Department of Writing and Rhetoric | Stony Brook University

NEW DEGREE PROGRAM! Stony Brook launches B.A. in Rhetoric and Writing to start in Fall 2026. Now in the Undergraduate Catalog
GET READY for the National Day of Writing with the Department of Writing and Rhetoric on October 19, 2026! Join us all day in the Writing Center (Humanities 1024) for a series of fun events: games, community writing events, and pizza. Meet DWR faculty and students.
Professor Laura Marciano has been named Artist-in-Residence at The Word Shelter in Providence, Rhode Island. Laura is the author of the poetry collection Mall Brat (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), a confessional and experimental work that addresses class, gender, and contradiction for a speaker who came of age during the economic recession of 2008 and Opening Ceremony (Metatron Press, 2024), a poetic memoir that follows the speaker of her first collection into the landscape of late-millennial identity shifts.
HISB Event with Rita Nezami: Panel Discussion–"Beyond Boundaries: Translation as Research and Practice," Tuesday, October 6, 12:30 – 1:50 pm, Humanities 1008.

Write, Research and Succeed with a B.A. in Writing and Rhetoric