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  • CWS Inaugural Symposium Twitter Archive

    Logan Middleton's archive of Inaugural Symposium Tweets 

  • Liv Davila on Data as Text

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

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

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

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

    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 Fall 2016 Brownbag Series: David Cisneros

    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." 

  • Fall 2019: Welcome Back!

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

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

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

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

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

  • Deborah Brandt's Visit Postponed

    Due to today's storm, Prof. Brandt will not able to travel here in time for her Colloquium Talk tomorrow. We have decided to reschedule her visit. All of the events on her itinerary for tomorrow are cancelled. Thank you again for your support of her visit, and we look forward to hosting her sometime in the future. 

  • CWS Fall 2020: A Semester Overview

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

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

    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 Fall 2020 Welcome Back Event

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

  • Writing Across Media

    We have four sections of our Writing Across Media class going strong this semester. Learn more about this innovative undergratuate class at cws.illinois.edu/wam. The course fulfills the University's Advanced Composition requirement, along with over 100 other classes on campus. 

     

  • Upcoming Talks and Events on Campus



    Upcoming talks and events on campus include: 

    Lunch-time talk by Dr. Carolyn Wisniewski, Director of the U of I Writers Workshop.  The talk is about a study about the development of teaching knowledge and practice among twelve novice graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) of college composition. [Wed Nov. 18th @ Noon -> English Building 107A]

    Talk by Tom McNamara titled “'Burning Dollars': Chinese Undergraduates and Investment in the US Writing Classroom" [Thurs Nov. 19h @ 4pm -> GSLIS 126]

     

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

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

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

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