10:15: The Scholarship of Teaching: How Writing Programs Support Teaching-Centered Research

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

8:30-9:45: #468: Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology

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.

8:30–9:45 a.m., Golden Gate 2, Hilton: 450. Deconstructing Histories, Reconstructing Knowledges: Queer Rhetorics and the Practice of History (Re)Making

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

10:15–11:30 a.m., Golden Gate 4, Hilton: 475. What the Study of Rhetoric Offers Composition Studies and Its Intersections with English Studies and Communication Studies

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

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Yosemite A, Hilton: 518. School Culture and Minority Discourses

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

1:45–3:00 p.m., Continental 1–2, Hilton: 592. The Good Web: A Workshop in Teaching Your Students How to Evaluate Web Resources

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.

5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square 3–4, Hilton: 646. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Writing and the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition

7:15–8:30 p.m., Golden Gate 3, Hilton: 686. What Is Rhetoric Research? A Roundtable

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

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square 22, Hilton: 531. A Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Reading

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