Kelly Ritter

Friends, my new book is now available on Amazon and also the USU Press website for pre-order! And if you order directly from the publisher, you can use the code provided in the image below to get 40% off the price. Please share widely and thanks much if you pick up a copy!!

Reminder of the CFP for a collection on Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership. I especially welcome chapters from university or college-level leaders. Abstract submission deadline is October 1, 2025 . Please share widely in your networks!

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

Reminder of the CFP for a collection on Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership. I especially welcome chapters from university or college-level leaders. Abstract submission deadline is October 1, 2025 . Please share widely in your networks!

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

My forthcoming book now has a cover! See more at www.upcolorado.com/utah-state-u...

Advice | Hiring Advice for Chairs: Do You Have a Roster or a Team? It can be difficult to see a team in the mix of characters who make up a department. But it’s essential that you do.

Pleased to have published a short piece on the connections between hiring and sports teams today in the Chronicle of Higher Education. I hope it is useful to my fellow chairs out there!

www.chronicle.com/article/hiri...

Friends in Rhetoric, Communication, and Writing Studies! Please consider submitting a proposal for my edited collection on Rhetoric and/as Academic Leadership, and share widely. Full CFP is here (apologies for the poor formatting on the Penn CFP site):

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

College ‘general education’ requirements help prepare students for citizenship − but critics say it’s learning time taken away from useful studies The architects of general education envisioned it would benefit all students. Decades later, political affiliation plays a role in determining whether people agree.

I've just published a piece in The Conversation on the importance of General Education to a functioning democracy. I hope that academics and non-academics alike find it useful! It's related to my book on Gen Ed, coming out in Feb 2026. Please read and share!!

theconversation.com/college-gene...

Conference Theme and CFP SAMLA 97: Knowledge Submit a Proposal SAMLA invites scholarly contributions across disciplines related to its timely theme, “Knowledge,” through diverse academic formats: panels, roundtables, works…

R/C-W/S historian friends: If you are interested in joining me on a SAMLA panel focused on "The (Im)Possibilities of Knowing Rhetorical Histories in an Ahistorical World, " please let me know!
CFP is below; conference is Nov 6-8, 2025 in ATL:

southatlanticmla.org/conference-t...

Workshops - Rhetoric Society of America

Folks in rhetoric and writing: please consider joining my Rhetoric Society of America Summer (virtual) interactive workshop from June 11-12 on Historiography and Rhetoric: Working in Institutional Archives! You can read more at this link:
rhetoricsociety.org/annual-meeti...

Jesus Kate--I'm so sorry.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

Started checking this account again after a long absence. Hope to be on more frequently!

Please share our newly position job announcement widely--for an associate professor of film studies, starting Fall 2024--here in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech:

joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

Here is another place to view more details regarding the 3 of the 4 positions we are hiring in the School of LMC at Georgia Tech, in one easy place. Position #4 in film studies will be here once it's approved as well: joblist.mla.org/jobs/georgia/

To apply, go to hr.gatech.edu/careers, choose "external applicants," and search for "Literature, Media, and Communication" to pull up the job descriptions and application links.

We are hiring 4 new faculty in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at GT for Fall 2024: Two FT lecturers (film production and computational media) and two TT professors (asst prof of digital media, assoc prof of film studies). The first three are posted; the fourth will be soon

I put this up over on those other social media platforms, so I will put it here as well for anyone who is interested:

slate.com/human-intere...