Date and Time: We 2pm–4:50pm
Room: 512 Cathedral of Learning
Instructor: Alexandra Hidalgo
Class Number: 31883

This course introduces graduate students to the joys, thrilling possibilities, and frustrations of producing rhetoric and composition scholarship in digital formats. We will read/watch/listen to/engage with scholarship that theorizes the creative and intellectual processes behind the blending of digitality and research. We will also engage with peer-reviewed article-and-book-length projects that push at the boundaries of what rhetoric and composition is and can become as it embraces digitality. As the semester progresses, students will work on their own digital projects in a studio-style creative environment where we pool our knowledge and ideas to help projects emerge in ways that suit the author's vision while meeting (and/or knowingly subverting) its target audience's expectations. You do not need to have any experience with or knowledge of digital production to enroll in this class. We will develop those skills together as we enact and experience the theoretical issues we're learning about through course texts. Final projects will be aimed at publication in a digital journal in our field selected by each author-Kairos, Enculturation, constellations, Computers and Composition Online, Present Tense, Peitho, and more. As students craft their projects, we will analyze (and follow) the instructions their selected journal provides for submissions in their chosen medium. At once experiential and theoretical, this course aims to help build a community of digital producers who collaborate in future projects for years to come.