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Ryan Mitchell is an Assistant Professor in the Program in Writing & Rhetoric and Associate Faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.A. (summa cum laude) in English Writing and Rhetoric from St. Edward’s University. His office is located in Humanities 2101, with weekly hours on Thursdays from 12:00–3:00 p.m.
His research focuses on the rhetorical construction of health risks, queer sexual health pedagogies during the North American AIDS crisis, and the intersection of sensation, feeling, and medical imaginaries. Key theoretical frameworks include the rhetoric of health and medicine, critical rhetorical history, and body studies. His work has been published in journals such as Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine.
He is completing a book manuscript titled AIDS & Embodied Risk: Inventing Safer Sex, examining how queer educators used embodied rhetoric to transform health education during the 1980s AIDS crisis. His scholarship has received recognition from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric. At Stony Brook, he teaches courses in critical health humanities, composition, and rhetorical theory.
