Preparing the Professorate as Teachers: Innovations in Rhetoric and Composition Programs

3:30 PM

Hilton San Francisco

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators

Presiding: Joseph Janangelo, Loyola Univ., Chicago

1. *Deep-Time Pedagogy: Shifting Teacher Training from Inoculation to Deep Time,* Denise K. Comer, Duke Univ.

2. *Deaf Students in Mainstream First-Year Composition: Some Considerations for Writing Program Administrators,* Danielle Cordaro, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

3. *Teaching and Writing from a Feminist Perspective: A Graduate Certificate Program in Secondary Education and Women*s and Gender Studies at the College of New Jersey,* Mary Goldschmidt, Coll. of New Jersey; Janet Gray, Coll. of New Jersey

Respondent: Joseph Janangelo, Loyola University Chicago

WPA Party

6:30 PM

The Party will be on Saturday, December 27th, from 6:30-8:30 PM in Joe Janangelo's hotel suite:

Hotel Nikko
222 Mason St
San Francisco, CA
(415) 394-1111

Look for great company, and array of beverages, and light (yet sustaining) snacks.

25. Preparing the Professoriat as Teachers: Innovations in Rhetoric and Composition Programs

3:30–4:45 p.m., Lombard, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators
Presiding: Joseph M. Janangelo, Loyola Univ., Chicago
1. “Deep-Time Pedagogy: Shifting Teacher Training from Inoculation to Deep Time,” Denise K. Comer, Duke Univ.
2. “Deaf Students in Mainstream First-Year Composition: Some Considerations for Writing Program Administrators,” Danielle Cordaro, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette
3. “Teaching and Writing from a Feminist Perspective: A Graduate Certificate Program in Secondary Education and Women’s and Gender Studies at the College of New Jersey,” Mary Goldschmidt, Coll. of New Jersey; Janet Gray, Coll. of New Jersey
Respondent: Joseph M. Janangelo

115. Teaching the University: A Roundtable

7:00–8:15 p.m., Golden Gate 4, Hilton Select

A special session
Presiding: Jeffrey J. Williams, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Speakers: David B. Downing, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania; Katie J. Hogan, Carlow Univ.; Michelle A. Massé, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge

70. Beyond the Classroom: Research into Knowledge Making

5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square 22, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Presiding: David Dayton, Towson Univ.
1. “Using a Hybrid Analytical Framework to Explore the Influence of Culture, Rhetoric, and the Technical Communicator on Technology Diffusion across Cultures,” Grace Coggio, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2. “Impact of Screen-Capture Software and Instructional Videos on Student Revision and Student Attitudes,” Mary Lourdes Silva, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
3. “The Prospects and Challenges of Web 2.0 Technologies for Qualitative Research,” David Dayton

215. Queer Rhetorics

10:15–11:30 a.m., Golden Gate 2, Hilton Select

Presiding: Janet Marie Atwill, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
1. “Queerity and Oratory: Plato, Rhetoric, and the Ethical Subject,” T. Kenny Fountain, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
2. “Confederate Daughter: Beth Brant (Degonwadonti), the Incorporative Maintenance of (Miscege)Nations, and the Queering of Haudenosaunee Rhetorics,” Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Michigan State Univ.
3. “Queer Witness: A Peek into Whittaker Chambers’s Closet,” Julia Mary Allen, Sonoma State Univ.
Respondent: Zakiyyah Jackson, Univ. of California, Berkeley

337. Politics and the Classroom: A Roundtable

3:30–4:45 p.m., Continental 5, Hilton Select

A linked session arranged in conjunction with the Presidential Forum The Way We Teach Now (202)
Presiding: Andrew Hoberek, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
Speakers: Patricia Lynn Bizzell, Coll. of the Holy Cross; Judith Butler, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Jonathan Culler, Cornell Univ.
Respondent: Stanley Eugene Fish, Florida International Univ.

405. Multimodal Literacies: A Pedagogical Imperative?

7:15–8:30 p.m., Continental 1–2, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Writing
Presiding: Mary R. Boland, California State Univ., San Bernardino
1. “When the Essay Is the Gloss: Teasing Out the Intrinsic Writer through the Use of New Media,” Ethna D. Lay, Hofstra Univ.
2. “Comp 2.0: Postdisciplinarity in a Web 2.0 World,” Ann Jurecic, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
3. “Writing on the World: The Teaching of Composition in an Era of Social Computing,” Jay David Bolter, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

173. Professional and Technical Communication: Current Issues and Challenges

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutter, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Presiding: Sam Dragga, Jr., Texas Tech Univ.
1. “The Challenges of Teaching Audience in Community Service Writing Projects,” Sandra B. Hill, Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe
2. “Document Design and Environmental Communication: Unpacking the Rhetoric of Use,” Anne Mareck, Michigan Tech Univ.
3. “Articulating Agency and Knowledge in Technical Communication Practice,” Rachel Wolford, Iowa State Univ.

The Scholarship of Teaching: How Writing Programs Support Teaching-Centered Research

10:15 AM

Hilton San Francisco

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators

Presiding: Deborah H. Holdstein, Columbia Coll., IL

1. *Composition Teachers and Action Research,* John C. Brereton, Boston Athenaeum; Cinthia Gannett, Fairfield Univ.

