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The course overviewed disciplinary conversations and concerns in and around Asian American rhetorical studies over time, with a focus on the affordances of Asian American rhetorical theory for the study of rhetoric and writing more broadly. Understanding that established disciplinary and formal/genre divisions within academia are often the result of Eurowestern canonical and institutional histories, the course included readings from varied fields. We discussed academic scholarship in ancient and contemporary rhetoric and writing studies, Asian American studies, Asian American literature, and Asian philosophy alongside literary and artistic works, including Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, the film Better Luck Tomorrow, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s. In addition, students dialogued with virtual guest speakers in the field, including Haivan Hoang, Terese Guinsatao Monberg, Mira Shimabukuro, and Morris Young.  \nInstitutional Context  \nVirginia Tech is a large, research-intensive, public, land-grant, state university and former all-white, all-male military institution in Blacksburg, Virginia. Blacksburg is located in Appalachia as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission (“About the Appalachian Region”). This is notable because Appalachia as a region is predominantly white. In such spaces, it can be easy for white university administrators and faculty in particular to underestimate the value of a course like this in their curriculum. Yet as is the case at many other universities, Asians were—and are—the largest group of racialized minorities on campus at 9% of the student enrollment when I taught this course in 2019 (“Enrollments”) . Despite this fact, there was virtually no attention to Asian American histories, theories, and ways of knowing at the time that I proposed this course in 2016. There were no faculty or courses in Asian American literature or rhetorics in the English department where this course was taught, though that would change several years later. These details matter because the availability of such courses in the humanities affect how members across the university community recognize the history, intellectual traditions, and,  \nComposition Studies 51.1 (2023): 111–123  \nultimately, the humanity of Asian/Asian Americans on and off campus. Atthe same time, there were several Asian student organizations under the Asian American Student Union (AASU). I had just started the Asian/Asian American Faculty and Staff Caucus (now the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American, or APIDA, Caucus), and undergraduate students Anu Sharma and Sora Ko had just started the Asian American Coalition. Since that time, the Asian Cultural Engagement Center was established (in 2017), and a director for the center was hired two years later. In short, the university landscape for Asian Americans was quite different between the time I proposed the course and the time I taught it, and these changes were in many ways driven by the efforts of Asian students and faculty advocating for representation on campus.  \nThe English department at Virginia Tech offers a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing and MAin English. Although I was hired to teach primarily within the PhD program in rhetoric and writing and in the undergraduate professional and technical writing program, I proposed the course for the MA program, mostly because there were limited opportunities to teach such a course within the PhD program. On the other hand, the MA program invited applications and proposals from all graduate faculty to teach variable topics courses—a more equity-oriented practice. I initially proposed a course called “Asian American Rhetoric”; however, MA committee members suggested adding “and Representation” to the title, so as t","cbCaintJNxYevPq0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaintJNxYevPq0","pdf",159000,13,"English","# Course Description\n## Institutional Context\n### Student Enrollment and Curriculum Design","[{\"question\":\"What was the main focus of the course described in the text?\",\"answer\":\"The course centered on Asian American rhetoric and representation, emphasizing the value of Asian American rhetorical theory for broader studies of rhetoric and writing.\"},{\"question\":\"Where and when was the course taught?\",\"answer\":\"It was taught at Virginia Tech as a graduate-level course in Spring 2019.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the course’s institutional context affect its development and enrollment?\",\"answer\":\"The text explains that limited existing Asian American courses in the English department, university demographics, and scheduling conflicts in the MA/PhD programs influenced both the course proposal approach and which students could enroll.\"}]","Re-Orienting Rhetorical Theory in an Asian American Rhetorics Seminar | PDF",1792088732,33]