Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference
Saturday Schedule
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Saturday
Session I-1
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Feeling Pedagogy: Rhetorics of Empathy, Humility, & Respect |
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Julie Lindquist (chair) |
Michigan State U |
Pedagogy, Pragmatics, & Professionalization: Emotion Cultures & Graduate Education |
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Gwen Gorzelsky |
Wayne State U |
Rhetorics of Respect: Fostering Students' Intellectual Ownership through Classroom Rhetorical Strategies |
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Lisa Langstraat |
Colorado State U |
On the Politics of Compassion & the Promise of Restorative Justice: Some Notes on Teaching Victim Empathy Courses to Female Juvenile Offenders |
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Saturday
Session I-2
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Gendered Professions |
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Jennifer Courtney Rowan University (chair) |
Rowan University |
Domestic Discourse: Alternatives to 'Women's Work' |
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Christine Norris |
U of Nevada-Reno |
Gender, Genius, & the Manly Chef |
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Eliot Rendleman |
U of Nevada-Reno |
Making Waves: A Genealogy of the Gender/Writing Discourse in College Composition & Communication, 1950-Present |
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Saturday
Session I-3
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Collaborative Rhetorics & the Creation of Memories in Girls' & Women's Groups, 1880-1920 |
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Nan Johnson (chair) |
Ohio State U |
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L. Jill Lamberton |
U of Michigan |
Institutional Memory & Memorial Day Tea: The Case of Alice Longfellow & Radcliffe College |
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Amy Mecklenburg-Faenger |
Ohio State U |
Revising Memory: Examining Rhetorical Tactics in the Archives of Progressive Era Women's Clubs |
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Kate White |
Ohio State U |
Revising Memory: Examining Rhetorical Tactics in the Archives of Progressive Era Women's Clubs |
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Henri Rix Wood |
U of Missouri-Kansas City |
Girls Co-Authoring Community: The Yearbook of Miss Barstow's School, 1901-1910 |
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Saturday
Session I-4
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Seeking the 'Available Means' to Collaborate & Mediate in Feminist Writing Program Administration |
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Beth Carroll (chair) |
Appalachian State U |
Rhetorical Strategies for Developing Relationships & Support Outside Programs |
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Rebecca Jones |
U of Texas Pan American |
Rhetorical Strategies for Developing Collaborative Relationships within Programs |
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Georgia Rhoades |
Appalachian State U |
Exploring Feminist Rhetorics Through Scenarios & Performance |
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Saturday
Session I-5
08:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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How Feminist is the Language of Academic Feminism? Addressing the Rhetoric of the Feminist Theory Classroom: |
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Abby Arnold (chair) |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
What Does It Mean To Teach Judith Butler? |
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Brandy Grabow |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Finding Feminism in the Academy |
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Sara Littlejohn |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Teaching Feminism from the Inside Out |
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Eve Wiederhold |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Did We Make the Right Choices? |
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Saturday
Session I-6
08:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Negotiating Boundaries: 19th Century American Women & a Culture of Change |
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Carol Mattingly (chair) |
U of Louisville |
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Stephanie Owen Fleischer |
U of Louisville |
Caroline Earle White & the American Woman's Antivivisection Movement: Woman's Rights Expressed through Animals' Wrongs |
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Cynthia E. Britt |
U of Louisville |
Foucault, Cuvier, & the Hottentot Venus |
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Kate Brown |
U of Louisville |
Knocking on Death's Door: Woman's Experience with Spirits & Spiritualism in the 19th-Century |
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Sonya Borton |
U of Louisville |
Habitus, Cultural Boundaries, & the Subversive Methods of African American Women in the 19th Century |
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Saturday
Session I-7
08:00 am
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Military Brides, Immigrant Lives, & Conservative Scribes: Interrogating the Silencing & (Mis)Representation of Women |
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Kristi Serrano (chair) |
Texas Christian U |
The Non-'Issued' Voice: Listening to the Whispers of Army Wives |
