Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference
Friday 10/7 Schedule
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Friday 10/7
Session D-1
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Exploring Visual Rhetoric: What Do We Hear? Where Do We Move? |
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Karen Springsteen (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
Guerilla Rhetoric |
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Matt Hill |
Michigan Tech U |
Re-Moving Community in Daughters of the Dust |
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Kristin L. Arola |
Michigan Tech U |
Listening to the Visual: Online Self-Representations |
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Leslie S. Taylor |
U of Tenn-Chattanooga |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A Woman Who Refuses to Submit |
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Friday 10/7
Session D-2
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Alternative Responses to Rhetorical Paradigms: Cultivation, Articulation & Ambiguity |
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Suzanne B. Spring (chair) |
U of Michigan |
The Call for Rhetorical Cultivation: Women Rhetoricians' Epistolary Revision of Nineteenth-Century Learned Discourse |
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Rebekah Buchanan |
Temple University |
Zines as Feminist Discourse: Women Writing to Promote Dialogue |
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Jennifer Lutman |
U of Michigan |
Critical Thinking & the Rhetorics of Articulation |
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Melanie Kill U of Washington |
U of Washington |
Radical Rhetorics & the Politics of Ambiguity |
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Friday 10/7
Session D-3
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Transnational Accords & Discords: Global Policies from Feminist Perspectives |
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Elizabeth Lehr (chair) |
U of Mass-Dartmouth |
Human Rights or Women's Wrongs: How the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights' Leaves Women Behind. Again. [PDF download] |
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Nicole Walls |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Feminisms & the CEDAW Debate |
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Laurie Johnson |
U of Minnesota |
Women, Feminism, & Intellectual Property: An International Perspective |
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Rebecca Dingo |
Ohio State U |
Anxious Appropriations: The Colonial Rhetoric of Gendered World Bank Policy-Making |
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Friday 10/7
Session D-4
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Gender & Sexual Identity as Negotiated in New Media: Battlestar Galactica, Sex & the City, & The L Word as Virtually New Representations of Gender? |
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Neil P. Baird (chair) |
U of Nevada-Reno |
No Frakin' Way: Virtual Discussions of the New Battlestar Galactica |
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Jane Detweiler |
U of Nevada-Reno |
Good Bi, Bad Bi: Affectional Fluidity as Threat in The L Word |
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Tiffany Threatt |
U of Nevada-Reno |
The New Feminist & the City: Teaching Critical Media Analysis |
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Friday 10/7
Session D-5
08:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Femininity, Masculinity, & Monarchy: The Rhetorical Gender Strategies of Queen Elizabeth I |
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Kimberly Hula (chair) |
U of Missouri-Columbia |
The Painted Face of Virginity: An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Matrimony in the Court of Queen Elizabeth I |
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Sonia Bernstein |
U of Rhode Island |
Stabilizing a Persona: Elizabeth's Verbal Dexterity as a Hegemonic Tool |
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Friday 10/7
Session D-6
08:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Challenging Students' Preconceptions by Teaching Women's Rhetoric |
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Kathleen McEvoy (chair) |
Washington & Jefferson College |
Valuing the Voices of the Past: Teaching Gwendolyn Brooks' Emmett Till Poems |
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Amy Spangler Gerald |
U of North Carolina-Charlotte |
Facing Predjudice: Teaching Toni Morrison's Recitatif [PDF download] |
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Shannon Stewart |
Costal Carolina U |
Recognizing the Power of Colonization: Teaching Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John |
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Pamela Whitfield |
Rochester Community & Technical College |
Deconstructing Stereotypes: Teaching Women's Prison Narratives in Wally Lamb's Couldn't Keep It to Ourselves |
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Friday 10/7
Session D-7
08:00 am
MUB, Red Metal Rm |
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Rhetorics of Crime & Culpability: Women as Writers, Readers, & Bodies |
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Lee Nickoson-Massey (chair) |
Elon University |
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Elizabeth Hatmaker |
Illinois State U |
Pulp Feminism: True Crime & the Familiar/al Corpse |
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Kirsti Sandy |
Keene State College |
'A Pretty Private View of Notorious Events': Gendered Surveillance in Dorothy Kilgallen's Murder One |
