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CWS Social at 4C's
Thursday, March 14th @ 6:30pm
1126 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
Phone: (412) 281-9300
WEDNESDAY MARCH 13
Kimberly Drake, Tobi Jacobi, Patrick Berry, Alexandra Cavallero, Wendy Hinshaw, Cory Holding, Aimee Krall-Lanoue, Laura Rogers, Sarah Stanley, Celena Todora, Daniel Wuebben, Marlowe Miller
MW.01 - Performing Prison: Intentional Teaching, Research, and Writing Inside & Out
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Room 306
We engage in interactive discussions of prison teaching, group activity and reflection, and a session in which we engage with the voices of incarcerated writers
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Steven Fraiberg, Zsuzsanna Palmer, Brooke Ricker Schreiber, Xiqiao (Sonja) Wang, Joshua Belknap, Ashok Bhusal, Suresh Canagarajah, Alyssa Cavazos, Edinburg Elif Guler, Daewoo Jin, Ling Jin, Hiyun Jung, Soyeon Lee, Xinqiang Li, Fang-Yu Liao, Jacob Martens, Joyce Meier, Munira Mutmainna, Sushil Oswal, Andrea Parmigiani, Qin Ren, Cristina Sanchez-Martin, Julie Saternus, Lisya Seloni, Christina Taheri, Pouya Vakili, Joyce Walker, Jian Wang, Demet Yigitbilek, Yi Yu,
MW.04 - Engaging the Global: Performing Translingual/Transmodal Pedagogies in Writing Classrooms
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Room 317/318
This workshop provides participants with specific pedagogical strategies to help leverage students’ home literacies as learning resources and to foster translingual disposition and performance.
THURSDAY MARCH 14
Lauren Bowen, Laurie A. Pinkert, Christopher Andrews, Jennifer Hewerdine, Abby Orenstein, Joel Wingard
A.13 - Disciplinarity and Disruption in the Academic Lifecycle
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM, Room 311
This panel will critically examine the process of becoming disciplined in the field of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies across different phases of the academic lifecycle.
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Deborah Mutnick, Julie Cook, Ligia Mihut, Tony Scott
A.28 - Attunement, Performance, and Valuation across the Scales of Composition
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM, Room 335
With attention to the scales of composition practice, this panel will provide a backdrop for a conversation about attunement, performance, identity, and valuation in composition.
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Amber Buck, Kristin Ravel, Ryan Shepherd
B.08 - Networked Identity Performance: Longitudinal Explorations of Social Media
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM, Room 307
This panel turns to long-term studies on social media to consider how identity performance changes as platforms have transformed over time.
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Shahla Asadolahi, Steven Lamos, Jaime Armin Mejía
B.39 - Affects and Assimilations
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM, Room 408
There is much to learn from stories of performance, including new literate intensities and agencies.
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Lara Smith-Sitton, Lauren Bowen, Rachel Donegan, Clarissa Eaton, Joseph Janangelo, Pamela Saunders
B.45 - Accessible, Inclusive, Equitable: Priorities in Socially Just Writing Program Design
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM, Room 415
Together we address crucial qualities of socially just writing programs.
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Angela Morris, Debra Knutson, Jonathan Stone, Jon Wargo
C.36 - Analyzing Rhetorics of Sound
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM, Room 404
From Appalachian hymns to sonic archives, this session explores the mellifluous ways in which the rhetorics of sound function.
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Pamela Takayoshi, Derek Van Ittersum, Yvonne Lee, Sheila McQuaid, David Nickell
D.19 - Performing Research Roles: Inviting Messiness into a Graduate Research Design Course
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, Room 324
By engaging graduate students in a collaborative research project, this panel argues that the messiness of research processes offers a challenging, but rewarding, learning experience.
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Kim Gunter, Aicha Haller, Meagan Morelli, Cynthia Moyano, Khalela Stevens, Cristian Zuniga
E.05 - Collaborating—No, Really Collaborating—with FYC Students on Curriculum Design
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 302
One WPA and five FYC students describe their collaborative design of a new writing curriculum, a curriculum that will be piloted in the coming semester.
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Star Vanguri, William FitzGerald, Rebecca Moore Howard, Andrea Olinger, Brian Ray
E.26 - Style and the Future of Composition Studies
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM, Room 334
This roundtable asserts that the reemergence of stylistic inquiry can be used dynamically to produce new insights for our discipline.
FRIDAY MARCH 15
Yu-Kyung Kang, Eileen Lagman, Kaia Simon, Amy Wan
G.21 - Performing the Embodied Work of Transnational Literacy
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Room 324
This panel examines the ways that the body acts as a site for transnational meaning-making and offers the corporeal means to perform particular literate identities.
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Christina Grant, Leigh Graziano, Samantha Looker-Koenigs, Samuel Stinson, Jessica L. Ulmer, John Whicker,
G.26 - How Do You WAW? Enacting Writing about Writing Pedagogies: Which One, What Is Your Goal, and by What Should Your Performance Be Measured?
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Room 329
Roundtable on WAW courses and the axiology that underlies them. Presenters and audience will discuss the diversity of values evident in different approaches to WAW.
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Jennifer Marciniak, Lindsay Rose Russell, Phyllis Ryder
G.29 - Class, Race, and the Rhetorical Work of Words and Memes
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Room 334
This panel will explore constructions and performances of class and race across media and communities.
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Tristin Hooker, Caitlin Larracey, Maggie Shelledy
G.34 - Missions, Scripts, and Maps: Performing Institutions
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Room 402
The artifacts and repertoires of institutional identity (i.e., branding) at two-year colleges invite contradictory performances—of dwelling, of placelessness, of pathways—for students and faculty.
