Writing & Rhetoric MKE is a digital archive of blog posts and resources published on the website of the same name between 2018-2022.The website was designed and edited by graduate students in UW-Milwaukee English Department’s Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement program. This collection includes content published on the website between February 2018 and November 2021 on topics including, but not limited to, community engagement, community literacies, composition pedagogy, social justice, digital humanities, linguistic diversity, public writing, qualitative research, and rhetoric.

The website Writing & Rhetoric MKE was started by Professor Rachel Bloom-Pojar in Spring 2018 with the goal of creating a space to highlight and amplify the work that communities around Milwaukee were already doing with writing, rhetoric, and literacy. What began as a public writing assignment for graduate students in Dr. Bloom-Pojar’s seminars evolved over time to become an independent website run by a team of graduate students with posts written by UWM students and faculty, as well as scholars and community members outside our university.

While the focus of the website gradually shifted, editorial teams changed, and a variety of topics were covered over the four-year lifespan of the blog, it remained committed to providing content that supported and engaged with diverse voices and perspectives of everyday writing and rhetoric around Milwaukee. In addition to blog posts, this digital archive also contains resources that were originally hosted on the website, such as: social justice and antiracism resources; the CCCC 2020 website content; and an expansive annotated bibliography on the Social Justice Turn in Technical Communication.

As the chapter of Writing & Rhetoric MKE as a website comes to an end in Spring 2022, much of its content lives on in this digital archive. It is our hope that this archive will serve as a resource on the many topics covered on the website for students at UWM; a record of the blog’s history and function over time; and a celebration of the important work contributed to the website by its writers, editors, and supporters.

Editorial Team Members:

Madison Williams (2019 –2022)
Emily Stoll (2021 –2022)
Danielle Koepke (2019 –2021)
Chloe Smith (2019 –2021)

Faculty Advisor:

Rachel Bloom-Pojar(2018 –2022)

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