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Cassandra Parente |
Texas Christian U |
Keeping Secrets, Telling Lies: Breaking the Triadic Silence of Italian American Women |
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Sarah Yoder |
Texas Christian U |
In Search of Textual Gardens: Writing Conviction Through Place |
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Saturday
Session I-8
08:00 am
Walker, Rm 318 |
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Heading Them Off at the [Im]Passe: Revisiting Feminist Standpoint as a Postmodern Strategy |
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Jane E. Hindman (chair) |
San Diego State U |
Staying in the Moment: Standpoint's Mediation of Discourse & Materiality |
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Angie LaGrotteria |
San Diego State U |
I'm Not Interested in Women's Issues: A Feminist Standpoint on Anti-Feminism |
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Jim Ricker |
San Diego State U |
A Quixotic Standpoint: Resisting an Environmental Partiarchy |
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Jesse Roach |
San Diego State U |
Chivalry & Protection: A Standpoint Analysis of Masculine Politeness |
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Saturday
Session I-9
08:00 am
Walker, Rm 108 |
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Nineteenth-Century Women Writing the Self in Non-Traditional Spaces |
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Ryan Davidson (chair) |
U of Missouri-Kansas City |
Sentinel Sisters: Women & 19th-Century Prison Re-forming |
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Kristin Huston |
U of Missouri-Kansas City |
The Angel of the Nile: Amelia Edwards & the Femininized Voice of Imperial Struggle |
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Jennifer Ford |
U of Missouri-Kansas City |
Haling Education Reform: Sarah Hale's Editorial Power & Persuasion |
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Muffy Guilfoil |
U of Missouri-Kansas City |
What Not to Wear: Etta Floyd's Fashion Advice as Political Commentary in The Opal |
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Saturday
Session I-10
08:00 am
Walker, Rm 109 |
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'we'll support you & be your friend': Identity, Community, & Contested Spaces in Pro Ana/Mia Websites |
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Michele Polak (chair) |
Miami University (OH) |
'ramen and pepsi are not the best dinner choice either, hun': Contextualizing Pro Ana/Mia Websites as Spaces for Identity |
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Heather Stuart |
Miami University (OH) |
'I Used To Be Striving for Perfection, but now, I'm just me...': Theorizing Recovery in Pro Ana/Mia Websites |
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Shawna Rushford |
Miami University (OH) |
'heh, I think I get hit on when I look my sickest it seems: Pro Ana/Mia Websites & Bringing Difficult Conversations into the Classroom |
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Saturday
Session I-11
08:00 am
Walker, Rm 116 |
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Articulating Feminist Identity |
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Maggie Werner (chair) |
U of Arizona |
War! (Good God Y'all) What is it Good For?: Lesbian Identity, Articulation, & the Feminist Sex Wars |
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Julie Jung |
Illinois State U |
Articulating 'Crippledom': Nancy Mairs's Rhetoric of Disability |
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Katie Johnson |
U of Arizona |
Articulating a Historical Perspective of Social Feminism: The 'Municipal Housekeeping' of Catharine Beecher |
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Kelly Myers |
U of Arizona |
Talking Through the Paradox: A Feminist Approach to Academic Discourse |
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Saturday
Session I-12
08:00 am
Walker, Rm 134 |
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Diversifying Work: Feminist Inquiries into the Rhetoric of the Workplace |
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Marika Seigel (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
Freedom to Move: Delivery Rooms as Work Places in Pregnancy Handbooks |
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Stacey Sheriff |
Pennsylvania State U |
This is Not the Place for Women's Work: Jane Addams' WWI Peace Activism |
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Jordynn Jack |
Pennsylvania State U |
Place, Time, Memory: Women's Work at Los Alamos Laboratory, 1943-1945 |
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Jess Enoch |
Pennsylvania State U |
When the Workplace is an Archive: Affirming Diversity through Historiographic Recovery |
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Saturday
Session I-13
08:00 am
Walker, Rm 143 |
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Negotiating Loss: Disability & Grief |
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Colin Kennedy Donovan (chair) |
The Evergreen State College |
Re-membering the Root: Directions of a Radical Disability Rhetoric |
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Qwo-Li Driskill |
Michigan State U |
The Land that Learned to Survive: Decolonial Disability Rhetorics in Native Women's Literature |
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Rochelle L. Harris |
Central Michigan U |
Textures & Tensions of Critical Grief & Intertextuality |
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Saturday
Session I-14
08:00 am
