ENC3021: Rhetoric

Gabriel Roque, Veronica Fletcher, and Brianna Cloutier created this project to explore the connections between three rhetorical theorists and their ideas. Their goal was to take Locke, Farabi, and Lao-Tzu, who all existed in different time periods, and place them on a literal map (while connecting their ideas together with a spider diagram). They felt that rhetorical theory, though often dense and unforgiving, can be refined and presented to a wider audience. 

In this timeline, Nat Jiménez Torres maps out the evolution of disability and identity rhetorics from the year 2000 to the present. Each of the points along the timeline is interactive and leads to a dynamic interplay of text and images that summarizes these benchmark moments in theory, advocacy, art, and politics.

Riley Atzert, Sanaa McPherson, and Susanna Mendenhal collaborated to create Rhetorics & Spider-Man, a website dedicated to unpacking the various rhetorics of the live-action Spider-Man movies, from soundtrack to cinematography to character design. The site uses multimodal articles that integrate both textual analysis and sample scenes and images from the movies to construct a cohesive mapping of the cinematic superhero’s rhetoric.