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Center Graduate Students: Jonathan Stone
Jonathan Stone is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Writing Studies in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
315 English Building | MC-718
217-333-1335
jwstone2@illinois.edu
Biographical Statement
While the academic history leading up to my current place in the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign may seem a bit random (three bachelor's degrees over the course of several years), the study of communication—as speech, literature, pedagogy, and as found in various other written and visual texts—has been a common thread. All of my undergraduate work at both major Arizona Universities was focused on different ways that words do rhetorical work—and my current interests are similarly focused.
I am interested in the study of rhetoric, broadly conceived, but especially how writers, teachers, artists, filmmakers, and other text authors are finding new and diverse ways through print, image, electronic media, film, and literature to influence audiences with culturally and socially relevant rhetoric that impacts and critiques dominant discourse structures around them. This study embraces a diverse body of scholarship across multiple disciplines, which makes Writing Studies at UIUC a perfect place to explore.
Courses Taught
- Rhet 103
- Rhet 104
- AWP
Research Interests
Rhetoric, new media, genre theory, composition pedagogy, visual culture