Join us at Baruch College for the final Spring event of our Writing Program Speaker Series on Thursday, May 5, 12:15-1:30p for a talk by Rhet/Comp scholar Dr. LuMing Mao. Lunch and coffee served/Newman Vertical Campus 14-266.

Mao will discuss what it means to study non-Euro-American rhetorical traditions through the lens of comparison, addressing questions such as:

• What material conditions and discursive realities make such study imperative?
• What methodology promotes openness, interdependence, and reflexiveness?
• How can we re/present those rhetorical traditions and practices that have suffered the fate of non-representation, mis-representation, or wholesale erasure?
• How can we account for the interlocking dynamics informing the relationship between scholars’ own positionalities and the agencies of their objects of study?

LuMing Mao is Chair of the Department of English and Professor of English and Asian and Asian American Studies at Miami University of Ohio, and this spring is Peter and Margaret D’Angelo Chair in the Humanities at St. John’s University. Among his 42 published essays and book chapters, three have earned prestigious awards from College English and Rhetoric Review. His co-edited collection, Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric, received the Honorable Mention for the MLA 2009 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize. His current work includes a book, “The Art of Recontextualization: Studying Chinese Rhetorical Practices Comparatively,” and the co-edited collection The Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing.

Please RSVP to Carina.Pasquesi@baruch.cuny.edu by Tues, May 3.