Confronting Toxic Rhetoric

Jamie White-Farnham is Professor in the Writing Program and Director of Teaching, Learning and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Her research on feminist and material rhetorics, women’s health rhetorics, and antiracist rhetorics can be found in College English, Rhetoric Review, Computers & Compositions, among others. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century and co-author of Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health (2023). Cathryn Molloy is Professor of Writing Studies in the University of Delaware’s Department of English. She is co-editor of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal as well as co-editor of the books Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric, and Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century. She is the author of Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis (2020) and co-author of Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health (2023). Bryna Siegel Finer is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is associate editor of the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine journal as well as co-editor of the Writing Spaces book series. Her research focuses primarily on women’s health rhetorics and writing program administration and has been published in Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, Rhetoric Review, Teaching English in the Two Year College, Journal of Writing Assessment, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century, and co-author of Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health.