Judy Holiday

Judy Holiday is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of La Verne and the current chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies. Her research interests focus primarily on postmodern ethics and can be divided into two categories: ethics in the teaching of writing and the politics of difference. She has published articles in Rhetoric Review and Composition Forum and contributed book chapters to Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Materialist Rhetorics; The WPA Outcomes Statement—A Decade Later; Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research; What We Wish We’d Known: Negotiating Graduate School; and Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies (the latter two of which she co-edited). Having been perplexed and troubled throughout life by a violence-filled world, Holiday currently works on a book that connects intrapersonal, interpersonal, and group violence and that contends violence is learned cultural construct in which we all take a part.