Walker, Rm 144 |
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Subjectivity in Motion: Third World Women Authors Writing Praxis |
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Jennifer Nichols (chair) |
Michigan State U |
Poor Visitor: Mobility & Voice as Structural Critique In Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy |
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Melissa Hasbrook |
Michigan State U |
Serpentine Movement in Nepantla: An Analysis of Gloria Anzaldua
Writing Mestizaje |
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Saturday
Session
9:30 - 10:45 AM
Fisher Hall, Rm 135 |
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Keynote Speaker |
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Jacqueline Jones Royster |
Ohio State U |
Acts of Memory: Gender, Race, & Nation |
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Saturday
Session J-1
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Featured Speaker Panel: Chairs of Conferences Past Definitions & Directions? Views on Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) from Past Chairs of the Conference |
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Nan Johnson (chair) |
Ohio State U at Columbus |
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Lillian Bridwell-Bowles |
Louisiana State U |
Feminist Rhetoric(s) from Inter/Intra-Disciplinary Perspectives |
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Nancy Dejoy |
Millikin University |
Opening Up Feminist Rhetoric Studies to Undergraduate Education |
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Susan Delagrange |
Ohio State U at Mansfield |
Historicizing How Feminist Rhetoricians have Responded to Technology & New Media |
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Nan Johnson |
Ohio State U at Columbus |
Historiography, Theory & The Shaping of Key Questions in the Field |
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Saturday
Session J-2
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Histories of Rhetorical Agency |
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Mary Rosner (chair) |
U of Louisville |
First Sights: Victorian Travelers Encountering the Extraordinary |
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Robin Murphy |
Bowling Green State U |
Ain't I funny, too? Women's Humor as Social Agency |
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Jeanette W. Morris & Evangeline Briley |
East Carolina U |
Nothing from Nothing Leaves Nothing: Rhetorical Analysis of Evangeline Briley's Nothing: The Mentality of the Black Woman |
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Andrea D. Davis |
Michigan State U |
Rhetorical Doubling: Reading the Mission of the National Museum of the American Indian |
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Saturday
Session J-3
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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With Excessive Force: Three Perspectives on the Rhetorical Problems & Promises of Excess |
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Kelly Pender (chair) |
Purdue U |
The ''Excessive' Vs. The 'Non-Excessive' ': A Critical Look at the (Mis)Appropriation of Excess in Composition |
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Karen Kopelson |
U of Louisville |
Resisting Recovery, Recovering Excess: 12 Steps to Critical Consciousness |
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Tara Paulin |
U of Wis-Oshkosh |
Ida B. Wells & the Persuasive Excess of Her Anti-Lynching Campaign |
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Saturday
Session J-4
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Et Al: A Multi-voiced Exploration of the Promises & Challenges of Collaboration |
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Maureen McBride |
U of Nevada-Reno |
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Kara Moloney |
U of Nevada-Reno |
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Saturday
Session J-5
11:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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'Because I Refuse to Make You...': Living, Being, & Offering Rhetorical Options for Creating Change |
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Christa J. Downer (chair) |
Texas Woman's U |
Transforming Student-Citizen-Agents: Multiculturalist Notions of Social Change [PDF download] |
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William Waters |
Northwest Missouri State U |
Offering Options of Non-Violent Change in the Composition Classroom |
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Karen A. Foss |
U of New Mexico |
Perspectives on Change from Feminist Rhetorical Theories |
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Sonja K. Foss |
U of Colorado-Denver |
Perspectives on Change from Feminist Rhetorical Theories |
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Saturday
Session J-6
11:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Gender, Collaboration, & Historical Scenes of Knowledge-Making in Rhetoric & Composition |
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Janice Lauer (chair) |
Purdue University |
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Jennifer Bay |
Purdue University |
Capturing the 1950s Academic Subject |
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Shirley K. Rose |
Purdue University |
Making Knowledge at Early CCCC Workshops |
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Margaret S. Morris |
Purdue University |
Affirming Collaboration as a Scholarly Practice |
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Saturday
