Kevin C. Moore
Lecturer
Writing and Rhetoric Studies
Bio
Kevin C. Moore is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), and the Coordinator of PWR's Notation in Science Communication. He holds a PhD in English from UCLA (2013). Prior to arriving at Stanford, he taught in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2013-2019). His research interests include science and rhetoric, propaganda studies, Ralph Ellison, and writer's block. Dr. Moore's work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Arts, Writing on the Edge, African American Review, Composition Studies, MAKE, Souciant, and the Santa Barbara Independent, as well as collections such as Ralph Ellison in Context (Cambridge University Press 2021) and Creative Ways of Knowing in Engineering (Springer 2017). He also writes fiction and creative nonfiction.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric Studies
Administrative Appointments
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Notation in Science Communication Coordinator, Program in Writing and Rhetoric (2024 - Present)
Professional Education
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Ph.D., UCLA, English (2013)
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M.A., University of Arizona, English (2007)
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B.A., University of Washington, English and Chemistry (minor). (2003)
2024-25 Courses
- Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford
SOAR 10WR (Aut) - NSC Portfolio Preparation I
PWR 99ANSC (Aut) - NSC Portfolio Preparation II
PWR 99BNSC (Win) - Writing & Rhetoric 1: Trust, Rhetoric, and Writing
PWR 1KR (Win) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: Propaganda and Rhetoric
PWR 2KR (Aut) -
Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Intermediate Writing: Introduction to Science Communication
PWR 91NSC (Aut) - Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford
SOAR 10WR (Aut) - Scientific Opinion Writing
PWR 91KR (Win) - Writing & Rhetoric 1: Trust, Rhetoric, and Writing
PWR 1KR (Win, Spr) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: Propaganda and Rhetoric
PWR 2KR (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Writing & Rhetoric 1: Trust, Rhetoric, and Writing
PWR 1KR (Win) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric Unhinged: Writing and Speaking amid Crisis and Emergence
PWR 2KRA (Aut, Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Writing & Rhetoric 1: Trust, Rhetoric, and Writing
PWR 1KR (Win) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: Propaganda and Rhetoric
PWR 2KR (Aut, Spr) - Writing Workshop
PWR 6 (Win)
- Intermediate Writing: Introduction to Science Communication
All Publications
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Review of Global Ralph Ellison: Transnational Aesthetics and Politics, ed by Tessa Roynon and Marc C. Conner
African American Review
2023; 56 (4): 430-434
View details for DOI 10.1353/afa.2023.a931882
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Visual Art and Propaganda Ecologies in the Basque Country: A Sample of Guernica Motifs from the Benedictine Archives (1978-1989)
Arts
2022; 11 (3)
View details for DOI 10.3390/arts11030062
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Wrestling with the Far Right: Ellison's Representations of Fascism
Ralph Ellison In Context
edited by Devlin, P.
Cambridge UP. 2021: 177-186
View details for DOI 10.1017/9781108773546
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Readapting Pandemic Premediation and Propaganda: Soderbergh's "Contagion" amid COVID-19
Arts
2020; 9 (4)
View details for DOI 10.3390/arts9040112
- “Invisible in the White House: Rethinking Ellison through Barack Obama’s Global Reading List.” Ralph Ellison Special Issue, Literature of the Americas. 2018; 1.5 (Fall 2018): 151-163.
- "Three Days Before the Shooting." Writing on the Edge. 2017; 27.2 ((Spring 2017)): 29-35.
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Ethical Dilemmas in the Engineering Writing Classroom.
Creative Ways of Knowing in Engineering.
edited by Bairaktarova, D., Eodice, M.
Springer. . 2016: 197–218.
View details for DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49352-7_8
- Hawthorne's Doctor Experiments: Medicine, Risk Culture, and the Development of Psychological Realism. A Passion for Getting it Right: Essays and Appreciations in Honor of Michael J. Colacurcio's 50 Years of Teaching. edited by Bensick, C. Peter Lang. 2015: 11–38
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Parting at the Windmills: Malamud's The Fixer as Historical Metafiction
ARIZONA QUARTERLY
2013; 69 (1): 91–118
View details for DOI 10.1353/arq.2013.0003
View details for Web of Science ID 000421794300005
- Review of Culture and Course of Human Evolution, by Gary Tomlinson. MAKE Literary Magazine. https://www.makemag.com/review-culture-and-the-course-of-human-evolution-by-gary-tomlinson/. 2019
- Review of Whole Earth Field Guide, ed. Caroline Maniaque-Benton. MAKE Literary Magazine. 2 Jan. 2018
- Review of The Hatred of Poetry, by Ben Lerner. MAKE Literary Magazine. 15 Sept.. 2016