2023 Rhetorician of the Year

Amy Vidali
Amy Vidali, light-skinned woman with brown hair, glasses, and a big smile.

Amy Vidali is Chair and Associate Teaching Professor at UC Santa Cruz. Her research, teaching, and activism focus on disability, rhetoric, and writing. She’s currently collaborating on a piece on radical trust and directed self-placement, and she’s wondering how to teach information literacy in required writing courses when the truth no longer seems to matter. Read more about Amy’s work at https://amyvidali.sites.ucsc.edu 

Post conference update: Listen to Amy’s talk, “In the Gray: Hating and Wanting Hyflex,” by watching this video in the 2023 conference playlist on YouTube.


Keynote Speaker: Antero Garcia
Antero Garcia, medium-skinned man with black hair and a smile.

Antero Garcia is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University where he studies how technology and gaming shape both youth and adult learning, literacy practices, and civic identities. Prior to completing his Ph.D., Antero was an English teacher at a public high school in South Central Los Angeles, where he also helped co-design the Critical Design and Gaming School. His most recent research studies explore learning and literacies using Dungeons & Dragons, including how participatory culture shifts classroom relationships and instruction. Read more about Anterro’s work and scholarship at https://ccsre.stanford.edu/people/antero-garcia 

Post-conference update: You can see most of Antero’s talk in this video from the 2023 conference playlist on YouTube.