Laura A Sparks
English Graduate Coordinator; English Honors Advisor; Teaching College-Level Writing Certificate Advisor; Rhetorical Theory, Human Rights Rhetorics, Digital Rhetorics, and Composition/Writing Studies
Schedule an appointment with me.
Dr. Sparks publishes research in rhetorical studies, human rights rhetorics, digital rhetorics, and composition/writing studies. Her book, Rhetoric in the Time of Torture (2023), studies the relationship between rhetoric and post-9/11 interrogational torture, with particular attention to digital human rights rhetoric and rhetorical constructions of urgency and timeliness. Recent publications and conference presentations include research on the first-year writing "Jumbo" course, Just War Theory, and post-human approaches to digital delivery. Her teaching interests include rhetorical theory and indigenous rhetorics, human rights rhetorics, first-year composition, and environmental rhetorics.