Prospective STUDENTS
WRL@OSU
Thank you for considering our program at The Ohio State University. We are so proud of the work we do here, and we want you to have as much information as possible as you apply to, and perhaps enroll in our program.
WRL@OSU strives to give our students a diverse array of teaching, research, or administrative opportunities. These prepare our graduates for a variety of roles within academia or industry. Learn more about the possibilities open to you:
The WRL program is fully funded.
Our program is committed to ensuring that students have access to everything they need, including a minimum stipend of $21,280.
More than 80% of our graduates obtain a tenure-line (or equivalent) position within a year of earning their Ph.D.
Thank you for considering The Ohio State University’s Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy Program. We are so proud of the work we do here, and we want you to have as much information as possible as you apply to, and perhaps enroll in our program.
work from our grad STUDENTS
There’s perhaps no better way to get a feel for our program than to see what our students and faculty are researching. To start, you might check out the English Department directory.
Here are a few recent dissertation titles:
- Git Gud: Video Games, Mental Disability, and Resilience Rhetoric
- Redeveloping Participation: Rhetorics and Ontologies of Participatory Discourse in the Technical Communication of U.S. Public Housing Policy
- Queer Possibilities in Digital Media Composing
- Hospitable Literacies: The Writing and Rhetorical Practices of Black Family Reunions Online and Offline
Please check out an even fuller list of students’ dissertations.
If you check out our WRLWind, you can also find recent accomplishments of graduate students, faculty, and alumni.
ABOUT OUR FACULTY
Our faculty expertise is wide-ranging. Recent graduate seminars include the following:
- Community Literacies/Literacies in Communities
- Precarious Rhetorics: Contagions, Pandemics, and Catastrophe Capitalism
- Politics of the Interface through Critical Access Studies
You can also check out the full list of current graduate courses in the English department.
