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>>RSA Denver, 24 May 2024: Rhetoric of Small Things, "The Delete Key" - access copy PDF

>> Rule's co-edited collection (with LaVecchia, Carr, Micciche, and Stone), Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making has been published by Utah State UP (2024)

​>> Rule's chapter, "A Future without Thesis Statements" in Composition and Rhetoric in Contentious Times (Rachel McCabe and Jennifer Juszkiewicz, eds.) was published in 2023. 

>> Rule's chapter, "Process Not Progress (or, Not-Progress is Process): A Narrative Meditation" in Beyond Productivity: Embodied, Situated, and (Un)Balanced Faculty Writing Processes (Kim Hensley Owens and Derek Van Ittersum, eds.) was published in 2023. 

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Dr. Hannah J. Rule is Associate Professor of English in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in first-year writing, writing and embodiment, survey of composition studies, and the teaching of writing.

Rule's research focuses on composition studies and pedagogies. Focused on topics including writing process theory and pedagogies, freewriting, multimodality, rhetorical grammar, expressivism, writing technologies/tools, and materiality, Rule's scholarship appears in venues including CCC, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, several edited collections, and two books. The first, Situating Writing Processes (2019), asks how conceptualizing composing processes as emplaced physical activity in time reshapes contemporary writing instruction to  nurture context-sensitivity, situational differences, on-the-spot learning, and writing as relational and improvisational. A second, an edited collection called The Material Culture of Writing (2022), co-edited with Cydney Alexis, focuses on the intersection of writing studies and material culture studies. A third book, an edited collection about revision entitled Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making (2024) has just been published by Utah State UP.

​With Cydney Alexis, Rule is currently developing a second edited collection engaging MSC and writing studies, tentatively titled Writing Artifacts.