the Rhetoric Department presents an award to a graduating Rhetoric major who has demonstrated academic excellence and has been actively involved in either community service, art practice and performance or professional work outside the academy and department. This year’s extraordinary events have shown the extent to which meaningful and transformative action also takes place in the private sphere, which has been reconfigured under…
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Rhetoric Thesis Award 2020 Recipient Seán McGovern
June 16, 2020
The Rhetoric Department proudly names Seán McGovern recipient of its 2020 Thesis Award. Seán’s Honor’s Thesis, “The Invisible Wound: Toward a Neuropathology of Everyday Life,” is an exceptional work of scholarship. It was supervised by Prof. David Bates. Seán is graduating in 2020 with a double major in Rhetoric and Molecular & Cell Biology, and is a member of the Berkeley Chamber Orchestra and the…
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2020 Rhetoric Department Citation Awarded to Mateo Montoya
June 16, 2020
The 2020 Rhetoric Department Citation is awarded to graduating senior Mateo Montoya. Mateo Montoya is graduating with honor’s in Rhetoric with a minor in History. His honor’s thesis, “The French State in Public View: Jacques Necker’s Compte rendu au roi (1781) and its Legacy,” is a study of state transparency and its effect on empowering citizens. A native of Eureka, CA, at Berkeley, Mateo served as a caseworker…
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2020 Rhetoric Graduates
June 15, 2020
Congratulations to the UC Berkeley Class of 2020 Graduating Rhetoric Majors Babakhani, Sintia | Baji, Tibor S. | Barnes, Alecia A | Cruz, Francisco | Damron-Hall, Preston V De Bruin, Isabella Marjorie Mae | Diolazo, Devyn M | Ge, Christina S | Ghasemiyeh, Nasim Gonzalez, Taylor Nicole Tahlia | Guirguis, Elisabeth | Ha, Minji | Harrison, Joseph Victor Haughton, Katherine Silane | Hayes,…
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Outstanding GSI Awards 2019-2020
June 14, 2020
Rhetoric Ph.D. students Marcos Cisneros and Kathleen Powers have been awarded Berkeley’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor awards for their outstanding work in the teaching of undergraduates in 2019-2020. Our faculty and undergraduates alike are proud to recognize Marcos’ and Kathleen’s immense dedication to their students. (Pandemic studying and teaching drawing by Marcos Cisneros.)
