Department of English Language and Literature
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Hannah Rule
Title: | Associate Professor McCausland Faculty Fellow |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | ruleh@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-576-5975 |
Office: | HUO 203 |
Resources: |
Curriculum Vitae [PDF] |

Education
Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Cincinnati
Areas of Specialization
• Rhetoric and Composition
• Writing Pedagogies
• Composition Theory
Recently Taught Courses
ENGL 460 Advanced Writing
ENGL 468 Digital Writing
ENGL 890 Studies in Rhetoric and Composition
ENGL 790 Survey of Composition Studies
ENGL 461 The Teaching of Writing
ENGL 102H Rhetoric and Composition
Recent Publications
RECENT ARTICLES
• Janine Morris, Hannah J. Rule, and Christina LaVecchia. “Writing Groups as Feminist Practice." Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and
Composition, vol. 22, no. 3, Spring 2020
• Rule, Hannah J. “Beyond Page Design: Writing as Embodied Multimodal Meaning.” Writing Changes: Alphabetic Text and Multimodal Composition edited by Pegeen Reichert Powell. MLA Press, 2020. Forthcoming.
• Rule, Hannah J. “Sensing the Sentence: An Embodied Simulation Approach to Rhetorical
Grammar.” Best of the Journals in Rhetoric & Composition 2018 edited by Jordan Canzonetta, André Habet, Laura Gonzales, David Blakesley, Jessica
Pauszek, and Steve Parks. Parlor Press, 2019.
• Rule, Hannah J. "Writing's Rooms." College Composition and Communication, vol. 69, no. 3, February 2018, pp. 402-432.
• Rule, Hannah J. "Sensing the Sentence: An Embodied Simulation Approach to Rhetorical
Grammar" Composition Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, 2017, pp. 19-38.
• Rule, Hannah J. "Good Writers Must Know Grammatical Terminology." Bad Ideas about Writing edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe. West Virginia Libraries Digital Publishing Institute,
2017, pp. 150-154.
BOOKS
• Situating Writing Processes. WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado, 2019.
Situating Writing Processes (2019) asks how a renewed sense of writing processes might differently inflect contemporary writing pedagogies. Expanding contemporary process teaching away from strategy and toward responsivity, difference, and improvisation, this book aims to help writing teachers capaciously reimagine a critical pedagogical concept and position student-writers to locate composing within dynamic and unforeseen contexts.
Recent Presentations
• “Situating Process: Pushing Process as a Commonplace with Hospitality,” Carolina
Rhetoric Conference, Invited Presenter—Keynote Panel, Feb 28, 2020.
• “Situating Writing Processes: From Sameness and Strategy to Difference and Improvisation.”
South Carolina Council of Teachers of English Conference (SCCTE), February 2020.
• "Situating Writing Process,"12th Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric
and Composition, October 2018.
• "Annotation as Unifying Rhetorical Method in the Writing Classroom," UNCC University
Writing Program Conference, October 2018.
• "Undoing Theory/Practice (and Two other Provocations)," Panel: Provocations 15
Years after Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, with Laura Micciche, Melissa
Pearson, and Raul Sanchez, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC),
Kansas City 2018.
• "Annotation Practices and Student Success in Reading and Writing," Invited Speaker,
SC Technical College System Faculty Institute, October 2017.