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In this interview, Dr. Emily Sok, a Writing and Rhetoric PhD student who recently defended her dissertation Reading Identity in Composition Scholarship: A Content Analysis on Reading, discusses her dissertation and defense process.

Kerry Smith defends her dissertation, The Effect of Affect: Hostile Rhetoric in Abortion Discourses, in Spring 2026.

The Mary Roper Award honors a classified staff member who has shown outstanding service in support of the core goals of the college – improving the quality of the liberal arts experience for all students, increasing the capacity for noteworthy and innovative scholarship and creating and strengthening external relationships.

The year-long series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary AI literacy, explore how AI shapes and is shaped by culture, ethics, history, and society, and provide opportunities for research incubation and exchange.

Nadirah Muhammad (BA, Writing and Rhetoric '20) recently published an interview with Kari Miller, founder and CEO of International Neighbors, an organization that supports refugee and immigrant families building new lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.