Doctoral student William Morgan co-authored Secrets and Machines: A Conversation with GPT-3 with with Ethan Plaue and GPT-3. The piece is featured in e-flux Journal #123
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September 25, 2023
August 29, 2023
Rhetoric Graduate Student Aliosha Pittaka Bielenberg was recently featured in an article on the Graduate Division website about his summer fieldwork in Cyprus: Meet Aliosha: Rhetoric Ph.D connects with Cyprus’ cultural heritage through his research.
July 5, 2023
Kyra Sutton received a 2023 Teaching Effectiveness Award for “That Which Moves: Affect and Analysis”. The TEA award is sponsored by the Graduate Council’s Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs and the GSI Teaching and Resource Center.
May 24, 2023
The Department of Rhetoric was honored to have Julia Jarcho (Rhetoric PhD 2013) return to UC Berkeley to deliver the keynote address for our 2023 Rhetoric and Film & Media Commencement (watch the 2023 Commencement livestream recording).
May 10, 2023
Congratulations to our newest cohort of Rhetoric Ph.D. students starting this fall! We are delighted to welcome you to our active and vibrant intellectual community at Cal!
Chiara Bercugot her BA in Sociology from Wesleyan University. She will be pursuing a project about the carceral uptake of machine learning tech and the colonial imperatives that structure epistemological networks, with a special interest in psychoanalytic and cybernetic conceptions of the subject.
May 1, 2023
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Awards
UC Berkeley is committed to recognizing and rewarding graduate student’s contributions to diversifying the academy during their graduate careers and beyond.
April 24, 2023
Summer Session A (May 22-June 30)
Rhetoric R1A | Class #14989
Tue Wed Thurs 10am-12:30pm
Instructor: Osarugue Otebele
April 19, 2023
In(ter)vention and the Rhetorical Tradition
Rhetoric 103A explores what is called rhetorical tradition from its Western historical origins in Greece and Rome. The rhetorical tradition refers to the multiple and divergent ways that people throughout time have thought about the effects of language, both in theory and practice. Rhetorical study and practice today continues the tradition’s interest in varied, artful acts of invention and intervention that shape our worlds—for better and worse.
April 13, 2023
Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards, established in 2007, recognize UC Berkeley faculty for their vital role in mentoring graduate students and training future faculty. The awards are funded by the Graduate Division and seek to foster the qualities of excellence in mentorship that are so important to the Berkeley community. The winners are honored annually at an awards ceremony jointly sponsored by the Graduate Assembly and the Graduate Division.
March 30, 2023
March 7, 2023
The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Georgia author Éric Morales-Franceschini (Ph.D. Rhetoric and Critical Theory) won the 2022 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest, which includes a $2,000 award and publication of his debut full-length poetry collection, “Syndrome.”
March 6, 2023
The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley presents:
Force-Feeding and the Suspended Animation of Torture
Wednesday, March 8 | 12:10-2 p.m. | 602 Social Sciences Building
Speaker: Michelle C. Velasquez-Potts, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
February 16, 2023
Rhetoric graduate student, Kuan Hwa, co-edited the new publication, Embodying Peripheries.
Rhetoric graduate student, Kuan Hwa, co-edited the new publication, Embodying Peripheries.
January 31, 2023
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January 24, 2023
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December 19, 2022
The Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony
Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm
Zellerbach Auditorium
Tickets will go on sale on April 25 at 12pm.
Due to logistics, each ticket is now $5. (Graduates do not need to purchase tickets for themselves. Children and babies require tickets. Limit of 10 tickets per student.)
Save the Date!
The Rhetoric Commencement Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, May 16 at 2pm.
The ceremony will be in Zellerbach Auditorium. More details to come!