CWS is proud to announce current graduate students and faculty presenting at 4Cs this year!
Wednesday, March 15
Paul Beilstein, Allison Kranek, Evin Groundwater, Kelly Ritter
W.07 9:00am-5:00pm
Session: Implementing Long-Term Changes to Basic Writing Programs in Local Contexts
This workshop will engage participants with strategies and models intended to facilitate long-term changes to basic writing (BW) curricula.
María Carvajal
AW.03 1:30pm-5:00pm
Session: LatinX Taking Action In and Out of the Academy: The Doing of Social Justice Work in our Local Communities
This workshop seeks to cultivate community networks of social justice and educational advocacy and will focus on cultivating critical dialogues between these advocacy community leaders, the Latin@ Caucus, and scholars wanting to expand their understanding of the intricacies of social justice work.
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Thursday, March 16
Logan Middleton
A.37 10:30am-11:45am
“Writing Deafness: Navigating Gestural Language, Literacy, and Deaf Identity in the Composition Classroom”
Session: Cultivating Accessibility and Inclusion through Disability Pedagogy and Universal Design
This session examines student learning environments in relation to universal design principles and inclusive learning.
Katherine Flowers
C.34 1:45pm-3:00pm
“Navigating Monolingual, Multilingual, and Translingual Orientations in Local Language Policy: A Case Study of Anti-English-Only Activism”
Session: Policies and Publics in Multilingual Research
Speakers discuss public engagements with language and policy in academia, communities, and media.
Annie Kelvie
C.05 1:45pm-3:00pm
“Eshet Chayil: Taking Back the Proverbs 31 Woman in a Shifting Faith”
Session: Digital, Apostolic, Mystical, Embodied: Religious Women’s Disarticulating Rhetorics
Rhetoric and Religious Traditions sponsored panel about the disarticulating public rhetorics of religious women.
Paul Prior
C.18 1:45pm-3:00pm
Chair and respondent for Session: Mapping Transnational Literacies: Cultivating Translingual Perspectives of Textual Practice in our Research and Teaching
This panel articulates a “mobile literacies” framework for tracing translingual practices across transnational networks.
John Gallagher
D.08 3:15pm-4:30pm
“Cultivating the Virtues of Patience and Persistence”
Session: Cultivating Virtues
In this panel, the presenters examine the role of virtue and virtue ethics in teaching writing.
Lindsay Rose Russell
D.11 3:15pm-4:30pm
“Genre Invention”
Session: Genre Activists
This panel theorizes how genres are questioned, criticized, and reinvented by critical participants for activist aims.
Evin Groundwater
20 3:15pm-4:30pm
Session: Composing Activist Spaces: The Spatial Rhetorics of Civil, Disability, and Men’s Rights Movements
This panel investigates how activists compose new meanings of space to argue for inclusion, rights, and justice.
Carolyn Wisniewski
28 3:15pm-4:30pm
“Novice Writing Teachers’ and Tutors’ Development of Effective Response Strategies”
Session: Peer Teaching and Tutoring Strategies in the Writing Center and Beyond
Panelists discuss teaching for transfer, proofreading, and other response strategies for facilitating student writing in the writing center and beyond.
Catherine Prendergast
E.03 4:45pm-6:00pm
Session: Cultivating a More Equitable Professional Organization
The goal of this session is to work with a diverse group of participants from across identifications to develop a list of actionable recommendations for the CCCC Executive Committee and for the organization more generally. Building on the Cultivate session “Working and Getting Worked: An Interactive, Decolonial, Queer, and Feminist Roundtable on Labor in Rhetoric and Composition,” this Think Tank will start with a fifteen-minute rapid brainstorm of issues over Google Drive. These issues will be used to develop a collectively articulated vision statement or set of long-term goals, along with a clear list of action items that can be immediately delivered to the EC.
Friday, March 17
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María Carvajal
F.07 8:00am-9:15am
“‘I Don’t Just Speak English. And I Don’t Just Speak Spanish. I Speak Both:’ Pedagogical Implications and Applications of Students’ Definitions of Spanglish”
Session: Multilingualism, Identity, and Power
This panel looks at the ways that multilingual speakers assert their agency and resist efforts to disempower them.
Kelly Ritter
G.01 9:30am-10:45am
“Whose Side Are You On?”
Session: Cultivating Leadership on and off Campus: A Roundtable with Senior Administrators
In this Cultivate roundtable, senior faculty who have served in multiple leadership roles will discuss how leadership skills and strategies cross over into areas both expected and unexpected, on and off campus, and how we might communicate these to junior faculty in order to cultivate future leaders. After each facilitator briefly shares his or her unique experiences and insights, attendees will have the opportunity to engage in Q & A and discussion about effective and proactive leadership strategies.
Eric Pritchard
G.05 9:30am-10:45am
“Living History: Black Queer Elders, Mentoring, and Intergenerational Social Change”
Session: Queer Mentorship and the Risks of Creating Change
“Creating change” carries great risk for many LGBT2Q people. Queer mentorship helps and may provide a model for institutional change.
Kaia Simon
G.07 9:30am-10:45am
Session: Cultivating Critical Approaches to Internationalization: Examining Asian/Asian American Literacies and Identities
This panel illuminates the tension we find in students who defy linguistic and national categorization.
Paul Prior
G.23 9:30-10:45
Session: Writing Our Worlds “For Another First Time:” Ethnomethodological Approaches to Studying Literate Action
Draws from several research studies to explore the history, current uses, and potential futures for ethnomethodology in writing research.
Catherine Prendergast
H.50 11:00am-12:15pm
“‘Cripping’ the Writing Classroom: Ableism and the Attendance Policy”
Session: “Cripping” the Writing Program: Disability and Policy Beyond the Ableist Script
Panel critically examines policy documents, specifically the syllabus, as a means to move beyond the ableist script.
Kelly Ritter
J.03 2:00pm-3:15pm
Session: Conference Proposal Submission 101: A Guide to the Process
A successful convention program begins with high-quality proposals. In this Cultivate session, experienced Stage 1 and Stage 2 reviewers will describe the review (and acceptance) processes for each stage and the proposal submission policies and procedures. Additionally, facilitators will offer insights and advice for how to develop a strong CCCC proposal. During this interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to engage in a mock proposal review, to ask questions
about the submission form and process, and to begin developing ideas
for CCCC 2018 proposals.
Melissa Larabee
J.11 2:00pm-3:15pm
“Why Comments Don’t Suck: On Metaphors and Misunderstanding”
Session: Manipulating Virtual Environments
In various and provocative ways, the presenters on this panel describe interventions in popular online ecologies.
Spencer Schaffner
J.11 2:00pm-3:15pm
“Gaming to the Top of the Amazon Review System”
Session: Manipulating Virtual Environments
In various and provocative ways, the presenters on this panel describe interventions in popular online ecologies.
Peter Mortensen
J.42 2:00pm-3:15pm
“Town, Village, Farm: Another Look at Early Twentieth-Century Mass Literacy”
Session: Harvey J. Graff, Literacy Studies, and Composition
This roundtable will reflect on literacy studies and composition through the work of Harvey J. Graff.