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• CWS Fall 2020 Welcome Back Event

  Sep 2, 2020 12:30 pm15 views

  Information about our first CWS event of Fall 2020, a virtual community event!

• CWS Fall 2020: A Semester Overview

  Sep 1, 2020 1:30 pm17 views

  A rundown of what the Center for Writing Studies will be up to (remotely) in Fall 2020.

• Spring 2020 End-of-Semester Wrap-Up

  May 18, 2020 9:45 am193 views

  End-of-semester and year information about what CWS has been up to.

• Supporting Communicative Diversity Across the Curriculum: A WAC Workshop

  Mar 5, 2020 3:00 pm35 views

  Details about our forthcoming WAC Workshop—centering around communicative diversity—scheduled for Thurs., 3/5, from 3.00p-4.30p in Henry Admin Building 140.

• CWS Brownbag: "Emerging Trends in Bilingual Education" with Monica Gonzalez Ybarra, Giselle Martinez Negrette, and Idalia Nuñez

  Mar 4, 2020 1:00 pm11 views

  Details for our next CWS brownbag event, "Emerging Trends in Bilingual Education."

• CCCCs 2020 Presenter Guide: CWS Graduate Students, Faculty, and Alums

  Feb 27, 2020 10:30 am18 views

  See what CWS'ers are working on / planning to share next month at the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2020 in Milwaukee, WI. 

• CWS Inaugural Writing Across Media (WAM) Student Work Showcase

  Feb 14, 2020 3:45 pm8 views

  Details about our forthcoming, first-ever Writing Across Media (WAM) Student Work Showcase.

• Spring 2020: Here We Go!

  Jan 21, 2020 9:15 am65 views

  We're excited to announce our Spring 2020 programming; be sure to mark your calendars for these events!

• Fall '19 End-of-Semester Reflection

  Dec 16, 2019 12:30 pm56 views

  A rundown of what CWS has been up to this past semester.

• CWS Graduate Research Forum Talk: Chelsea Catt

  Nov 5, 2019 11:45 am41 views

  This post contains an abstract and bio for Chelsea Catt's forthcoming Graduate Research Forum talk.

• CWS Brownbag: "Writing Centers and Online Tutoring" with Carolyn Wisniewski, María Paz Carvajal Regidor, Evin Groundwater, and Allison Kranek

  Nov 5, 2019 11:45 am2012 views

  Here's an abstract and biographical information for our forthcoming brownbag "Writing Centers and Online Tutoring."

• CWS Meeting: "CWS: The Next 20 Years: Part II"

  Oct 11, 2019 12:45 pm16 views

  Details about the forthcoming all-CWS student, all-CWS faculty meeting "CWS: The Next 20 Years: Part II" to be held on October 30, from 11:00-1:00pm in English Building 36.

• CWS Brownbag: "Women and Dictionary Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography" with Lindsay Rose Russell

  Oct 2, 2019 12:15 pm31 views

  Here's an abstract and biographical information for Lindsay Rose Russell's forthcoming brownbag "Women and Dictionary Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography."

• Fall Symposium—Race, Translanguaging, and Language Ideologies Across the Lifespan

  Sep 24, 2019 11:45 am70 views

  A description of the symposium's methodological workshops, abstracts and bios for the public talks, notes on the post-symposium conversation hour, and accessibility information for the event.

• Fall 2019: Welcome Back!

  Sep 16, 2019 2:15 pm27 views

  We're excited to announce some of the events that we have planned for this Fall '19 semester. Mark your calendars for these events!

• Spring 2019 Reflection

  Jun 4, 2019 8:15 am73 views

  Happy Summer CWS! As Spring 2019 fades into the rearview, we want to reflect on a semester of possibilities and progress.

• Reflections on the Gesa E. Kirsch CWS Graduate Student Symposium

  Apr 17, 2019 1:15 pm90 views

  Maria Carvajal reflects on her experiences at the Gesa E. Kirsch CWS Graduate Student Symposium.

• 10th Annual Gesa E. Kirsh Graduate Student Symposium Program

  Apr 16, 2019 1:45 pm103 views

  The Center for Writing Studies is delighted to announce the program for the 10th Annual Gesa Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium. It will be a great event, and we look forward to seeing you there!

• CCCC 2019 - CWS Faculty, Student and Alumni Panels

  Feb 20, 2019 4:30 pm254 views

  CWS is delighted to announce the list of presenters for the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Current CWS-affiliated faculty and students are noted in bold, alumni are underlined.

  If you are attending the conference, be sure to stop by the CWS Social to catch up with student, faculty and alumni. 

  CWS Social at 4C's

  Thursday, March 14th @ 6:30pm

  Level 7 - Rooftop Hotel Bar

  1126 Smallman Street

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222 Phone:  (412) 281-9300

• Watson Conference 18 CWS Student, Faculty, and Alumni Panels

  Oct 24, 2018 10:00 am183 views

  CWS is delighted to announce the list of presenters at this iteration of the Watson Conference. Current CWS-affiliated faculty and students are noted in bold, alumni are italicized.

