Festival Keynote Address

Beginning in Easter 2025, the Festival of Speaking & Listening featured a Keynote Address by a teacher-scholar who committed to undergraduate research in rhetoric. Keynote Addresses are open to the university community and the general public.

• 2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Wanda Little Fenimore, Associate Professor of Speech Communication, University of South Carolina-Sumter, "Respectability and Resistance: Mrs. Ruby Cornwell's Activism in Jim Crow South Carolina."