Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference
Thursday Schedule
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Thursday 10/6
Session A-1
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Historical Perspectives on Gendered Rhetorics |
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Elizabeth Benacka (chair) |
Northwestern U |
It Takes All Kinds of Movements to Make a (Second) Wave: a Radical Feminist Group's Rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment |
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Benjamin Wannebo |
St. Cloud U |
Third Wave Feminisms & Postmodern Rhetorics |
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Keith Dorwick |
U of Louisiana-Lafayette |
'Considering It Is The Worke Of A Woman': Femininized & Masculinist Language in Selected Early Modern English Texts |
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Catherine Amelia Shuler |
Purdue U |
I'm not a feminist, but...: The rhetorical strategies of denial |
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Thursday 10/6
Session A-2
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Desdemona, Don Quixote, & Various Windmills: Gender Issues in Writing Center Work |
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Meghan Monroe (chair) |
Central Mich U |
At the Margins, Into the (Writing) Center: Rhetoric Strategies & Metaphors of the Field |
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Lori Rogers |
Central Mich U |
Identity at the Center: Women's Literacy Practices in Writing Center Work |
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Christina Montgomery |
Central Mich U |
Is Anyone Listening?: Gender Differences in a Writing Center Electronic Discussion Group |
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Thursday 10/6
Session A-3
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Hutterites, Cyborg Corn, & Coyote Pedagogy: 3 Pathways Toward Responsible Agency |
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Molly Hayenga (chair) |
Mich Tech U |
Community, Collaboration, & Feminist Objectivity |
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Jim Nugent |
Mich Tech U |
Toward a Technical Communication Coyo/yourte Pedagogy |
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Erik Hayenga |
Mich Tech U |
Cyborg Dog, DNA, & Networks of Capitalist (Re)production [PDF download] |
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Thursday 10/6
Session A-4
08:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Technobabe Times: A Case Study (in pink) of Young Women Re-Representing Themselves at a Technological (& heavily male & conservative) University |
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Anna Cynar (chair) |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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Kristin Arola |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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Michelle E. Jarvie |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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A.J. Jeske |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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Karen Springsteen |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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Cassie Thiel |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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Thursday 10/6
Session A-5
08:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Introducing Feminist Pedagogy to College Composition through Personal Writing, Argument, & Peer Review |
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Darcy Turner (chair) |
St.Cloud St. U |
panel |
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Loli Dillon |
St.Cloud St. U |
panel |
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Mary Bodelson |
St.Cloud St. U |
panel |
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Thursday 10/6
Session A-6
08:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Exploring the Literacy of Academic Workplaces & the Rhetoric(s) of Class: Working Class Professors Performing Entitlement |
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Catherine Fox (chair) |
St. Cloud St. U |
panel |
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Tracy Ore |
St. Cloud St.U |
panel |
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Thursday 10/6
Session A-7
08:00 am
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Autoethnography: Legitimatizing Pathos in Feminist Rhetorics |
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Merle Kindred (chair) |
Michgan Tech U |
Coming to Autoethnography [PDF download] |
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Diane Miller |
Michgan Tech U |
Autoethnographic Encounters with Feminism at the Co-Op |
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Patty Sotirin |
Michgan Tech U |
The Juncture of Feminism & Autoethnography |
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Thursday 10/6
Session B-1
09:30 am
MUB Ballroom A |
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Featured Speakers Panel |
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Nancy Grimm (chair) |
Mich Tech U |
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Lisa Ede |
Oregon St U |
Practice Makes Practice: A Mantra for Rhetoric(s) & Feminism(s) |
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Shirley Logan |
U of Maryland-College Park |
Re-Presenting Black Women |
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Anne Ruggles Gere |
U of Mich |
Performing Identities: Native American Women Becoming Recognizable |
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Thursday 10/6
Session B-2
09:30 am
MUB Ballroom B-1 |
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Case Studies in the Rhetoric(s) of Need: An Invitation to Feminist Archival Research |
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Ruth Ray (chair) |
Wayne St U |
Hannan Foundation Archives: History & Access |
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Gwen Gorzelsky |
Wayne St U |
Hannan Files & Community-Literacy Studies |
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Frances Ranney |
Wayne St U |
Hannan Files & Legal Rhetorics |
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Thursday 10/6
Session B-3
09:30 am
MUB Ballroom B-2 |
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Affirming & Producing Feminist Rhetorical Practice through Reflection on Outlaw Emotions |
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Ashley Falzetti (chair) |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Redefinitions from Within: Feminist Approaches to Philosophy |
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Elizabeth Neiman |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Reading the Political in Emotion & Literature |
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Katie Malcolm |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
(Re)Composing Outlaw Emotions |
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Shereen Inayatulla |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Unapologetically Yours, the Open Letter as a Rhetorical Device
in the Work of Gloria Anzaldua and t.j. bryan |
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Thursday 10/6
Session B-4
09:30 am
MUB Ballroom B-3 |
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Eavesdropping on Ourselves: Feminist Acts of Rhetorical Listening |
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Danielle Goldstein (chair) |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Listening to the Silences: Enacting Feminist Rhetorical Strategies in the Compostion Classroom |
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Jenny Hussa |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Under(mining) the Discourse of Appropriation: Rhetorically Listening to Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I a Woman' in Multiple Forms |