• Spring 2018 reflection

  May 17, 2018 9:30 am190 views

  The CWS staff looks back at the spring 2018 semester and forward to upcoming/ongoing projects.

• 9th Annual Gesa E. Kirsh Graduate Student Symposium Program

  Apr 17, 2018 1:00 pm65 views

  We are excited about the upcoming 9th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch symposium! Graduate students from English, Education and Communication will be presenting their research on a variety of interesting topics. This year, our keynote speaker is Kevin Roozen, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida. Dr. Roozen will also be leading a Research Visioning Workshop as part of this year's symposium. 

  We encourage everyone to attend all or part of the Symposium (including the workshop). This event continues to showcase the awesome work that graduate students are doing and it’s a great way to wrap up the year.

  Please see the program and keynote flyer for more information. 

• 4C 18 CWS Student, Faculty and Alumni Panels

  Mar 13, 2018 3:00 pm113 views

  CWS is happy to announce the list of presenters at this year's Conference on College Composition and Communication. Current faculty and students are noted in bold, alumni are underlined.

• Fall 2017 Recap

  Dec 22, 2017 9:00 am107 views

  María Carvajal and Nki Turnipseed provide an update on changes to the CWS admin team and recap the fall semester. 

• Liv Davila on Data as Text

  Nov 16, 2017 2:00 pm35 views

  Bri Lafond shares her thoughts on our November brownbag, "Data as Text" led by Liv Davila. 

• Trans- {Language, Literacies, Modal, National} Symposium: Grappling with Complexity

  Nov 15, 2017 3:15 pm104 views

  María Carvajal reflects on the CWS Trans- {Language, Literacies, Modal, National} Symposium

• CWS Reading/Working Groups

  May 19, 2017 4:45 pm153 views

  Join one of these great groups, or let us help you start a new one!

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  Dissertation Projects with Katrina Kennett and Jenn Raskauskas

  Apr 18, 2017 4:15 pm91 views

  Hannah Harris writes about the work  Katrina Kennett and Jenn Raskauskas presented at the Spring 2017 CWS Grad Student Colloquium

• 8th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch and CWS Graduate Student Symposium Program

  Apr 10, 2017 8:45 am117 views

  The Graduate Symposium Planning Committee is excited to share the program for this year's Gesa E. Kirsch Symposium. Gesa E. Kirsch will be joining us again this year and Mary. P. Sheridan is our alumni keynote speaker.

• Dana Ferris on Providing Effective Feedback to Multilingual Writers

  Apr 6, 2017 3:00 pm328 views

  María Carvajal reflects on Dana Ferris' visit to campus 

• CFP for the 8th Annual Gesa Kirsch CWS Graduate Student Symposium

  Feb 28, 2017 3:45 pm23 views

  Call for Proposals for the 8th Annual Gesa Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium

• CWS Students and Factuly @ 4C17

  Feb 16, 2017 2:30 pm89 views

  CWS is happy to announce the list of presenters at this year's Conference on College Composition and Communication. We have a large number of CWS faculty, students, and alumni who are presenting, so this blog post includes current faculty and students. Look for alumni presenters in the blog post below.

• CWSAlumni@4C17

  Feb 15, 2017 6:15 pm81 views

  CCCC 2017 CWS Alumni Sessions

• CWS Events Spring 2017

  Jan 30, 2017 2:30 pm73 views

  A summary of CWS events for this semester.

• Rhetorical Agency in Action: Notes on a Data Session

  Nov 17, 2016 10:00 am119 views

  Katherine Flowers shares her notes and thoughts on one of the data sessions that took place during the CWS Inaugural Symposium.

• CWS Inaugural Symposium Twitter Archive

  Nov 16, 2016 11:45 am34 views

  Logan Middleton's archive of Inaugural Symposium Tweets 

• Thoughts on the CWS Inaugural Symposium

  Nov 14, 2016 10:45 am35 views

  María Carvajal reflects on the CWS Inaugural Symposium

• Call For Bloggers: Write for Us!

  Oct 5, 2016 11:15 am533 views

  We want YOU to write for the Center for Writing Studies Blog!

  Build your online scholarly profile, work through ideas, start coversations, share the smart things that happen among CWS faculty and students. 

• CWS Fall 2016 Brownbag Series: David Cisneros

  Sep 28, 2016 1:00 pm28 views

  CWS held our first brownbag of the semester on Tuesday, 20th September, when David Cisneros (Assistant Professor of Communication and Latina/Latino Studies) presented "Coming out of the Shadows: Genre, Affect, Desire." 

• CCCC 2016 Audio Roundtable Discussion

  May 12, 2016 7:00 am115 views

  CWS graduate students Maria Carvajal, Bruce Kovanen, Evin Groundwater, and Logan Middleton sat down to reflect on their experiences at 4C16. 

• CWS Colloquium Series: Elizabeth Moje

  May 5, 2016 1:30 pm65 views

  This visual representation of two talks given by Elizabeth Moje is created by CWS Student Sarah Durst. 

• Reflections: 7th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch and Center for Writing Studies Graduate Student Symposium

  May 4, 2016 9:45 am180 views

  This blog post was written by CWS Student Katherine Flowers.