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Shelley DeBlasis |
Illinois State U |
DeBlasis-Insatiable Desires & the Outlaw Body: Consuming Martha Beck |
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Friday 10/7
Session E-1
09:30 am
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Featured Speakers Panel |
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Diane Shoos (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
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Mary Lay Schuster |
U of Minn-St. Paul |
Women & Domestic Violence: The Victim Impact Statement as Argument & Performance in the Courtroom |
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Kim Sawchuk |
Concordia U-Montreal |
Making Waves: Intergenerationality, Feminist Theory, & the Wave as a Metaphor for Movement |
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Friday 10/7
Session E-2
09:30 am
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Women, Rhetorical Literacy, & Activism: Engaging in Democratic Participation |
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Whitney Douglas (chair) |
U of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Women, Rhetorical Literacy & Activism: Engaging in Democratic Participation |
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Eric Turley |
U of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Sponsoring Suffrage Discourse for Rural & Urban Women of Nebraska |
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Virginia Crisco |
California State U-Fresno |
Building a Civic Identity with Activist Literacy: Engaging Class through Intercultural Inquiry |
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Friday 10/7
Session E-3
09:30 am
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Women's Voices & Virtues: Regendering Ancient & Medieval Texts |
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Kristi Lewis (chair) |
Mount Vernon Nazarene U |
A New Voice from an Ancient Text |
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Rhoda Hadassah Kotzin |
Michigan State U |
Gender-Coded Ordinary Language, Conceptual Analysis, & Conceptual Innovation: Examples from Plato & Aristotle on Virtue (arete) [PDF download] |
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Tanya Cochran |
Union College |
They That Hath Ears, Let Them Hear: Listening to Women of the Old Testament |
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Lynee Lewis Gaillet |
Georgia State U |
They That Hath Ears, Let Them Hear: Listening to Women of the Old Testament |
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Sabrina LeBeouf |
U of Louisiana-Lafayette |
Character Study of Guinevere in Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte D'Arthur' |
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Friday 10/7
Session E-4
09:30 am
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Rhetorics of Mental Disorder & Disability: Feminist Resistance & Dissent |
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Marian E. Lupo (chair) |
Ohio State U |
Embodied Dissoi Logoi: Mental Health Difference as Dialectic |
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Friday 10/7
Session E-5
09:30 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Space, Place, & Identity: Losing the Farm & Steel Magnolias |
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Sara L. Puotinen (chair) |
Emory U |
Losing the Farm: Two Sisters Reflect on the Value of Space |
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Anne Puotinen |
Art Institute of Chicago |
Losing the Farm: Two Sisters Reflect on the Value of Space |
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Suellynn Duffey |
Georgia Southern U |
Steel Magnolias & Others Perceptions of 'Southern' in & among Women Academicians: Competition, Feminism, & Enculturation [PDF download] |
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Friday 10/7
Session E-6
09:30 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Rhetorical Strategies Arising from Issues of Embodiment: Crisis Assistance, Title IX, & Academic Authority |
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Michelle Sayset (chair) |
Columbia College-Chicago |
Writing Women Safe: An Exploration of Composition Students Using Their Creative Energies to Challenge a Culture that is Violent Toward Women |
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Kelly Belanger |
Virginia Tech U |
Rhetorical Strategies of Female Athletes: Examining Title IX Discourses |
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Bess Fox |
U of Kentucky |
Authority & the Body in Academic Discourse |
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Friday 10/7
Session E-7
09:30 am
MUB, Red Metal Rm |
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Community, Resistance, & Hope: Toward a Feminine Public Sphere |
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Christa Walck |
Michigan Tech U |
The Community of Walmart: Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood |
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Anne Mareck |
Michigan Tech U |
Sites of Resistance: The Techne of Solidarity |
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Cynthia Weber |
Michigan Tech U |
Diversity & Transnational Corporations: Searching for a Rhetoric of Hope |
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Friday 10/7
Session F-1
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Featured Speakers Panel |
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Patty Sotirin (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
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Karen A. Foss |
U of New Mexico-Albuqerque |
A Collaborative Feminist Journey: Finding Our Way |
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Sonja K. Foss |
