THURSDAY MARCH 15
Catherine Prendergast, Laurie Gries, David Wright
A.49 - Writing Our Way Home: Sustaining Ourselves in Our Professional Labor
10:30 AM–11:45 AM Mar 15, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 2503 B
Abstract: We demonstrate how writing can help us sustain not only physical and emotional health, but also the motivation to labor in more humane ways.
Michael Burns, Keith Harms, Josh Lederman, Sean Malloy, Mya Poe
B.12 - Writing Assessment and Social Justice: Methodological and Applied Insights in the Advancement of Opportunity
12:15 PM–1:30 PM Mar 15, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Truman Room B
Abstract: This roundtable features the multiyear studies of historians, teachers, and researchers using social justice methodologies in the study of writing assessment.
Lauren Marshall Bowen, Dylan Dryer, Joseph Janangelo, Louise Phelps, Laurie Pinkert
C.07 - Intellectual Labor and the Academic Lifecycle: Preliminary Findings from a Survey of Perceptions of and Experiences with Retirement in Rhetoric and Composition
3:15 PM–4:30 PM Mar 15, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 3501 C
Sponsored by: Co-Sponsored by Task Force on Cross-Generational Connections and SIG for Senior, Late-Career, and Retired Professionals in Rhet/Comp/Writing Studies
Abstract: This session reports survey results on the perceptions of and experiences with retirement in rhetoric and composition.
Katherine Flowers, Shannon Stimpson, Scott Wible
C.14 - Mixing Research Methods to Study Public Policy Writing
3:15 PM–4:30 PM Mar 15, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 3501 D
Abstract: The panelists describe analytical advantages of combining research methods to study the composition and implementation of public policies.
John Stone, Christie Toth, Emily January Petersen
D.19 - Talking about Talking about Religion: Mormon Rhetorics and the Labor of Religious Dialogue
4:45 PM–6:00 PM Mar 15, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 3501 C
Abstract: This panel presents theoretical, political, and pedagogical arguments for developing a more nuanced understanding of Mormon rhetorics.
FRIDAY MARCH 16
Patrick Berry, Laura Rogers
E.02 - Special Interest Group: Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research, and Literacies Collective
8:00 AM–9:15 AM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 3501 A
Sponsored by: Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research and Literacies Collective
Abstract: This SIG provides opportunities for prison literacy teachers and researchers to share models for those sites and opportunities.
Annie Kelvie, Tracy Donhardt
E-IP.08 - Individual Presentation: Reclaiming and Recasting: The Language Work of Progressive Christians
8:25 AM–8:45 AM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Julia Lee A
Abstract: Progressive Christians participate in rich and creative language practices to create a counternarrative in their own tradition.
Andrea Olinger
F.01 - Writing About Writing Development Group Meeting
9:30 AM–10:45 AM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: Bartle Room 2207
Sponsored by: Writing about Writing Development Group
Abstract: The WAW Standing Group's meeting conducts the group's business and lets members socialize and coordinate efforts in WAW pedagogy & research.
Amy Wan, Jay Jordan, Brice Nordquist, Brooke Ricker Schreiber
F.05 - Laboring across Borders: Ethical and Practical Challenges in Administering Transnational Writing Programs
9:30 AM–10:45 AM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 3501 B
Sponsored by: Sponsored by the Transnational Composition Standing Group
Abstract: Aims to open dialogue on how the tensions between economic and pedagogical demands shape writing programs in three transnational contexts.
Logan Middleton, Cheryl Caesar, Miriam Mara, Caitlin Ray
F.28 - Composing Health Data: Research Practices, Policy Impact, and Personal Testimonies
9:30 AM–10:45 AM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Bennie Moten A
Abstract: Integrating Kenyan cultural register into research methods, analyzing illness narratives and public policy, and understanding affective dimensions of wearable fitness technologies.
James Purdy, Paige Banaji, Kathryn Comer, Erik Juergensmeyer, Sara Kelm
F.37 - The Languages of First-Year Composition
9:30 AM–10:45 AM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Lester Young B
Abstract: Teaching nonviolent tenets, teaching “languaging” across the curriculum; student readings of NCTE and WPA descriptions of FYC.
