I’m Eric Detweiler, director of the Public Writing and Rhetoric program and an associate professor in the English Department at Middle Tennessee State University. I research and teach courses on writing for public audiences, rhetorical theory, digital media (especially podcasting and video games), and rhetoric and writing pedagogy. My book Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education, published by Penn State University Press in 2022, examines the ways teachers and students have interacted and been characterized throughout the history of rhetoric and writing education. I argue that the current threats facing public higher education call us to rethink teachers’ and students’ respective roles and responsibilities. My work has appeared in journals like Rhetoric Review, Pedagogy, Philosophy & Rhetoric, enculturation, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and the ADE Bulletin. Most of my publications are available via links on this site’s CV page. I’m also the managing editor for enculturation‘s sonic projects section and run a rhetoric podcast called Rhetoricity.

And I make a lot of questionable puns.

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