This article differentiates three primary ways scholars in Composition and Rhetoric talk about embodiment as it relates to knowledge production and writing in the academy: embodied language, embodied knowledge, and embodied rhetoric. While these categories overlap and inform each other, clarifying the definitions themselves is important as there seems to be little agreement within the field about how one might define embodiment as it relates to writing. Additionally, this article illustrates how a strategic use of embodied rhetoric can disrupt the (faulty) assumption of a universalist discourse and provide concrete strategies for honoring difference and operationalizing a politics of location. (Contains 11 notes.)