This Rhetorical Life

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Hosts B. López and Ben Kuebrich bring you interviews and discussion on radical pedagogy, rhetorical analysis, and counterstories of comp/rhet.

This Rhetorical Life


    • Aug 12, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 6 EPISODES


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    S2 Episode Two: Interview with Eric Darnell Pritchard

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2019


    In this episode, B. López interviews the award-winning scholar Eric Darnell Pritchard about his book Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and The Politics of Literacy. They also talk about Dr. Pritchard’s past and future scholarship, and about how to survive and thrive in academic spaces that are too often unkind, especially for queer students of color. … Continue reading "S2 Episode Two: Interview with Eric Darnell Pritchard"

    S2 Episode One: We’re Back!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019


    After two and a half years away, This Rhetorical Life is back with a second season and a new chapter for the podcast. B. López joins Ben Kuebrich in exploring politics and pedagogy, and the rhetoric of our daily lives. Listen to our first episode below and stay tuned the 2nd Monday of each month … Continue reading "S2 Episode One: We’re Back!"

    Episode 33: Cruz Medina Interviews Ana Castillo

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2016


    This summer, Cruz Medina reached out to This Rhetorical Life to share an interview he had done with Ana Castillo. As Medina states in this episode: As a writer, Ana Castillo’s work is the art that identifies subject matter before those of us who are academics and scholars are able to apply lenses or qualify and … Continue reading "Episode 33: Cruz Medina Interviews Ana Castillo"

    Episode 32: Queer Public Cultures & the Rhetoricity of Sex Museums

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2016


    Homonormativity has had two kind of strains of theoretical emphasis, one of which has been the focus on neoliberal prerogatives and priorities into institutions and everyday life, and gay and lesbian formations in particular, and I say gay and lesbian for a reason. And the development of a prescriptive set of social codes that define … Continue reading "Episode 32: Queer Public Cultures & the Rhetoricity of Sex Museums"

    Episode 31: Interview with Ira Shor – Part Two

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2016


    In any event, first [thing] we have to make contact with is the situation that we are entering and what kind of context we are teaching in, and for. And we have to then educate ourselves into the context. In addition, the other thing is, the political conditions not only change from place to place; … Continue reading "Episode 31: Interview with Ira Shor – Part Two"

    Episode 29: Reflections on Rhetoric and Citizenship

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2015


    I just don’t understand why we have to talk about every mode of belonging as some kind of citizenship. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m interested in people’s practices of resistance. I’m interested in people’s practices of belonging. […] I’m interested in people’s practices of world-making.  — Karma Chavez I’m increasingly persuaded … Continue reading "Episode 29: Reflections on Rhetoric and Citizenship"

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