Session J-7
11:00 am
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Rhetoric & Black Womanhood |
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Elisa Marie Norris (chair) |
Syracuse University |
Searching for Common Ground: An Examination of Stasis in the Anti-Lynching Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells-Barnett & Jane Addams |
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Gwendolyn D. Pough |
Syracuse University |
Reading, Writing, & Organizing: Contemporary Black Women's Book Clubs & the Activist Legacy |
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Elaine Richardson |
Syracuse University |
Lil Kim: Speakin' the Truth |
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Saturday
Session J-8
11:00 am
Walker, Rm 318 |
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Research on Women |
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Iklim Goksel (chair) |
U of Illinois-Chicago |
Virginity, Womanhood, & Forms of Resistance: Notes from an Ethnographic Fieldwork in Turkey |
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Jaqueline McLeod Rogers |
U of Winnipeg |
Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa: Ethnography as Art |
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Billie Hara |
Texas Christian U |
Biographical Narratives: Battered Women & the Politics of Victimhood |
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Isabel Baca |
U of Texas-El Paso |
Spanish, English, or los Dos? Communicating within the Spanish/English Bilingual Family on the El Paso, Texas/Juarez Mexico Border |
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Saturday
Session J-9
11:00 am
Walker, Rm 108 |
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Research & Gender Bias |
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Karla Kitalong (chair) |
U of Central Florida-Orlando |
An Anti-Feminist Rhetoric of Stock Photography? Digital Asset Management, Metatags, & the Consequences of Classification |
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Patricia Sullivan |
Purdue University |
Public Depictions of How Women Are (Becoming) Unwired |
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Meredith W. Zoetewey |
Purdue University |
Public Depictions of How Women Are (Becoming) Unwired |
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Samantha Blackmon |
Purdue University |
Hot, Helpless, & Homesick: Rhetorical Representations of Women in Video Games |
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Saturday
Session J-10
11:00 am
Walker, Rm 109 |
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Composition & Power |
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Carol Kountz (chair) |
Grand Valley State U |
War & Peace: Finding Harmony Among Writing Genres |
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Tim Fountaine |
St. Cloud State U |
The Disciplinary Space of Writing Centers: A Profession(al)'s Lifeworld in Need of Feminist Sensibilities |
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Jennifer DiGrazia |
U of Massachusetts-Amherst |
No One Wants to Go There: Resistance, Denial, & Possibilities for Queering the Writing Classroom |
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Lauren Rosenberg |
U of Massachusetts-Amherst |
No One Wants to Go There: Resistance, Denial, & Possibilities for Queering the Writing Classroom |
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Saturday
Session J-11
11:00 am
Walker, Rm 116 |
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Rag Rugs & Designing Women: Archives as Sites for Feminist Reconstruction |
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Tarez Samra Graban (chair) |
Purdue University |
The 'Little Woman' at Lafayette: Recuperating Wit in Helen Gougar's Politics & Persuasion |
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Alexis E. Ramsey |
Purdue University |
(Ad)Dressing the Past: Women's Fin-de-Siecle Clothing & a Rhetoric of Clothing |
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Amy Ferdinandt Stolley |
Purdue University |
'Piecing a Quilt's Like Living a Life': Examining Historical Quilts as Autobiographical & Political Texts |
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Saturday
Session J-12
11:00 am
Walker, Rm 134 |
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Nineteenth Century Rhetorics |
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Samantha Looker (chair) |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Women's Work, Women's Worth: The Rhetorical Feminization of Teaching in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America |
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Lisa Zimmerelli |
Montgomery College |
Spiritual Autobiography |
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Saturday
Session J-13
11:00 am
Walker, Rm 143 |
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Rhetorics of Queer Theories |
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Melva J. Kearney (chair) |
U of South Alabama |
Governing Sexual Re-orientation: Lesbians Rediscovering the Lost Feminine Box |
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Danielle Mitchell |
Penn State U, Fayette |
Devious Dykes: The Rhetorical Figure of the Obsessed Lesbian in Popular Culture |
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Amy KM Hawkins |
Columbia College |
Rhetorical Considerations of My Queer Culinary Cunt |
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Amber Davisson |
Western Illinois U |
Seeking a 'Context' to Understand the Body: An Analysis of The Vagina Monologues as a Counterpublic Sphere |
