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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.

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*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. 

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