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Welcome Back Party for Rhet/Comp Graduate Students & Faculty

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While you’re enjoying these final weeks of summer before the start of the semester, take a few minutes to mark your calendar for the welcome back party for Rhetoric and Composition graduate students and faculty.

Sunday, August 28th, 4:00 PM at Dr. Pullman’s home

Note: Please RSVP to gpullman@gsu.edu, at which time you will receive location details.

Some drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be provided; feel free to bring something of your own if you’d like.

We’ll hope to see you there! Please spread the word to other Rhet/Comp grad students you know in the program.

Senior Seminar Spotlight: Undergrad Rhet/Comp @ GSU

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Check out the compelling work recent B.A. Rhetoric and Composition graduates Danielle Reed and Jessica Guda completed for Dr. Robin Wharton’s Senior Seminar in Spring 2016. You can explore Danielle and Jessica’s project about collaborative online narrative at https://kittisparks.com/, and view the video reflection below:

On behalf of the Rhetoric and Composition faculty at GSU, congratulations to Danielle, Jessica, and all of our spring graduates!

GSU @ RSA: This Week!

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The Rhetoric Society of America‘s conference will be held this Thursday, May 26th through Sunday, May 29th at the Hilton in downtown Atlanta. We have a great representation of current GSU Rhetoric & Composition students and faculty, as well as a number of our alums! The conference program is challenging to search by institution type, so if I’ve missed your presentation, please send me an email (aholmes@gsu.edu) with your name, presentation title, and day/time, and I’ll add you to our list. We’ll have a number of our GSU Communications Department colleagues there, too, though the list below is for Rhet/Comp in English. Hope to see you at RSA!

Thursday, May 26

  • 12:00 PM  – 6:00 PM, Preconference Career Retreat for Associate Professors, Dr. Lynee Gaillet, English, Georgia State University

Friday, May 27

  • 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “WeChat as Activist Agent: Rhetoric and Change in Transnational Publics,” Dr. Baotong Gu, English, Georgia State University, and Xiaobo Wang, Georgia State University
  • 3:30 PM  – 4:45 PM, “Fortuitous Happenstance”: Serendipity in Archival Research,” Dr. Lynee Gaillet, English, Georgia State University
  • 3:30 PM  – 4:45 PM, “Finding the Ideal (Woman) Orator: Changing the Idea and the Gender of Cicero’s and Quintilian’s Ideal Orator, with Revisionist Rhetoric and Feminist Historiography,” Dr. Beth Burmester, English, Georgia State University

Saturday, May 28

  • 11:00 AM  – 12:15 PM, “Death, Suffering, and Power: Persuasions of Marcus Aurelius and the 14th Dalai Lama,” Kristen Ruccio, English, Georgia State University
  • 3:30 PM  – 4:45 PM, “Ideology and History in Institutional Mission Statements: Supporting Contemporary Public Works of Rhetoric,” Dr. Ashley J. Holmes, English, Georgia State University

Sunday, May 29

  • 9:30 AM  – 10:45 AM, “Institutional Success and Writing Centers: Reverting Back to Remediation,” Cristine Busser, English, Georgia State University
  • 9:30 AM  – 10:45 AM, “Across Diverse Crisis Arenas: (Con) text Approach to Understanding Corporate Crisis and Communication in Intercultural Contexts,” Lin Dong, English, Georgia State University
  • 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, “Pricking Their Conscience: Quilts in Support of Abolition,” Dr. Marcia Bost, English, Shorter University (GSU alum)
  • 12:30 PM  – 1:45 PM, “Ableist Rhetoric in Foundational Works of Rhetoric and Composition,” Kristen Ruccio, English, Georgia State University
  • 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Transformative Language and Rhetoric: The Press and the Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. Lara Smith-Sitton, English, Kennesaw State University (GSU alum)
  • 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Tracing Critical Pedagogy’s Rhetoric of Change: Paulo Freire, Myles Horton, and Stetson Kennedy as Brothers in the Struggle,” Dr. Helen Diana Eidson, English, Auburn University (GSU alum)
  • 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Teaching Ethnography as a Means for Change and Action,” Lindsey Spring, Georgia State University 
  • 2:00 PM  – 3:15 PM, “Speaking/Writing from the Margins: Ethos and the Civil Rights Movement,” Dr. Letizia Guglielmo, English, Kennesaw State University (GSU alum) 

Congratulations to Dr. Francis & Dr. Robin!

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On behalf of the Rhetoric and Composition faculty, I would like to congratulate our two Ph.D. students graduating today: Dr. Ann Marie Francis and Dr. Valerie Robin!

Dr. Francis recently defended her dissertation, “Composition Assignments with Workplace Relevance: An Examination of Technical Communication Coursework and the Reading and Writing Demands of Professional Engineers,” and worked with Dr. Lynee Gaillet (chair) and Drs. Ashley Holmes and George Pullman (readers).

Dr. Robin recently defended her dissertation, “The Value of Scholarly Writing: A Temporal-Material Rhetorical Analysis of Delivery in Google Documents,” and worked with Dr. Mary Hocks (chair) and Drs. Michael Harker and Ashley Holmes (readers).

Congratulations to our graduates!

Call for Co-President of RSAatGSU: Responses Due Wed., Apr. 27th

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If you are interested in being co-president of RSAatGSU, please send Matt Klingbeil (mklingbeil1@mygsu.onmicrosoft.com) a couple of lines as to why you want the position, your vision for RSAatGSU, and some ideas that you may have for the position and organization. 