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Saturday
Session J-14
11:00 am
Walker, Rm 144 |
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How Deep is the Well?: Afrafeminist (Re)Definitions of African American Women's Intellectual Power |
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Maria Lorraine Bibbs (chair) |
U of Wisconsin-Madison |
Writing Herself into History |
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Rhea Estelle Lathan |
U of Wisconsin-Madison |
Another Days Journey: A Case of African American Adult Political, Social & Spiritual Literacy Learning |
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Eric Darnell Pritchard |
U of Wisconsin-Madison |
If Black Women Were Free: Literacy, Liberation, Lesbianism & the Combahee River Collective |
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Saturday
Session K-1
12:30 - 1:45 pm
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Feminism & Young Women |
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Jennie Fauls (chair) |
Columbia College-Chicago |
Christians Versus Cool: 7th Heaven's She-vangelists Wage Holy War Against The O. C.'s Devilish Divas |
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Janice Chernekoff |
Kutztown University |
Alternative Rhetorics in the Personal Critical Essay [PDF download] |
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Rosalie Morales Kearns |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Creative Writing Classroom Practice & Insights from Writing Studies |
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Saturday
Session K-2
12:30 - 1:45 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Celebrity Mothers |
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Elizabeth Ann Mackay (chair) |
Miami University (OH) |
'Fit Instruments': Early Modern Maternal Ethos & Uncovering the Unlikely Mother |
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Emily B. Anzicek |
Wayne State U |
Pretty & Pregnant: Images of Celebrity Motherhood in 1950's & Contemporary Magazines |
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Claudia Cassidy Bennett |
Michigan State U |
'Mother Can You Spare a Rhyme?': The Representation of Motherhood in Popular Music |
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Saturday
Session K-3
12:30 - 1:45 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Feminist Pedagogies: Collaborative & Sophistic |
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April L'Heureux (chair) |
St. Cloud State University |
Beyond Theory: Feminist/Sophistic Rhetorical Pedagogies in the Composition Classroom |
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Laura A. Field-Beyrer |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Someone Should Study Me Now ... 'Cause I'm Here & I'm Real: Why We Need the Rhetoric & Activism of Contemporary |
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Kay Mooy |
U of Texas-El Paso |
In Our Classrooms: Pedagogy to confront Hegemony[PDF download] |
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Saturday
Session K-4
12:30 - 1:45 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Feminist Pedagogies: Digital, Cyber, & Real Time |
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Karl Stolley (chair) |
Purdue University |
Think of It as Language, Not Code: Teaching Digital Writing for the Semantic Web |
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Kelly A. Concannon |
Syracuse University |
Teachers 'Scared Straight': Encountering Rhetorical Spaces of Aggression, Hostility, & Objectification in Cyberspace |
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Jill M. McKay |
Michigan State U |
'I didn't Mean to Upset You': Positionality of Female Graduate Students in the Male Dominated Classroom |
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Saturday
Session K-5
12:30 - 1:45 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Women's Rhetorics: Scrapbooks, Conduct Books, & Recipes |
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Florence Elizabeth M. Bacabac (chair) |
Bowling Green State U |
'Sizing Up' Conduct Book Rhetoric for Women: Conduct Rhetors as Instigators of Change or Transcribers of the Status Quo? |
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Jane Greer |
U of Missouri |
Composing Vernacular Histories of Rhetorical Education: Schoolgirl Scrapbooks of the Progressive Era |
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Jen Almjeld |
Bowling Green State U |
Collecting Culture: Scrapbooking Pieces Together from the Past to Shape Society & Individuals |
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Suzanne Kesler Rumsey |
Michigan State U |
The Rhetorics of Home: Recipe Writing as Heritage Literacy Artifact & Technical Communication |
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Saturday
Session K-6
12:30 - 1:45 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Resisting & Constructing Categories of Race, Class, & Gender in Popular Media |
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Denise L. Oles |
Wayne State U (chair) |
From the big house to our house: Reinventing Martha Stewart |
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Hayoung Choi |
U of Cincinnati |
Constructed Subject & the Problem of Resistance: Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha |
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Saturday
Session K-7
12:30 - 1:45 pm
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Anger & Agency |
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Joy Ritchie (chair) |
U of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Critical Anger: Revising Women's Relationship to the Rhetoric(s) of Anger |
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Christine Stewart-Nuņez |
U of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Critical Anger: Revising Women's Relationship to the Rhetoric(s) of Anger |
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Saturday
Session K-8
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Walker, Rm 318 |
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Rhetorics of Embodiment |
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Carly Thomsen (chair) |
St. Cloud State U |
The Sauna: Space, Body mage, & Rhetoric [PDF download] |
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Alison Knoblauch |
U of New Hampshire |
Different Bodies, Different Voices: Exploring Embodied Rhetoric |
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Kristen Seas |
Purdue University |
Cutting the Cord: Seeking New Corporeal Rhetorics for Non-phallic Subjects |
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Saturday
Session K-9
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Walker, Rm 108 |
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Rhetorics of Science |
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Karen Taylor (chair) |
Tulane University |
Framing Feminist Rhetoric: Women & the Public Face of Science |
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Leo Ureel |
Northwestern University |
An Examination of Women's Writing Strategies in Computer Science |
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Kate Lockwood |
Northwestern University |
An Examination of Women's Writing Strategies in Computer Science |
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Alanna Frost |
U of Louisville |
Stories, Transformations: Feminists & the Barbara McClintock Trope |
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Saturday
Session K-10
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Walker, Rm 109 |
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Alternative Rhetorics |
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David M. Grant (chair) |
U of Wisconsin-Madison |
Sustainable Literacy & Ecofeminism |
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Keith S. Lloyd |
Kent State University-Stark |
Redesigning the 'Master's Tools': A Feminist Hermeneutic for Rethinking Argumentation from a Feminist Perspective |
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Jennifer Young Abbott |
Wabash College |
Feminists as Muckrakers: The Campaign Against the Promise Keepers |
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Saturday
Session K-11
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Walker, Rm 116 |
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Women & Law |
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Leslie J. Harris (chair) |
Northwestern University |
Myra Bradwell: Redefining the Relationship between Women & Law |
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Margaret Willard-Traub |
Oakland University |
Material Witnessing: Women's Voices in Contemporary Death Penalty Mitigation |
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Saturday
Session K-12
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Walker, Rm 134 |
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'But on the inside...': Boundary Outlaws & Queer Rhetoric in No Dumb Questions & The L-Word (includes screening of No Dumb Questions) |
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Film Screening |
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No Dumb Questions |
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Erin Smith (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
The Trouble with Uncle Bill: Unsettling Heteronormativity in No Dumb Questions |
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Alex Ilyasova |
Michigan Tech U |
Epistemology of The L-Word |
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Saturday
Session K-13
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Walker, Rm 143 |
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African-American Rhetorics |
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Monika R. Alston (chair) |
Pennsylvania State U |
Understanding Womanist Rhetorics: A Case Study of Representative Barbara Lee |
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Kimberly J. Chandler |
Wayne State U |
Superwoman Was A Black Girl!: The Communication of Identity & the Strong Black Woman Myth |
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Cynthia Smith |
Ohio University |
The Body as Commodity: The Buying & Selling of Sojourner Truth |
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Saturday
Session K-14
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Walker, Rm 144 |
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Rhetorics of Popular Media |
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Greg Kerkvliet (chair) |
St. Cloud State University |
Utilizing Media to Promote a Positive Image of Feminism[PDF download] |
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Nikki Lask Aitken |
Illinois State University |
Wit & Witlessness: How Narration Reconstructs the Text |
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Saturday
Session L-1
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Gender & the Body |
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Heidi Bostic (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
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Lindal Buchanan |
Kettering University |
Acting Bodies: Sarah Siddons, Maternity, & the 18th-Century Stage |
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Aurora Wolfgang |
California State U-San Bernardino |
Rhetoric & Ridicule: Intertextuality & Lesbian Identity in the Letters of Sevigne & Graffigny |
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Lindsay Taylor |
U of St. Thomas |
A World Where She Doesn't Disappear: The Gynocentric Vision of Sarah Pierce |
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Saturday
Session L-2
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Feminisms & Popular Culture |
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Lisa M. Wagner (chair) |
Ohio University |
After All, Your Mother's Getting Older Too: Changing Family Life as Represented in Seventeen Magazine During Second Wave Feminism |
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Kathleen Carlton Johnson |
Independent Scholar |
Fantasy, Feminism & Martha Stewart |
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Saturday
Session L-3
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Feminist Representations of the Other |
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Denise Landrum (chair) |
U of Kentucky |
Feminist Ethics in Creative Nonfiction & Composition |
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Marlia Banning |
Kent State University |
Is Reflexivity (in Reading, Writing, & Research) a Feminist Method? |
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Barbara L'Eplattenier |
U of Arkansas-Little Rock |
Archival Methodology & Methodological Ethos |
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Kim Thomas-Pollei |
Brigham Young University |
Rhetoric of the American Women's Immigrant Memoir: Constructing a Cross-Generational Collective Identity as a Textual Place [PDF download] |
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Saturday
Session L-4
02:00 pm
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Historiography & Feminist Rhetorics |
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Janet Carey Eldred (chair) |
U of Kentucky |
Surplus Literacy: Women, Editing, & Early 20th-Century Class Publications |
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Jo Ann Griffin |
U of Louisville |
Elva Anne Lyon: A Pink Collar Composition Case Study: 1937-1945 |
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Bridget O'Rourke |
Elmhurst College |
'You Inhabit Reality': The Social Rhetoric of Jane Addams |
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Elizabeth Sim |
Saint Cloud State U |
Constructing a Resistant Feminist Model for Literacy through a Re-Examination of the Literacy Practices of Fannie Lou Hamer |
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Saturday
Session L-5
02:00 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Reconceptualizing Conventional Roles for Women & Men |
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Christine Garbett (chair) |
Saint Cloud State U |
Repressive Discourses of Marriage & Motherhood: Recuperating the Rhetoric of Charlotte Perkins Gilman & Emma Goldman in the Feminist Composition Classroom [PDF download] |
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Heather Camp |
U of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Representations of Men in Women and Economics & Herland: Contradictions or Contributions to her Feminist Ideals? |
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Robin E. Jensen |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
'What Every Girl Should Know': Margaret Sanger's Oxymoronic Rhetoric Concerning Sexual Education |
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Saturday
Session L-6
02:00 pm
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Health vs. Medical Care |
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Carlann Fox Scholl (chair) |
Purdue University |
Rebirthing the Clinic: A Case Study-Based Look at Relationship-Centered Medical Care |
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Hannah Bellwoar |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne |
Digital Health & Feminist (Re)Visionings of Healing |
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Jennifer Novak |
U of Minnesota |
What Kinds of Doctors are We Making?: How Medicine is Shaping New Technology Enhanced Teaching Practices |
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Saturday
Session L-7
02:00 pm
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Reproductive Politics |
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Amy Koerber (chair) |
Texas Tech University |
Bucking the System: Rhetorical Agency in the Context of Medicalized Childbirth |
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Kim Price |
Ibis Reproductive Health |
What's in a Name? The Role of Metaphor in Reproductive Policy Discourse [PDF download] |
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Marcia M. Smith |
U of Arkansas-Little Rock |
The Rhetoric of Reproduction: Amniocentesis as Threat to Diversity |
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Angela Haas |
Michigan State U |
Wired Wombs: A Rhetorical Analysis of Online Infertility Support Communities |
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Saturday
Session L-8
02:00 pm
Walker, Rm 318 |
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Rhetorics & French Women Writers |
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Nancy Myers (chair) |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Demonstrating Feminine Rhetorical Agency in the Work of Christine de Pizan |
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S. Elizabeth Florian |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Christine de Pisan & the Quarrel of the Rose |
