WRD faculty publish in a variety of areas, from digital writing to ethnography to spatial studies to ethnic studies. 

Recent books by WRD faculty include:

The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry - Jeff Rice (University of South Carolina Press)

Authentic Writing - Jeff Rice (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship - Sharon Yam (Ohio State University Press)

Woke Gaming - Kishonna Gray (University of Washington Press)

Stepping into Zion: Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews and the Remaking of Jewish Identity - Jan Fernheimer  (University of Alabama Press)

Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice - Jan Fernheimer (Brandeis University Press)

Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities - Jim Ridolfo (University of Chicago Press)

Digital Samaritans - Jim Ridolfo (University of Michigan Press)

Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis - Jenny Rice (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network - Jeff Rice (Southern Illinois University Press)

Florida - Jeff Rice (Parlor Press)

Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer - Jeff Rice  (Southern Illinois University Press)

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media - Jeff Rice (Southern Illinois University Press)