Bookshelf

Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.

A Charge for Change by Elizabethada A. Wright ’82

October 28, 2024

Tags Alumni Book

As the publisher notes, this volume "brings together 18 essays from the Rhetoric Society of America's 20th Biennial Conference, held at the end of the pandemic period. The conference call asked for participants to 'engage with rhetoric's purposes, demands, and energies' as the world moved toward a 'post-pandemic' world. The first section of essays confronts issues that existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic but were exacerbated by it: race and colonialism. Each essay offers suggestions on confronting biases too common in the world. The essays in the second section confront how rhetoric has impacted various concerns of the early 21st century, including the pandemic, the political world, and housing insecurities. Essays in the third and final section explore eternal issues from a kairotic perspective as they celebrate and reconsider people and elements of the field of rhetoric. In sum, the collection shows how rhetoric can change the world-even as it offers instructions on how to do so."