Nate Kreuter

Nate Kreuter specializes in rhetoric and writing studies and serves as director of the First-year Writing (FYW) program. His research focuses primarily on intersections of rhetorical theory and public life. He also publishes research on writing pedagogy and the rhetorical canon of style. 

Kreuter is a co-editor of the collection Rhetoric and Guns (Utah State UP, 2022), which explores "rhetoric’s relationship to guns by analyzing rhetoric about guns and the ways they function both in and as rhetoric related to specific instances—in media coverage, political speech, marketing, and advertising."

With Mark Longaker (University of Texas, Austin), Kreuter is co-author of The Battles of Texas: Adjuncts, Composition, and Culture Wars at UT Austin (Penn State UP, 2025). The Battles of Texas combines archival research and oral history to tell the story of UT Austin's writing program during a tumultuous period of curriculum revisions, labor disputes, and politicization, with clear implications for the teaching of writing today. 

He is also co-editor of the collection Navigating Space On and Beyond Campus (Utah State UP, forthcoming), which investigates the relationship between universities and their physical locations, the buildings, geographies, and communities where universites carry out their educational endeavors. 

Kreuter regularly teaches a large-lecture version of ENGL 1102: Composition II, ENGL 4826: Style, and graduate courses in rhetorical theory.