María Carvajal Regidor, Telsha Curry, Andre Habet, Steve Parks, Sandra Tarabochia
G.07 - Studies in Writing and Rhetoric: Exposing the Gears of a Disciplinary Languaging Machine
11:00 AM–12:15 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: Bartle Room 2215 A
Sponsored by: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series/CCCC
Abstract: SWR Panel on how to submit and publish with the series, also featuring a talk byMaría Carvajal on "The Book We Need."
Carolyn Wisniewski, Kay Halasek, Jennifer Slinkard
G.12 - Responding to Responses: Giving Useful Feedback
11:00 AM–12:15 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: ML Williams A
Abstract: This panel explores responding to student writing, perceived feedback, and training to foster effective comments.
Paul Prior, Nicole Turnipseed, Bruce Kovanen, Kevin Roozen
H.10 - Troubling the Notion of Transfer: Critical Theory, Research, and Reflection on Becoming as Laminated Assemblages
12:30 PM–1:45 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 2503 B
Abstract: Informed by research and theory, we critique the notion of transfer, inviting engaged reflection and discussion of trajectories of becoming.
Steven Lamos, Chareen Grogan, J.C. Lee, Laura Matravers
H.44 - Stories of Undervalued Labor: Agency, Contingency, and Identity
12:30 PM–1:45 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: ML Williams B
Abstract: Artisanal literacy boosts instructors' affect; interviews with contingent faculty reveal their perceptions of the profession; and a study of instructors at a two-year college reveals their professional identities.
Heather Blain Vorhies, Andrew Fiss, Jennifer Burgess, Gregory Wickliff
I.16 - Religion and Technical Communication
2:00 PM–3:15 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Trianon D
Abstract: This panel theorizes the labor of religion in transforming technical communication throughout nineteenth-century America.
Patrick Berry, Cory Holding, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Laura Rogers
I.26 - Literacy Inside Out: What Does It Mean to Be a Critical Educator in Prison?
2:00 PM–3:15 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: Bartle Room 2209
Abstract: This panel considers points of tension between the prison industrial complex and the practice of liberatory literacy education.
Alexandra Cavallaro, Tobi Jacobi, Anna Plemons
J.06 - Moments of (Queer) (Indigenous) (Abolitionist) Possibility in Prison Literacy Education
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Colonial Ballroom
Sponsored by: Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research, and Literacies Collective
Abstract: Moments of (queer) (indigenous) (abolitionist) possibility in prison literacy education.
Kaia Simon, Elizabeth Miller, Bronwyn Williams
J.24 - Becoming, Being, and Un-becoming Literate: Intersections of Body, Community, and Place
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: Bartle Room 2214
Abstract: This panel explores the ways the material conditions of place, community, and the body shape the construction of literate identities.
Bri Lafond, Francesca Astiazaran, Ashley Hamilton, Dan Reade
J.28 - Languaging the Liminal: Laboring with Freirean Idealism in the Writing Classroom
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Mar 16, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Trianon B
Abstract: Speakers will discuss the challenges of incorporating Freirean ideas into the institutionally orthodox environment of writing classrooms.
SATURDAY MARCH 17
Steven Fraiberg, Ligia Mihut, Brice Nordquist, Xiaoye You
K.09 - Laboring across Transnational Scenes of Writing: Toward a Mobile Literacies Framework
9:30 AM–10:45 AM Mar 17, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 3501 A
Abstract: Presents a series of translingual/transmodal studies extending across transnational spheres of activity in the United States, China, and Romania.
Maggie Shelledy, Mark Latta, Rossina Liu
K.28 - Literacies of Freedom, Movement, and Vulnerability
9:30 AM–10:45 AM Mar 17, 2018
Kansas City Marriott Downtown: Truman Room A
Abstract: The Free Alabama Movement prison literacy programs, rhetorical ecologies of public transit riders, and vulnerabilities of public performances by homeless writers.
Karen Lunsford, Linda Adler-Kassner, Jonathan Alexander, Carl Whithaus
K.38 - What Students Know: Writing beyond the Curriculum
9:30 AM–10:45 AM Mar 17, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 3501 H
Abstract: This panel brings together scholars from across the University of California system to detail a multi-year study of student writing.
Kevin Roozen, Amy Kimme Hea, Aimee Mapes
L.08 - Longitudinal Labor: Four Languaging Stories of Writers and Writing
11:00 AM–12:15 PM Mar 17, 2018
Kansas City Convention Center: 2505 A
Abstract: Longitudinal writing researchers offer data-driven discussion of how their methodological frameworks reveal languaging issues in our field.