Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks

Abstract

agining Advocacy provides a lovely model for following that path. Pedagogically, this book would make an excellent addition to courses on rhetorical and qualitative researchmethods, and its value to classes exploring issues of sex, gender, race, and class cannot be overstated. During the process of writing this review, I learned that an undergraduate student at my university had been shot and killed on campus by a man with whom she had recently ended a short-term relationship. Lauren McCluskey was a competitive track athlete, majoring in communication and looking forward to graduation the following semester. She was also a woman who had reported her attacker to university police multiple times for harassment and received limited support and arguably no advocacy from the legal professionals involved in that process. Lauren’s story, like Jennifer Martel’s, makes Britt’s call for re-envisioning legal advocacy as both pedagogy and practice feel incredibly urgent. There is so much to recommend about Britt’s excellent new book, but the aspect of this book that must not be lost is its emergence out of the author’s dedication to exploring the lived and material possibilities of rhetorical education in the twenty-first century. May we answer her call in law schools and rhetoric programs both.