2. *The Impact of Teacher-Based Research on Undergraduate Teaching in Open-Enrollment Settings: Implications for Basic Writing,* Susan Naomi Bernstein, LaGuardia Community Coll., City Univ. of New York

3. *Peer Tutor as Researcher: Catalysts for a Cycle of Inquiry,Dialogue, and Pedagogical Change,* Jill Gladstein, Swarthmore Coll.

Respondent: Deborah H. Holdstein, Columbia College, Chicago

#468: Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology

8:30-9:45 AM

Location: Golden Gate #5, Hilton

MLA panel includes three winners of the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning competition and focuses on participatory learning in higher education.

450. Deconstructing Histories, Reconstructing Knowledges: Queer Rhetorics and the Practice of History (Re)Making

8:30–9:45 a.m., Golden Gate 2, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition
Presiding: Eric Pritchard, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1. “Excavating ‘T’ Reality in LGBT Archives,” Kelly Rawson, Syracuse Univ.
2. “In Whose Report Will You Believe? Reclaiming Sakia Gunn from History’s Limbo,” Elisa Norris, Syracuse Univ.
3. “Because Silence Is Costly: The National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays and Joseph Beam’s Rhetorical In(ter)ventions into Black and LGBT Histories, 1979–87,” Eric Pritchard

475. What the Study of Rhetoric Offers Composition Studies and Its Intersections with English Studies and Communication Studies

10:15–11:30 a.m., Golden Gate 4, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Presiding: Krista L. Ratcliffe, Marquette Univ.
1. “Rhetorical (Re)Vision: Composition Studies Redux,” Kay Halasek, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
2. “Rhetoric and English Studies: Rhetorical Satire, Literary Whiteness, and Racial Passing in Mark Twain and Toni Morrison,” Joyce Irene Middleton, East Carolina Univ.
3. “A Century after the Divorce: Challenges to a Rapprochement between Speech Communication and English,” Roxanne Mountford, Univ. of Kentucky

518. School Culture and Minority Discourses

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Yosemite A, Hilton Select

Presiding: Vershawn Ashanti Young, Univ. of Iowa
1. “Enriching Literacy: The Smart Discourse of Poor Students from Rural Areas,” David Jolliffe, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville
2. “Code Meshing Not Code Switching,” Vershawn Ashanti Young
3. “The Logic of Listening to Global Englishes,” Bruce Horner, Univ. of Louisville; Min-Zhan Lu, Univ. of Louisville

592. The Good Web: A Workshop in Teaching Your Students How to Evaluate Web Resources

1:45–3:00 p.m., Continental 1–2, Hilton Select

Program sponsored by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention in conjunction with the MLA Committee on Information Technology
Presiding: Matthew Jockers, Stanford Univ.; Susan Schreibman, Royal Irish Acad.

646. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Writing and the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition

5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square 3–4, Hilton Select

686. What Is Rhetoric Research? A Roundtable

7:15–8:30 p.m., Golden Gate 3, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Rhetoric Society of America
Presiding: Jenn Fishman, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Speakers: Cheryl E. Ball, Illinois State Univ.; Qwo-Li Driskill, Texas A&M Univ., College Station; Daniel Ellis, Temple Univ.; Janice Fernheimer, Renssalaer Polytechnic Inst.; Jenn Fishman; Stephanie Lynn Kerschbaum, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
Respondent: Stacey Pigg, Michigan State Univ

531. A Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Reading

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square 22, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Presiding: Ron Tanner, Loyola Coll.
1. “A Reading from the Nonfiction Collection The Impetuous Sleeper,” Donald Morrill, Univ. of Tampa
2. “A Reading from the Essay Collection Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers,” Denise Low-Weso, Haskell Indian Nations Univ.
3. “A Reading from the Poetry Collection Suck on the Marrow,” Camille Dungy, San Francisco State Univ.
4. “A Reading from the Short Story Collection Hydroplane,” Susan Steinberg, Univ. of San Francisco

Composition Studies: Where Is the Discipline? Where Is It Going?

8:30 / 9:45 AM

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Writing. Presiding: Dale Larson, Grays Harbor College.

1. "The Forms of Writing: English and Writing Studies." Dara Rossman Regaignon, Pomona College.
2. "Going Nowhere?" Matthew Heard, University of North Texas.
3. "The Affective Turn in Composition Studies." Douglas Robinson, University of Mississippi.

For copies of abstracts, visit dlarso@gmail.com after 10 Dec.

761. Reintegrating Civic Literacy and Political Rhetoric in the Humanities Curriculum

10:15–11:30 a.m., Yosemite A, Hilton Select

Program arranged by the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition
Presiding: Charles Muscatine, Univ. of California, Berkeley
1. “A Core Curriculum in Civic Literacy and Political Rhetoric?” Donald P. Lazere, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
2. “Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement,” Anne Colby, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
3. “Literature in Education for Civic Leadership,” Ajuan Mance, Mills Coll.
4. “Public Scholarship in—and beyond—the Humanities Curriculum,” Rosa A. Eberly, Penn State Univ., University Park