The Dean's Lunch & Learn Series is an informal gathering to build and strengthen community across campus while also celebrating our impact through research, innovation, and engagement. All faculty and staff are welcome to join for part or all of the session, as able.

Our feature speaker for October 7th is Dr. Rebecca Ottman, Assistant Professor in Maritime Studies. Dr. Ottman is an early-career researcher in rhetoric and writing studies. Her research critically examines the ways in which traditional definitions of eloquence can actively dissuade experimental approaches to language and invention within the academy under the guise of aesthetics. Her current book project theorizes the concept eloquence as fundamentally ambiguous and entangled with writing process, algorithmic languaging, and rhetorical stewardship.  Her work in this area has been presented on the national level at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, and the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, as well as at the international level at the Persuasive Algorithms Conference hosted by the RHET AI Center for Science Communication Research at the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany.