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On January 29th, our little composition and rhetoric group will be having a full-day retreat. It will be our first official retreat and it couldn’t come at a better time.
With several new courses on the books, a program in the final stages of approval, and a load of ideas about where we go from here, it’s going to be good to be able to spend some sustained time hammering out our plans. I also thinks it’s a good time to formalize some of the principles that shape both our programmatic identity and our pedagogical practices. From my perspective, this is our chance to discuss what we want to be as a distinct intellectual and teaching community as well as how we want to be as a community.
So, here’s to a spectacular spring 2010 semester!
Keith Gilyard to speak at Kutztown University
The English department’s Composition Conference for First-Year Student Writers and the 2008 Foust Lecture for the Humanities present Keith Gilyard, who will speak on the topic “Tragicomic Hope, African American Music, and Rhetorical Education” on Wednesday April 9, 2008 at 7 PM in Boehm Auditorium.
Keith Gilyard, distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, will speak at Kutztown University on Wednesday April 9 2008 at 7 PM in Boehm Auditorium.
A native of New York City who holds graduate degrees from Columbia University and New York University, Gilyard is Distinguished Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He has served on the executive committees of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Conference on English Education (CEE), and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). In 2000, he served as chair of CCCC. Gilyard has lectured widely on language, literature, and education. He also has read his poetry at numerous venues and was a featured writer on the award-winning Annenberg/CPB television series The Expanding Canon.
Author of numerous publications, Gilyard’s books include Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (1991), for which he received an American Book Award, Let’s Flip the Script, An African American Discourse on Language Literature, and Learning (1996), and Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens (2003).
Gilyard’s latest book, Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy, will be published April 2008.
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