re:verb
By Calvin Pollak and Alex Helberg
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re:verb is a podcast about politics, culture, and language in action, featuring interviews and segments from scholars, writers, critics, and activists in the humanities, social sciences, and outside the academy.
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E108: AI-Assisted War Crimes?
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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E107: No War With Iran 3: Rise of the Machines
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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E106: CMU Coup? (w/ Sheila Liming & Catherine Evans)
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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E105: Writing Assessment is not “Viewpoint Discrimination”
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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E104: “Shoveling cultural snow,” or: Season’s greetings from AI Slop Summer
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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E103: No (More) War with Iran!
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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E102: Escape from the University of the Cancelled
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May 30, 2025 |
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E101: Discourse & Manipulation pt. 4 - The Economic Assumptions of "Liberation Day"
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May 08, 2025 |
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E100: Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (w/ Dr. Corinne M. Sugino)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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E99: Black Iconoclasm in Post/Ferguson America (w/ Dr. Charles Athanasopoulos)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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E98: Discourse & Manipulation, Pt. 3 - Manipulative Silences in Post-Election Post-Mortems
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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E97: re:joinder - OI: Oprahficial Intelligence
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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E96: Urban Renewal and Black Rhetorical Citizenship (w/ Dr. Derek G. Handley)
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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E95: veep:verb
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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E94: re:blurb - Ethos
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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E93: Queer Techné and Queering A.I. (w/ Dr. Patricia Fancher)
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May 22, 2024 |
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E92: Academic Organizing and Palestinian Solidarity (w/ Olivia Wood)
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May 09, 2024 |
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E91: Thinking Rhetorically (w/ Dr. Robin Reames)
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May 02, 2024 |
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E90: reel:verb - Civil War (Garland, 2024)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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E89: Distance and Suffering in News Reporting (w/ John Oddo, Cameron Mozafari, & Alex Kirsch)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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E88: re:joinder - Lose Bigly with Scott Adams, pt. 3: Movies, Moist Robots, and Mass Delusions
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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E87: Self-Immolation as Rhetorical Protest (w/ Dr. James Chase Sanchez)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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E86: Discourse & Manipulation (Part 2)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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E85: Discourse and Manipulation
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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E84: Toward a Media Theory of the U.S.-Mexico Underground (w/ Dr. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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E83: Criminalizing Protest: The Stop Cop City RICO Charges
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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E82: The Rhetoric of AI Hype (w/ Dr. Emily M. Bender)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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E81: Academic Labor Solidarity (w/ Dr. James J. Brown, Jr.)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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E80: re:joinder - Scott Adams & Persuasion: The Squeakuel
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May 31, 2023 |
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E79: Legitimizing Situated Knowledge in East Palestine, Ohio (w/ Sophie Wodzak & Dr. Erin Brock Carlson)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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E78: Campus Misinformation and Academic Freedom (w/ Dr. Brad Vivian)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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E77: Theaters of War (w/ Dr. Roger Stahl)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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E76: re:joinder - Lose Bigly: Scott Adams Explains Business, Politics, and Persuasion
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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E75: A.I. Writing and Academic Integrity
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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E74: Jordan Peele and the Speculative Fiction of Blackness (w/ Dr. andré carrington)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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E73: re:joinder - The CIA's Podcast
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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E72: Tenant Organizing and the Cult of Property Values (w/ Luke Melonakos-Harrison)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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E71: re:pronouns
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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E70: We hold these Truths & Replies to be self-evident: What is Truth Social?
