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Research interests
Ryan Mitchell is a rhetorical theorist and critic. His scholarship engages with the vernacular construction and transhistorical circulation of health risks, drawing on interdisciplinary theories from the rhetoric of health and medicine, critical rhetorical history, public sphere theory, queer theory and criticism, and body studies. His current work focuses on the medical imaginaries that surround popular appraisals of sexual health and safety, with particular attention paid to the rhetorical force of sensation and feeling.
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
2014 → 2020
Master, Carnegie Mellon University
2013 → 2014
Bachelor, St. Edward's University
2009 → 2013
External positions
Assistant Professor of English, Lafayette College
2020 → 2023
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Research output
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Archives, Criticism, and Care: Tending to Archival Work in the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
Homchick Crowe, J. & Mitchell, R., 2025, In: Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition. 27, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Reflection on Archival Liberation and Power
George, A., Graban, T. S., Arnold, L., Bridges, D., Chen, C., Cho, S., Gindlesparger, K., Gittens, R., Gunnells, A., Issak, T., Lauer, J., McIntosh, R., Mitchell, R., Pendleton, A., Stone Watt, S., Tague, N. T. & Turner, S., Jan 31 2025, In: Journal for the History of Rhetoric. 27, 3, p. 385-396Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reckoning with Asymptomatic Illness: Visceral Certainty and the Limits of Communicating Risk
Mitchell, R., 2025, In: Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 55, 3, p. 277-292 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Vernacular Policies of Feeling: Sensuous Presence and the Emergence of an AIDS-Era Sexual Health Ethic
Mitchell, R., 2024, In: POROI. 18, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Dialogue on Un/Precedented Pandemic Rhetorics
Mitchell, R., Crowe, J. H., Dicaglio, S., Detora, L., Fitzsimmons, B., Hooker, T. B., Keränen, L., Klein, M., Nicolas, M. & Sastry, S., Nov 3 2023, In: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine. 6, 3, p. 335-364 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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