Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
As Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Candice Rai coordinates undergraduate policy, practice, advising, and curriculum across the College of Arts & Sciences and provides leadership on supporting undergraduate students’ educational journey from enrollment through graduation and beyond. Rai collaborates with students, faculty, departments, and other campus, public, and community stakeholders to sustain and create college-wide curricular initiatives that support inclusive and innovative undergraduate education.
Joining the UW English faculty in 2008, Rai’s teaching and research focus on place-based, community-engaged, and public approaches to rhetoric and writing; urban and education justice; teacher development and inclusive writing pedagogies; and critical listening practices and ethics. Her publications include Democracy’s Lot: Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention; Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion; Writing Across Difference: Theory and Intervention; and Rhetorical Climatology, among others.
Rai directed UW’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric from 2014-2021 and led the UW in the High School writing program from 2020-2026. At UW and beyond, she has participated in and co-led university-community and school partnerships, civic leadership and community-engaged writing programs, college-level and K-12 curriculum and teacher development initiatives, institutional-level equity work, and public scholarship projects.