ABSTRACT
The Seventh Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference invited presenters to respond to the insights of the Wingspread “Prospects for Rhetoric” conference on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. In the final entry of the conference proceedings, Carolyn Miller wrestles with an issue absent from Wingspread, the fact that Rhetoric remains a house divided as it moves into the twenty-first century. Having begun the last century as two armed camps, Rhetorical Studies and Rhetoric and Composition end the century perhaps less antagonistic towards one another, but perhaps even worse, as completely indifferent to one another. As Miller puts it:
Perhaps the most salient fact of rhetoric's academic existence in the United States is its division by institutional and educational history into two departmental homes, communication and English. There are lively and active communities of inquiry and criticism in both departmental locations, and too few scholars who are familiar with both. (207)
