KENDALL JOY GERDES - Teaching - Faculty Profile - The University of Utah

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KENDALL JOY GERDES portrait

Assistant Professor, Writing and Rhetoric Studies

kendall.gerdes@utah.edu

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Current Courses

Spring 2025

WRTG 2050-001
Writing as Superpower
Location: BU C 203 (BU C 203)

Fall 2024

WRTG 3875-001
Histories & Theories
Location: GC 3660 (GC 3660)
WRTG 7740-001
Rhetoric I
Location: LNCO 3805 (LNCO 3805)

Summer 2024

WRTG 2010-093
Intermediate Writing
Location: ONLN (Online)

Professional Organizations

Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. 10/01/2017 - present. Position : Member.
National Council of Teachers of English. 03/2009 - present. Position : Member.

Courses I Teach

WRTG 2010 - Intermediate Writing
This course examines how writing can be used to negotiate, broker, and intervene in issues of public significance, as well as writing in undergraduate academic contexts.
WRTG 3875 - Histories & Theories of Rhetoric
This course examines the speech and writing of ancient sophists, as well as their influence on contemporary rhetorical theory. Participants will consider the relationships between rhetoric, truth, goodness, democracy, and demagoguery.