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After spending some time reading through all of the sessions running tomorrow, I think I have my schedule for tomorrow:
- 10:30: “From Textile Mills to the Entrepreneurial University: Confronting the Political Economics of Writing”
- 12:15: “We Have Been Here Forever: Towards a History of Composition(ist)s of Color Rewriting Rhetoric within and beyond NCTE/CCCC”
- 1:45: “‘Driving into the Wreck’: A Feminist Inquiry of the Dissertation in Composition”
- 3:00: (no choice on this one, this is my panel) “Labor Rhetorics and Academic Organizing: Possibilities and Predicaments”
- 5:00: CCCC Labor Caucus Interest Group
Hello all comp/rhet followers. We’re only two weeks into the semester and already it’s exciting.
As you may know, three of us–Linda Cullum, Amy Lynch-Biniek, and I were in San Francisco at MLA interviewing candidates for our tenure-track position in Comp/Rhet. This week we begin our interviews. On campus interviews are always hectic, but from my perspective they are one of the most interesting parts of my job. It’s an opportunity to talk to great people who are doing excellent work in both their classrooms and their research. At the very least, it’s an opportunity to build networks of connection with other Comp/Rhet folks across the country.
If interviewing candidates for one position was not intense enough, we decided to push to search for a second tenure-track position this year. The position: Digital Literacies/Visual Rhetorics. Our initial plan was to search DL/VR next year along with a position in Multicultural/Multi-ethnic Rhetoric. But when opportunity presented itself to push the search to this year, we went for it.
If we are able to hire both positions this year we will have a total of 6 Comp/Rhet faculty, which will put us in an excellent position to focus on program development over the next couple of years. The addition of a faculty member in Multicultural/Multi-ethnic rhetoric in 2010 will give our little-program-that-could further depth.
In any case, we are looking forward to an exciting few weeks!
It’s hard to believe that we are already in the fourth week of the semester. Wow. I must say that we’re off to quite a start.
Earlier today the Composition Conference Committee met to begin planning our annual conference. Next April will be the fifth year of the conference. Last year’s conference was a grand success thanks in large part to Amy Lynch-Biniek’s tireless efforts as Chair of the Composition Conference Committee, the work of committee members, Keith Gilyard’s excellent Keynote Address, and the fabulous work presented by all of our student participants. While it’s still only mid-September, we’re already planning the conference theme, keynote speaker, and getting materials ready to distribute to faculty and students.
Last week the Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies Reading Group met to decide what we would read this semester/year. We decided on the following texts:
Here’s a look at the other texts we will be checking out this year:
- Kathleen Blake Yancey, “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.”
- Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning ‘First-Year Composition’ as ‘Introduction to Writing Studies’.”
- Jonathan Alexander, “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body.”
- Nancy Welch, “Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Post-Publicity Era.”
- Min-Zhan Lu, “An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.”
- Donna LeCourt, “Performing Working-Class Identity in Composition: Toward a Pedagogy of Textual Practice.”
We’re starting out with Yancey’s article for our October 9th meeting and go from there! And you may have noticed that CRLS Reading Group has replaced the CRG group and blog. Since we are working on developing a concentration in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies, it seemed to make sense to link our curricular work with the reading group. As you may notice, many of the articles we chose for this year focus on different approaches to composition and rhetoric and curriculum development.
And of course, Composition Conversations are in their second week. As we get closer to the due dates for our first papers, we’ll be sharing ideas for responding to student texts, effective workshopping, designing assignments, generating class discussions, and a whole range of other things!
All in all, we’ve hit the ground running. If you want to know what’s going on and where, check out our new Composition Calendar!
Hey everyone…Dan Featherston posted additional photos from this year’s Composition Conference for First-Year Student writers on his blog. Check them out here.
Thanks once again to all who made this year’s Composition Conference for First-Year Student Writers such a success. We hope you enjoy the pictures and look forward to seeing everyone back next year!
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Click on the photo or link above to check out the full slideshow!
It’s been quite a day! The final panels are now in session. We have at least 154 people registered (I say at least because I think there is another list floating around in the conference rooms). Not only have the panels been well-attended, the registration room has been alive with discussion, laughter, and story-telling all day. We’ve even begun talking about next year’s conference. Not to mention the weather is absolutely beautiful–the first real spring day of the year–and students and faculty are still coming to see panels. A good day.
I’m sitting here at the registration desk for the Fourth Composition Conference for First-Year Student Writers and thought I would let the blogosphere know how it’s going. In short, so far–GREAT! Session I at 9am and Session II at 10:30 have been well attended…actually, Session II is going on as I write this and all of the room are standing/floor sitting room only!
Kudos to Amy Lynch-Biniek for deciding to move the conference to a Thursday instead of a Friday…and kudos to those meteorologists who forecasted and delivered a beautiful sunny day (in stark contrast to last year’s cold rainy Friday). Right now there we have 70 students and faculty officially registered, but there is a second sign in sheet with at least 25 more students. It’s not even lunch yet and it’s already a great conference.
If you are reading this sitting around on the KU campus and are wondering what to do with your afternoon, check out the conference program and c’mon over!!!
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