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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E69: "We're all trying to find the guy who can do something about this"
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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E68: How can podcasting help us re:engage with social justice (inside and outside the academy)? // 2022 Computers & Writing Conference Special Episode
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May 02, 2022 |
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E67: re:read - Bartleby, the Scrivener
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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E66: Food, Culture, and Intimacy (w/ Dr. Anita Mannur)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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E65: I The People: Conservative Populist Rhetorics (w/ Dr. Paul Elliott Johnson)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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E64: "Rationality" Bites - Steven Pinker's Disciplinary Drift (w/ Dr. Nathan Pensky)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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E63: Rhetoric and Violence at the Capitol (re:visited)
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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E62: re:joinder - The University of the Cancelled
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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E61: A Cinema of Hopelessness (w/ Dr. Kendall R. Phillips)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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E60: re:blurb - Publicity and Counterpublicity
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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E59: The Power and Perils of Monstrosity (w/ Dr. Bernadette Calafell)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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E58: 20 Years of "War on Terror" Rhetoric (w/ Dr. John Oddo)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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E57: re:joinder - The New Science of Arguing about Argument Theory
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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E56: Black Artistic and Academic Labor From the Nixon Era to Critical Race Theory (w/ Dr. Richard Purcell)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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E55: re:joinder - The Limits of Artificial Persuasion
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May 07, 2021 |
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E54: re:blurb - Conceptual Metaphor
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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E53: Third Anniversary Celebration (w/ John Oddo, James J. Brown Jr., Derek Handley, Asao B. Inoue, Kendall Phillips, Cameron Mozafari, and Ana Cooke)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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E52: Science is a Social Process (w/ Dr. Abby Cartus)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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E51: Rhetoric and Violence at the Capitol
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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E50: The Century of the Elf (2020 Holiday Special)
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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RV E49: re:joinder - Election 2020 "Hot Texts" (Part 2)
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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E48: re:joinder - Election 2020 "Hot Texts" (Part 1)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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E47: Alienizing Logics and Coalitional Politics (w/ Dr. Karma R. Chávez)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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E46: re:read - Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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E45: Deepfakes, cheap fakes, and the politics of data (w/ Dr. Britt Paris)
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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E44: The Political Aesthetics of Cold War Propaganda (w/ Dr. Bret Vukoder)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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E43: Comics literacy as musicianship: A conversation with Frank Santoro
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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E42: Keep TikToking in "the free world"
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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E41: ALL of our languages are elegant! (w/ Dr. Asao B. Inoue)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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E40: Presidential rhetoric, unmasked (w/ Dr. Cameron Mozafari)
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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E39: re:read - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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E38: State power and abolition
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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E37: Risk Assessment and the Rhetoric of Epidemics (w/ Dr. Ryan Mitchell)
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May 22, 2020 |
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E36: re:joinder - Give me liberty AND give me death!
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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E35: Epicrisis for an epic crisis (w/ James J. Brown, Jr.)
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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E34: What does it mean to be mobile? Space, Place, and Mobility Part 2 (w/ Dr. Marian Aguiar)
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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E33: How can art help us reveal hidden histories and imagine transformative futures? Space, Place, and Mobility Part 1 (w/ Alisha B. Wormsley)
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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E32: Organizing Against Bloomberg (w/ Benjamin Dixon)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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E31: re:joinder - No War with Iran!
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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E30: re:blurb - Irony
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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E29: The Rhetoric of Horror Cinema w/ Kendall Phillips
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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E28: What's funny (and what's not) about place and culture? (Rhetorics of Comedy, Pt. 2)
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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E27: How do comedians think about writing, editing, and performance? (Rhetorics of Comedy, Pt. 1)
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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E26: re:joinder - Pro-Free College, Pro-Loan Forgiveness, Pro-Human
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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E25: Fascism & Demagoguery (w/ CV Vitolo-Haddad)
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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E24: re:blurb - Genre
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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E23: re:joinder - Conservative Rhetorics of Free Speech and the Academy
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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E22: Rhetorics of Labor Organizing & Collective Action (w/ Doug Kulchar)
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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E21: re:joinder - Why traditional masculinity is bad for academia
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May 16, 2019 |
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E20: Stay Skeptical and Don’t Get Murdered: A Genre Analysis of True Crime
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May 02, 2019 |
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E19: re:blurb - The Rhetorical Situation
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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E18: How do socialist feminists take rhetorical action?
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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E17: re:blurb - Dialogicality
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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E16: The Discourse of Propaganda: The myths, the legends, the tropes
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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E15: How can we empower the truth of ordinary people? (w/ Dana Cloud)
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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E14: re:blurb - Ideographs
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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E13: How do bodies do rhetorical work? (w/ Dr. Stephanie R. Larson)
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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E12: re:blurb - Stasis Theory
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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E11: re:cap (part 2)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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E10: re:cap (part 1)
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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E9: How does language influence our identity (and vice-versa)? (w/ Barbara Johnstone)
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Jun 17, 2018 |