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Diane Desrosiers-Bonin |
McGill University |
Rhetoric & French Women Writers of the 16th Century |
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Jean-Philippe Beaulieu |
Universite de Montreal |
Creating a Feminine Authorial Persona: Rhetorical Strategies in Marie de Gournay's Discours sur ce Livre |
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Saturday
Session L-9
02:00 pm
Walker, Rm 108 |
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Historically Reconfiguring Women's Roles as Workers, Educators, & Mothers |
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Katharyn M. Privett (chair) |
Auburn University |
Undoing Mother: The Coup d`etat of Chopin |
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Sarah Bowles |
Miami University (OH) |
A Woman's Place: Katherine Pettit, May Stone, & the Hindman Settlement School |
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Janine Solberg |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Girl with a Paycheck |
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Amy J. Wan |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Women's Work: Union Sponsored Literacy Training in the United States, 1900-1940 |
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Saturday
Session L-10
02:00 pm
Walker, Rm 109 |
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The New American Woman of the 19th Century |
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Wendy Hayden (chair) |
U of Maryland-College Park |
The Rhetoric of Science as the Basis for 19th-Century Free Love Feminism |
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Dana Carluccio |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Rhetorics of Functional Causality |
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Saturday
Session L-11
02:00 pm
Walker, Rm 116 |
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Resistance Initiated by the Disenfranchised |
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Donna L. Scheidt (chair) |
U of Michigan |
Breeching the Feminine: A Textual-Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Gender Politics in the Junior Girls' Play |
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Kathryn E. Lane |
U of Louisiana-Lafayette |
Where's Virginia Now?: Mass Cultural Consumption of a Feminist Icon |
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Lisa Costello |
Louisiana State U |
Rhetorical Strategies & Gendered Responses in Laura Hillman's I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree & Elie Wiesel's Night [PDF download] |
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Sue Carter |
Bowling Green State U |
Ritual, Public Display, & Enthymemes: The Construction of Frances Willard's Christianity |
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Inez Schaechterle |
Bowling Green State U / Buena Vista University |
Ritual, Public Display, & Enthymemes: The Construction of Frances Willard's Christianity |
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Saturday
Session L-12
02:00 pm
Walker, Rm 134 |
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Female Bodies |
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Daniela Ragusa (chair) |
U of Rhode Island |
Big Girls, Don't Cry! The 'New' Rhetoric of the 'Plus-Size' Fashion Industry: An Institutional Critique |
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Kelly Jo Fulkerson |
U of Tenn-Chattanooga |
The Chador: Sartorial Rhetoric of Iranian Women |
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Rechelle Christie |
Texas Christian University |
Body of Evidence: The Visual Rhetoric of Subversive Female Bodies |
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Martha A. Webber |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Kio's Accessorized Interface: Discourses of Fashion & Gendered Technology in Wearable Computing |
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Saturday
Session L-13
02:00 pm
Walker, Rm 143 |
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Citizenships & Feminisms |
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Andrea Williams (chair) |
University of Calgary |
Canadian Women's Suffrage Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Practices of Nellie McClung |
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Paige Marie Van Osdol |
U of Missouri-Kansas City |
Gertrude Buck & the Dramatic Workshop: Rhetorical Theories Meet Educational Practices |
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Angela G. Ray |
Northwestern University |
The True Meaning of This Term Citizenship: Subversive Interpretation in the Suffrage Rhetoric of Virginia & Francis Minor [PDF download] |
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Cindy Koenig |
Northwestern University |
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Saturday
Session L-14
02:00 pm
Walker, Rm 144 |
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Disrupting Constructions of Abnormality: Breast Cancer Narratives, AIDS Reports, & Birth Plans |
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Lizabeth Rand (chair) |
Hampden-Sydney College |
The Creative Force of Words: An Analysis of Three Breast Cancer Narratives |
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Kathleen Lamp |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne |
Conflicting Discourse on AIDS & Sex Trafficking in Mumbai & Kolkata |
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Kim E. Hensley Owens |
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne |
Birth Plans as Preemptive Strikes: Bodily Authority & Rhetorical Disability |