Rate My Professor Candice Rai

Rai's publications include the monograph Democracy’s Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention (University of Alabama Press, 2016). She co-authored Rhetorical Climatology (Michigan State University Press, 2023) with Chris Ingraham, Jennifer LeMesurier, Bridie McGreavy, Nathan Stormer, and John Ackerman. As co-editor with Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, she published Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion (University of Alabama Press, 2018). With James Rushing Daniel and Katie Malcolm, she co-edited Writing Across Difference: Theory and Intervention (Utah State University Press, 2022), featuring her chapter “Anti-Racist Translingual Praxis in Writing Ecologies” co-authored with Sumyat Thu, Katie Malcolm, and Anis Bawarshi. Other works include “Making Worlds with Cyborg Fish” with Caroline Gottschalk Druschke (2018), “Publics, Power and the Rhetorics of Democracy” (2010), and contributions to Making Writing Matter (2008) and the Michigan Journal of Community Service (2006). Her research integrates rhetoric with ecology, ethnography, and community engagement, advancing place-based pedagogies and public scholarship.