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Megan J. Bardolph, Savannah Block, Heather Listhartke, Adam Robinson
G.40 - Interface: Disability, Access, Pedagogy
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Room 409
This panel explores disability rhetorics across a range of critical approaches.
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Cecilia Lucero, Erin McLaughlin, Nicole MacLaughlin
H.06 - Composing the First-Year Experience: Performance-Based Writing Projects for Personal, Intellectual, and Social Success
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, Room 305
This panel will explore the role of performance-based experiences in supporting the academic and social needs of first-year students at elite institutions.
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Aaron Beveridge, Sergio Figueiredo, John Gallagher, Steve Holmes
H.07 - Demystifying Algorithmic Performance: Able-ism, Pandering, and Hacking in Digital Environments
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, Room 306
This panel explores the ethics of how writers perform in digital environments, and the role that algorithms play in extending or constraining those performative activities.
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Thomas Burkdall, George Cusack, Ghada Gherwash, Meridith McCarroll, Shawna Shapiro, Stacey Sheriff, Kara Wittman, Marion Wolfe, Bruce Kovanen, Allison Kranek
H.12 - Writing Education in SLAC Contexts: Performance & Talkback
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, Room 311
Join us to talk about SLAC writing education, including curricula, pedagogies, research, policies, and practices that highlight writing as a liberal art.
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Ann Green, Norman Conti, Cory Holding, Daneryl Weber, Grace Wetzel
I.15 - Inside/Out: A Conversation about Prison Pedagogy
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Room 317/318
This roundtable will explore Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program courses at four universities involving several different prison populations.
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Frank Farmer, Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Moriah Kirdy, Danielle Koupf, Martha Webber
I.21 - Craft in the Classroom: Critical Making- and Crafting-Oriented Pedagogies
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Room 325
Learn about pedagogies of making and crafting, which perform a variety of rhetorical functions, and create your own material compositions.
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Andrea Janelle Dickens, Katherine Flowers, Nancy Mack, Anna Zeemont,
I.35 - Race This: Writing, Writing Studies, Writing Students
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Room 405
Speakers consider the challenges of theorizing and teaching writing in a culturally informed, inclusive way.
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Steven Fraiberg, Paul Prior, Kevin Roozen, Anna Smith
J.18 - Tracing Embodied Trajectories of Semiotic Performance in the World: Four Case Studies of Literate Being and Becoming
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM, Room 321
Case studies of people’s embodied semiotic performances with artifacts, languages, texts, images, and gestures shaping their extended historical trajectories of being and becoming.
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Michael-John DePalma, Paul Lynch, John Pell, Melody Pugh, Jeff Ringer, Heather Blain Vorhies
FSIG.02 - Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group Business Meeting
3:30 PM - 4:30PM, Room 302
The Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group aims to foster scholarship and teaching about religion, rhetoric, and composition.
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Benjamin Miller, Andrea Olinger
FSIG.14 - Writing about Writing Development Group Meeting
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Room 327
The Writing about Writing meeting includes a business plenary and breakout groups for projects, proposals, and conversation about WAW research and pedagogy, following attendee interests.
SATURDAY MARCH 16
Paul Beilstein, Allison Kranek, María Carvajal Regidor
K.15 - Uncovering and Recovering Institutional Histories: Basic Writing, Living-Learning Communities, and Cultural Centers at an R-1
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM, Room 324
We draw on institutional archives to explore implications of institutional memory and programmatic interventions for the present.
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Glenn Lester, Nicole Emmelhainz, Rebecca Gerdes-McClain, Stacy Kastner, Kaia Simon, Amanda Sladek, Courtney Adams Wooten
K.27 - Power, Performance, and the Untenured WPA
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM, Room 401
This roundtable discussion focuses on performing the kinds of managerial power required by WPAs, within the confines of pre/non-tenure positions at a variety of institutions.
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Libby Catchings, Bri Lafond, Angie Mallory
K.28 - More Than Meets the Eye: Empathy and Deception in Prosthetic Performance
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM, Room 402
Panelists’ challenges of performing empathy by way of false or furtive identification.
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Kory Ching, John Holland, Kirsten Schwartz, Stacy Wittstock,
L.18 - Disrupting Pedagogies through Digital Peer Feedback
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Room 330
Digital tools afford opportunities to reframe our understandings of peer feedback and how such tools help to refine our pedagogies.
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Joyce Walker, Elizabeth Calero, Jennifer Coletta, Shannon Harman
L.30 - Foregrounding Diverse Literacies in First-Year Writing: Writing as Performance within and across Diverse Communities
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Room 407
Exploring how students bring their diverse literacies into the composition classroom, and how they draw on those literacies across communities and contexts, including academic/professional contexts.
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Cynthia Johnson, Bruce Kovanen, Caitlin Martin, Nicole Turnipseed, Joyce Walker
M.17 - Perspectives on Being and Becoming: Responses to Transfer Theory
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, Room 329
Critiquing and extending transfer theory, we facilitate discussion about perspectives on being and becoming to promote holistic views of teaching and learning.
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Caroline Jennings, Mary P. Sheridan, Jody Shipka
M.31 - Slicing and Dicing through Research Contexts
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM, Room 409
Our panel coalesces a shared concern for performances of cutting in three distinct contexts.
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Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner, Theresa Lillis, Vivette Milson-Whyte, John Trimbur, Amy Wan
N.20 - Street Performance: Brian Street in Theory and Practice
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, Room 329
This roundtable honors the continuing effects of the late Brian Street’s work on literacy and writing studies scholarship and teaching.