U of Colorodo-Denver |
A Collaborative Feminist Journey: Finding Our Way |
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Cindy L. Griffin |
Colorado State U |
A Collaborative Feminist Journey: Finding Our Way |
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Friday 10/7
Session F-2
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Lessons Learned: Wrestling with Race, Gender, Identity, & the Work that We Do |
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Tammy Evans (chair) |
U of Miami (FL) |
It Was All Routine: Practicing Theory/Theorizing Practice |
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Allison Brimmer |
Nova Southeastern U |
Doing Damage Daily: Speaking the Languages of Whiteness |
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Deepa Sitaraman |
U of South Florida |
A Rhetoric of Inadequacy |
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Friday 10/7
Session F-3
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Feminist Rereadings of Classical Texts & Traditions |
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Min-Zhan Lu (chair) |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
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Royal Bonde-Griggs |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
'Feminist Only by Implication': Gorgias's Techne of Generative Reproduction & a Feminist Relativization of Logos through Nomos |
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Lisa Riecks |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Rereading Susan Jarratt's Notion of Literacy in Rereading the Sophists |
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Erica Frisicaro |
U of St. Thomas |
Rhetoric Reborn: Recovering Traces of the Foreign & Feminine in Rhetorical Origin Stories [PDF download] |
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Alice Gillam |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Rhetorics of Feminist Rereadings |
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Friday 10/7
Session F-4
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Disrupting White Washed Feminism: Cross-Cultural & Cross-Generational Crises in Feminist Classrooms |
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Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater (chair) |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
I Know Just How You Feel?: Why Empathy Is Not Sufficient for White Feminists Attempting to Cross the Color Line |
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Katie Guest |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Sister, You'll Go With Us: On Sisterhood & Betrayal in the Classroom |
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Michelle Johnson |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Keep Out, No Angry Black Women Allowed: What Happens When New Generation Black Feminists Trespass on White Feminist Territory ? |
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Friday 10/7
Session F-5
11:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Native American Rhetorics of Space, Ecofeminism, & Ontological Expression |
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Rosalyn Collings Eves (chair) |
Pennsylvania State U |
'Dreaming of This Fair Land': Rhetorics of Space in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona |
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Fadwa Mahmoud Hassan Gad |
United Arab Emirates University |
Ecofeminist rhetoric & Native American Hi(story): The Case of Louise Erdrich's Tracks (1988) |
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Darris C. Saylors |
U of Tenn-Chattanooga |
The Cherokee Way: A Mode of Rhetorical Expression for Women |
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Friday 10/7
Session F-6
11:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Cultural Rhetorics: Continuation & Resistance in Mixed Traditions |
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Ellen Cushman (chair) |
Michigan State U |
The Stars of the Allotment Era: Cherokee Women Revising Herstory |
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Terese Guinsatao Monberg |
U of Kansas |
Filipina Feminist Space: Rhetorical Imaginings of Dorothy Laigo Cordova |
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Malea Powell |
Michigan State U |
Negotiating Beadwork: American Indian Women's Material Rhetorics |
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Friday 10/7
Session F-7
11:00 am
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Writing Family Trees: Interactive Narratives of Mentoring Behind the Scenes of Composition |
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Roxanne Kirkwood |
Marshall U |
panel discussion |
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Morgan Gresham |
Clemson U |
panel discussion |
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Friday 10/7
Session
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Fisher Hall, Rm 135 |
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Keynote Speaker: Due to unforseen circumstances, Andrea Lunsford is unable to be with us. |
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cancelled |
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Friday 10/7
Session G-1
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Featured Speakers Panel |
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Victoria Bergvall (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
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Joyce Irene Middleton |
East Carolina University |
Reel Diversity |
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Patsy Schweickart |
Purdue U |
The Un-Rhetoric of Reading: A Feminist Critique of Habermas' Paradigm of Communicative Reason |
