WRD encourages WRD majors and minors to conduct research at UK.
To help facilitate undergraduate research, WRD will offer up to $1,000 as support.
We encourage work in areas related to writing, rhetorical studies, or digital research. Such work might include:
Intermezzo - http://intermezzo.enculturation.net/ - dedicated to publishing work too long for an article and too short for a monograph has published its inaugrual book. Intermezzo is leading the way with digital longform publications, the fugure of academic scholarship.
Intermezzo is edited by Jeff Rice, Chair of WRD.
After being awarded a grant from the American Association of University Women, philosophy professor Natalie Nenadic is planning research on understanding today’s proliferation of pornography and sexual violence and the role of technology in this development.
“On the Humanism of Networked Cities” Malcolm McCullough, Associate Professor of Architecture University of Michigan
Keynote talk, University of Kentucky February 15, 2013 6:30-8:00pm
“New England Red” Kathleen Stewart, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas
Keynote Talk, University of Kentucky February 16, 2013 11:30pm-1:00pm
Bill Endres talks about potentials for 3D in Manuscript Study. He has scanned the St. Chads Gospel manuscripts from the Lichfield Cathedral.