  It was my pleasure to attend the 7th annual Gesa Kirsch Graduate Symposium on April 21, 2016. This year’s symposium continued many of the traditions started in previous iterations, including graduate student panels, faculty panel chairs, an alumni keynote speaker, and a post-symposium happy hour. At the same time, everyone brought their unique perspectives, methods, data, and arguments to their presentations. In this recap blog post, I try to do their work justice.

• A Few Kirsch Symposium Photos

  Apr 27, 2016 11:30 am90 views

  Photos of panels and the keynote speaker, Kim Hensley Owens, from Friday's Symposium. 

• CWS Graduate Student Colloquium: Pamela Saunders and Katherine Flowers

  Apr 21, 2016 1:15 pm99 views

  Pamela Saunders and Katherine Flowers presented at this Spring's Graduate Student Colloquium on Thursday, April 14th. 

• The 7th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch and Center for Writing Studies Graduate Student Symposium

  Apr 18, 2016 12:30 pm28 views

  Please join us for the  The 7th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch and Center for Writing Studies

  Graduate Student Symposium

  Friday, April 22 Foreign Languages Building 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge) 

  8:30 am-9:00 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks by Spencer Schaffner

  9:00 am-10:15 am: Communities and Spaces for Literacy Education and Rhetorical Agency

  Kaia Simon: Fathers Teaching Daughters: Literacy that Changes Family Relationships

  Maggie Shelledy: “If It Hadn’t Been for Writing, I Think I Would Have Lost My Mind:” Resilience, Love, and Writing in Prison

   Evin Groundwater: The Hegemonic Maintenance of Gaming Rhetorics of Space as White, Masculine, and Male

  Chair: Lindsay Rose Russell

  10:30 am-11:30 am: Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations, Writing Centers, and Classrooms

  Maria Carvajal: Change within the System: Felipe Ortego y Gasca and the National Council of Teachers of English

  Logan Middleton: Writing Deafness: Negotiations of Composition, Signing, and Mediated Language

   Bruce Kovanen: Writing Centers and the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing

  Chair: J. David Cisneros

  11:45 am-1:15 pm: Lunch at Bevier Cafe

   

  1:30 pm-2:30 pm: Keynote by Kim Hensley Owens, Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University: In Lak’ech, The Chicano Clap, and Fear: A Partial Rhetorical Autopsy of Tucson’s Now-Illegal Ethnic Studies Class

  2:45 pm-4:00 pm: Public and Professional Writing

  Donovan Bisbee: The Viability of Precedent: Social Movement Discourse and Planned Parenthood v. Casey

  Annie Kelvie: Writing in the Religious Professions: A Case Study

  Katrina Kennett: Drawing into Relation: Teacher Planning Practices for Classroom Instruction

  Chair: Eric Darnell Pritchard

   

  4:15 pm-4:45 pm: Traversing Linguistic, Ideological, and National Boundaries

            Tom McNamara & Yu-Kyung Kang

            Chair: Kelly Ritter

   

  5:00 pm: Happy Hour at Murphy’s Pub – All Welcome!

  A very special thanks to:

  Spencer Schaffner

  Symposium Planning Committee: Maria Carvajal and Katherine Flowers

  Faculty Chairs: Lindsay Rose Russell, J. David Cisneros, Eric Darnell Pritchard, and Kelly Ritter

• CWS #4C16 Alumni Happy Hour

  Apr 13, 2016 12:30 pm80 views

  Photos from our Happy Hour meetup at Neil's Bahr in Houston, during CCCC 2016.

• CWS Spring Brownbag Series: Spencer Schaffner

  Apr 5, 2016 12:30 pm66 views

   Spencer Schaffner's Brownbag Talk, "Shame Parades," from Wednesday the 30th of March is reviewed by CWS graduate student Logan Middleton. 

• CWS Spring Brownbag Series: Mark Dressman

  Mar 14, 2016 11:45 am51 views

  Professor Mark Dressman (Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education) kicked off our Spring Brownbag Series with his talk “Words and Pictures: A Peircean/Saussurean Framework for Multimodal Analysis” on Wednesday March 9th. Read more about his talk here. 

• CWS@4C16

  Feb 27, 2016 3:30 am123 views

  The 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication is fast approaching, and we are so proud of the many scholars affiliated with the Center for Writing Studies who will be participating in workshops, roundtables, panels, and poster sessions. This year, the number of CWS faculty, graduate students, and alumni who will be presenting papers at 4Cs is so large that we cannot fit all of them in one blog post. Below is a list of those who will be presenting on Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9. For a list of presentations on Thursday, please see the blog post below. See you in Houston!

   

   

• CWS@4C16

  Feb 27, 2016 3:15 am119 views

  The 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication is fast approaching, and we are so proud of the many scholars affiliated with the Center for Writing Studies who will be participating in workshops, roundtables, panels, and poster sessions. This year, the number of CWS faculty, graduate students, and alumni who will be presenting papers at 4Cs is so large that we cannot fit all of them in one blog post. Below is a list of those who will be presenting on Thursday, April 7. For a list of presentations on Friday and Saturday, please see the blog post above. See you in Houston!