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Cheryl Glenn |
Pennsylvania State U |
Who Can Speak-and for Whom? |
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Friday 10/7
Session G-2
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Politics & Play: Re-positioning the Rhetorical Strategies of African American Women Writers of the Late 19th & 20th Centuries |
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Annette Vee (chair) |
U of Wisc-Madison |
Getting 'Picked Up' & Published: Insider Positionings in the Descriptions of 'Signifying' in Claudia Mitchell-Kernan & Zora Neale Hurston |
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Beth Schewe |
U of Wisc-Madison |
Politicized Marriage: Frances Harper's Rhetoric of Race & Gender |
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Samaa Abdurraqib |
U of Wisc-Madison |
'A Blk/Woman/Speaks:' Sonia Sanchez's Revolutionary Rhetoric |
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Kate Vieira |
U of Wisc-Madison |
African American Riddlic Rhetorics & Feminist Participative Politics: A Case Study of Harryette Mullen's Poetry |
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Friday 10/7
Session G-3
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Wunderful Rhetorica: Feminist Strategies in Multi-Mediated Realms |
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Diana George (chair) |
Virginia Tech |
(Respondent) |
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Cynthia Y. Selfe |
Ohio State U |
A Case Study of Women's Literacy in the 21st Century |
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Laura Bartlett |
Ohio State U |
Feminist Pedagogies for Recomposing the Multi-mediated Student Body |
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Susan H. Delagrange |
Ohio State U |
Designing Digital Wunderkammer as Feminist Practice |
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Friday 10/7
Session G-4
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Feminisms & Administration: Troubled Intersections |
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Becky Rickly (chair) |
Texas Tech U |
The Need for More Research on Feminisms & Administration |
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Chris Farris |
Indiana U |
One Troubled Intersection: The `Homeschooling' of WPA's |
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Kris Ratcliffe |
Marquette University |
In/Conclusive Evidence about Troubled Intersections of Feminisms & Administration |
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Friday 10/7
Session G-5
02:00 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Pedagogy: Collaboration, Assessment, Resistence, Identification |
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Martha D. Patton (chair) |
U of Missouri-Columbia |
Translating Feminist Ethics into Writing Program Administration: The Possibilities & Limitations of Collaboration |
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Lee Nickoson-Massey |
Elon University |
Claiming Voice (?): Interrupting Traditional Conceptions of Writing Assessment |
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Tobi Jacobi |
Colorado State U |
Literacy as Resistance: The Rhetorical Tactics of Women's Prison Writing & Reading Projects |
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Wendy Wolters |
Ohio State U |
Identificatory Pedagogy: Modeling Rhetorical Theory Through Our Teaching Practices |
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Friday 10/7
Session G-6
02:00 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Remembering Those Lost to Drink: Three Aspects of Temperance Rhetoric & the Turn of the 20th Century |
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Wendy Sharer (chair) |
East Carolina U |
'The Devil Baby': Urban Legend & Jane Addams's Rhetorics of Temperance |
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Carol Mattingly |
U of Louisville |
'Pieces from My Dead Boy's Eyes': Feminine Funding for Capital Construction Campaigns |
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Irene Ward |
Kansas State U |
Britain's Inter-War Temperance Campaign: Nancy Astor & Temperance Rhetoric |
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Friday 10/7
Session G-7
02:00 pm
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Struggling over Representations: Maria Full of Grace, Girlfight, Million Dollar Baby, & Girl Zone |
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Jeannie A. Patrick (chair) |
Michigan State U |
Maria's Journey: The Long Road to New Latina Representations |
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Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
GirlZone & Literate Activities |
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Dundee Lackey |
Michigan State U |
Boxing Us In: Representations of Women & Boxing in Film [PDF download] |
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Friday 10/7
Session H-1
03:30 pm
MUB, Ballroom A |
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(Inter)Disciplinary Perspectives on Diversity |
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Victoria Bergvall (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
Linguistic Diversity & Linguist Diversity |
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Ann Brady |
Michigan Tech U |
New Issues in Diversity for Scientific & Technical Communication |
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Elizabeth Flynn |
Michigan Tech U |
Emerging Diversity [PDF download] |
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Diane Shoos |
Michigan Tech U |
Engaging Diversity; Feminist Film Studies |