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Susan Santha Kerns |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Rhetorical Listening, Transculturation, & Border Thinking |
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Thursday 10/6
Session B-5
09:30 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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An Education of the Heart: a Cross-Cultural Encounter with the Lakota People on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota |
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Katrina McNeely Farren (chair) |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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Rev. Bucky Beach |
Good Shepard Lutheran Church |
panel |
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Suzie Lacasse |
Mich Tech U |
panel |
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Thursday 10/6
Session B-6
09:30 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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The Divine Rhetoric of the Ya Ya Sisterhood |
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Jan Swearingen (chair) |
Texas A&M U |
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Beth Daniell |
Kennesaw State University |
Bless His Heart & Other Rhetorical Moves of the Divine Sisterhood |
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Kate Ronald |
Miami University (OH) |
Well, You Surely Showed Yourself There, Didn't You? |
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Hepzhibah Roskelly |
U of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Divine Secret #1: Pretty Is as Pretty Does |
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Thursday 10/6
Session B-7
09:30 am
MUB, Red Metal Room |
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Warrior & Anti-War Rhetorics |
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Anne Shea (chair) |
U of Southern Cal |
CODE PINK: Feminist Rhetorics on War & Peace |
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Julie Estep |
Michigan Tech U |
Abu Ghraib: Gyno-Niggering & the Myth of Photographic Truth [PDF download] |
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Heidi Huse |
U of Tenn-Martin |
Virtuous Violence? Challenging the Ethos of Animal Exploitation [PDF download] |
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Thursday 10/6
Session C-1
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom A |
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Featured Speakers Panel |
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Erin Smith (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
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Jacqueline Rhodes |
California State U, San Bernardino |
Rhetoric, Performance, & the Spectacular Lesbian |
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Laura J. Gurak |
U of Minn-St. Paul |
Feminism(s), rhetoric(s), & technology(s): Where are we in the post dot-com era? |
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Thursday 10/6
Session C-2
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-1 |
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Feminisms & the Academy |
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Sonia Goltz (chair) |
Michigan Tech U |
Women's Informal Appeals for Equity in Academia |
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Bonnie Gorman |
Michigan Tech U |
Women, Access, & Changes in University Rhetoric at Michigan Tech |
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Diane Miller |
Michigan Tech U |
Expectations for Success in the Culture of the Academy: Feminist Possibilities |
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Thursday 10/6
Session C-3
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-2 |
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Resistant Rhetorics |
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Ellen Partridge (chair) |
U of Rhode Island |
(An)Other Animal Entirely? Rhetorical Constructions of Animals in Recent Literature & Film |
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Christa Albrecht-Crane |
Utah Valley State College |
What Is a Woman? Narrative & Artifice in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace |
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Katy Southern |
U of Wisc-Madison |
Representing Girlhood, or How Wielding a Frying Pan While Using Her Brother For Bait Establishes a Witch's Ethos |
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David M. Rieder |
North Carolina State U |
Found in Translation: Sophie Calle's 'Methodology of the Oppressed' [PDF download paper slides] |
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Thursday 10/6
Session C-4
11:00 am
MUB, Ballroom B-3 |
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Empty Panel |
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Thursday 10/6
Session C-5
11:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge A |
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Transnational Feminist Rhetorics: Debating Identity, Difference, & Coalition-Building |
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Eileen E. Schell (chair) |
Syracuse U |
Transnational Feminist Rhetoric & the Environment: Vandana Shiva & the Struggle over Biodiversity |
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Jennifer Wingard |
Syracuse U |
Embodying Motherhood to Re-image the Self: San Francisco Latina Activists' Use of State Rhetoric to Redefine the Terms of the 'Immigrant' |
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Thursday 10/6
Session C-6
11:00 am
MUB, Alumni Lounge B |
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Global Rhetorics |
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Simona Fojtova (chair) |
U of New Mexico |
Eisenhower & the Homoerotic: The Unlikely Union in 1950s Czechoslovakia |
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Hanife Aliefendioglu |
Eastern Mediterranean U (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) |
Masculine Language Use & Women in Jokes & Caricatures in Northern Cyprus' Print Media [PDF Download] |
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Yetin Arslan |
Eastern Mediterranean U (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) |
Masculine Language Use & Women in Jokes & Caricatures in Northern Cyprus' Print Media [PDF Download] |
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Astrid Henry |
Saint Mary's College |
Third-Wave Feminism in Scandinavia |
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Thursday 10/6
Session C-7
11:00 am
MUB, Red Metal Rm |
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Early Modern Gendered Rhetorics |
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Cristy Beemer (chair) |
Miami University (OH) |
Usurping Authority in the Midst of Men: Royal Gender Representations |
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AnDrea Cleaves |
Bowling Green State U |
You May Take My Body, But Not My Soul: The Analysis of Letitia Wigington's Confession |
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Cheryl Greene |
Arizona State U |
Artistic License: Creativity, Invention, & Alternative Visual Rhetorics of Renaissance Women Painters |
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Kathryn Comer |
U of Colorado |
Translating & Transcending Eve's Sentence: Lucy Hutchinson's Order & Disorder |
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Thursday 10/6
Session
2:15 -3:30 pm
Rozsa Center |
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Keynote Speaker |
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Min-Zhan Lu |
U of Wisc-Milwaukee |
Class Matters: Gender, Critical Literacy, & the Global Restructuring of Capitalism |
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Thursday 10/6
Session
6:15 - 7:30 pm
Rozsa Center |
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Keynote Speaker |
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Helena Viramontes |
Cornell U |
Reading |