The writing on this site is part of the coursework for RHE 309K, The Rhetoric of Food, at the University of Texas at Austin, as partial fulfillment of the Writing Flag requirement. The contributors to the site are undergraduate students enrolled in the course during the 2016-17 academic year.

Read more about each semester’s student contributors: Fall 2016 & Spring 2017.

Thea Williamson is the instructor for the course, a doctoral candidate in the Language and Literacy Studies program, part of the College of Education. Her current dissertation project is an examination of the discipline of English in the context of a linguistically and culturally diverse high school, and she continues to work with UTeach Urban Teachers as well as the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. When she is not reading or writing about reading and writing, she is likely on the soccer field or in the kitchen monitoring a large stock pot. Raised in coastal Virginia, it took some time for her to recognize “barbecue” as anything but pulled pork, but she has since adjusted. She still misses seafood terribly.