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Patty Sotirin |
Michigan Tech U |
Feminist Organizational Communication Studies: Affirming Diversity? |
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Friday 10/7
Session H-2
03:30 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Orienting Gender Online: Digital Mediations Of Gender & Community |
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Pamela Takayoshi (chair) |
Kent State U |
Where the Girls (& Literacy) Are in a Digital, Multicultural World |
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Patrick Thomas |
Kent State U |
A Discriminating Taste, or a Tendency toward Self-Censure? Professional Representation within New Media Context |
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Mary Beth Sullivan |
Kent State U |
Women's Online Communities & Gaming: Fighting the Monster Hunter or Each Other? |
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Elizabeth Feltner |
Kent State U |
Women's Weblogs: Emancipating & Empowering? or Reinscribing Existing Relations? |
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Friday 10/7
Session H-3
03:30 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Online Dreams, Myths, & Communities: Feminists Engage Computer Technologies |
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Natalia Rybas (chair) |
Bowling Green State U |
Professional Online Portfolios: A Feminist Promise |
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Sergey Rybas |
Bowling Green State U |
Professional Online Portfolios: A Feminist Promise |
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Anne Frances Wysocki |
Michigan Tech U |
The Sweet, Glamorous, & Deadly Pink of Dreams: Real Live Girls-& Babies & Gadgets-Perfected Online |
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Patrick Berry |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Technological 'Corruption' & the Myth of Female Authenticity |
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Kristine Blair |
Bowling Green State U |
Computers & Composition Online: Feminist Community & the Politics of Digital Scholarship |
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Lanette Cadle |
Bowling Green State U |
Computers & Composition Online: Feminist Community & the Politics of Digital Scholarship |
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Friday 10/7
Session H-4
03:30 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Denying Traditional Subjugations: Feminist Praxis in Media, Multicultural & Religious Venues |
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Lisa Shaver (chair) |
Miami University (OH) |
Let Her Keep Silent in the Church?: Women in Antebellum America's Evangelical Press |
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Anu Chatterjee |
U of Cincinnati |
We Have Met the Other & She Is Us: Teaching& Learning Multiculturally
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Mary Thompson |
James Madison University |
America's Next Top Model
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Friday 10/7
Session H-5
03:30 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Rhetorics of Silence |
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Meagan S. Rodgers (chair) |
U of New Hampshire |
Silence & Whiteness: Understanding Why Students Do Not Speak |
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Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco |
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez |
The Rhetoric of Silence: A (Re)view of the Other Side |
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Christine Denecker |
U of Findlay |
Spaces of Silence: The Rhetorical Humility of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz |
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Patricia Pender |
Pace University |
Arresting Silence: Reading Modesty Rhetorically |
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Friday 10/7
Session H-6
03:30 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Feminist Foremothers |
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Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran (chair) |
Michigan State U |
Mo'olelo, Wahine, Lahui: Herstories & Haunani-Kay Trask's Womanist Rhetorics |
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Aesha Adams |
Pennsylvania State U |
'Who is Sufficient for These Things?' The Construction of Rhetorical Authority in the Hart Sisters' History of Methodism |
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Christy Oslund |
Michigan Tech U |
Double Jeopardy for the Female Voice |
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Friday 10/7
Session H-7
03:30 pm
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Conflicting Values & Polarized Images: Education, Class, & Femininity |
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Linda S. Bergmann (chair) |
Purdue University |
The Voice(s) of a Founder: Elizabeth Agassiz & the Institutionalization of Education for Women |
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Lisa Suter |
Miami University (OH) |
Speaking Through Windows: The (Silent) Rhetoric of Stained Glass at a Nineteenth-Century Female Seminary |
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Jennifer Cellio |
Miami University (OH) |
You Can't Be a Nice Girl Inside if You're a Dirty Slut Outside: Rhetorics of Femininity, Class, & Cleanliness |
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Friday 10/7
Session
8:00 - 9:15 pm
Fisher Hall, Rm 135 |
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Keynote Speaker: Due to family circumstances, Donna Haraway is unable to be with us. |
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cancelled |
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