Righteousness here doesn't mean that violence is justified. But you can understand how someone who's been systematically denigrated over time can just lose it entirely. Students go into the community to find writing projects, which ensures that their writing will have meaning to them. We want students to see that what they do in the academy is relevant to what they do out there in the world full of work. USF's rhetoric and composition program is one of Florida's best-kept secrets.
Scholars everywhere place it among the top five in the nation.
It has one of the country's best records for placing graduates in professorships. And now, with the addition of Worsham, who joined the faculty last year, the program is attracting some of the best graduate students. Our program studies and writes about some of the most important intellectual trends that are going on now across disciplines and their applications for relevance to the questions of written discourse. As one of the foremost theorists in the field, Lynn brings cutting edge theory to the program. She adds significantly to our strengths.