Spring 2014 Colloquium Series
Joseph Bartolotta
Lecturer, Rhetoric & Writing Program
UNM Department of English Language & Literature
Thursday, March 27, 2014
12:30 p.m.
English Department Lounge
2nd Floor, Humanities
Dr. Bartolotta’s research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric and literacy. The questions that drive his research are: How and where do people learn rhetorical strategies? Further, how is rhetorical acuity related to literacy training? Joseph recently defended his dissertation titled “Laboring Literacy: Rhetoric, Language, and Sponsors of Literacy in Workers’ Education in the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union 1914-1939,” which is concerned with non-academic literacy in a professional context and argues that the acquisition of literacy itself constitutes a rhetorical act, as learners are trained by literacy standards that urge a certain rhetorical interaction with existing power structures.
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