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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2024
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
English
First Advisor
Adrienne Jankens
Abstract
This dissertation explores practices of empathy in rhetoric and composition studies, including the spaces of the classroom, scholarly publications, and the public. Considering empathy as relational in that it requires back and forth communication to seek understanding, this project describes concrete characteristics of empathy, explores how empathy is valued by the discipline of rhetoric and composition studies, and identifies how empathy is important to contemporary conversations about social issues in the public sphere.
Recommended Citation
Hart, Colleen J., "Evidence Of Empathy In Rhetoric And Composition Studies: Tracing Empathy In The Writing Classroom, Discipline, And Beyond" (2024). Wayne State University Dissertations. 4019.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/4019