To be a candidate, respond to this email by Wednesday, April 27. 

Once we have this, we will open an online voting process.  The candidate must be a member of the GSU English department, but the entire organization votes.

2017 Cs Proposals Due May 9th & GSU @ Cs 2016 Social

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Thanks to all who were able to join us for the GSU @ CCCCs social earlier this month. It was so wonderful to have a large number of current and former students and faculty come together to socialize and celebrate! We look forward to hosting another social at CCCCs 2017 in Portland next March.

Proposals for CCCCs 2017 are due May 9, 2016. See the CFP for Cultivating Capacity, Creating Change.

Join us for happy hour at the CCCCs!

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From our estimates, the last presentation by a current GSU student or faculty member ends Friday afternoon, so let’s celebrate our program’s accomplishments and share our conference experiences.

cheers

Who: Georgia State University Rhetoric and Composition faculty, graduate students, alumni, and friends (non-GSU friends are welcome to join, too)

When: Friday, April 8th from 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Where: The bar & patio at The Grove, which is across the street from the conference hotel, in a park/green space called Discovery Green.  Check out their happy hour menu (from 4-7), location info, and map.

We hope to see you there! Please share with GSU students and alumni.

Maymester Course: The Teaching Life in Fact and Fiction, Dr. Burmester

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Please see the attached flyer for the MAYMESTER 2016 course English 8900: The Teaching Life in Fact and Fiction, taught by Dr. Beth Burmester from 1:45 to 4:00pm (CRN 54120).

This class is designed for all the concentrations in English (Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Composition) and for students in the TEEMS program. The focus will be on investigating the representations and identity of secondary and post-secondary teachers through genres including scholarly writing, memoir, and fiction, and through filters of gender, race, sexuality, class and cultural studies.

The aims are to provide students inquiry and meta-reflection into what it means to teach, to be a teacher, and to create a teaching persona and philosophy. We will explore pedagogies (queer, feminist, student-centered, and others), as well as the scholarship of learning, teacher ethnography, memoir-writing, the extracurricular aspects of a teaching life, including tutoring, off-campus, and teachers as practicing writers.

Assignments may include: short reading responses, in-class writing exercises, written observations of fictional teachers, a book review; memoir essay.

GSU @ CCCCs

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We’ll have a strong contingent of faculty and graduate students at this year’s ATTW and CCCCs conferences in Houston, TX. See below for a listing of who is presenting at what times, and search the CCCCs online program for location info. If we missed your presentation or printed an error, please email Ashley Holmes (aholmes@gsu.edu) and we’ll add you to the list or make updates.

Wed., April 6th (ATTW & RNF)

Jennifer Carter is presenting “On the Local Level: Rethinking Grammar and the Role of Editing in Writing Centers” at the Research Network Forum.

Kristeen Cherney is presenting “Literacy Impacts of AR on Students with Autism and the Challenges Faced in First-Year Composition” at the Research Network Forum.

Ann Marie Francis is presenting “Relating Service-eLearning to Course Objectives for Increased Student Motivation in Online Technical Writing Classes” at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATW) Conference.

Yunye Yu is presenting “Designs of Blocking Features of Weibo and Twitter: Protection of Privacy or Abuse of Power?” at ATTW.

Xiaobo (Belle) Wang is presenting “Advocacy of World Citizenship––Building the Babel of Transnational Literacies” at ATTW.

Thurs., April 7th (CCCC)

Ann Marie Francis is presenting her digital pedagogy poster “Improving Online Writing Conferences with Multimodal Technology.”

Roger Austin is presenting “Taking Action through the Archives: Standardizing Writing Center Archive Profiles for Praxis, Knowledge, and Continuity” from 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM.

Dr. Beth Burmester is presenting”Changing Perceptions of Writing: Take Action with Innovative Program Design in the Writing Major to Influence Public Policy Outside the Classroom” from 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM.

Lin Dong is presenting “The Ignored and the Marginalized Ones: ‘Digital Divide’ of Literacy Practices and the Assessment for Older Adults” from 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM.

Xiaobo Wang is presenting “Convergence and Situatedness of Free Speech: WeChat as Site of Activism” from 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM.

Cristine Busser is presenting “Writing to Persist? Retention Research and Redefining Student Success” from 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM.

Dr. Ashley Holmes is presenting “Narratives of Retention and the Use of Big Data: How Institutional Discourses Impact Writing Programs” from 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM.

Jennifer Carter is chairing the panel “Preparing Teachers of College Writing: A Report on the New 4Cs Position Statement and Suggestions for Putting It Into Action” from 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM.

Kristen Ruccio is presenting “Taking Action about Ableist Language in Composition Studies” from 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM.

Fri., April 8th (CCCC)

Nathan Wagner is presenting “The Academic Essay Is Dead (and It Needs to Stay Buried)” from 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM.

Danielle Slaughter is presenting “How Composition Classrooms Can Use Student-Led and Black Feminist Pedagogy for a New Generation of Activists in a Global and Multicultural Context” from 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM.

Dr. Elizabeth Lopez is chairing the panel “Articulation and Transfer from High School through College” from 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM.

Dr. Michael Harker is presenting “Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: Listening for the Resurgence of Expressivism and the New Action(s) of Literacy” from 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM.

Matthew Sansbury is presenting “Taking Action by Transferring Literacy across Multimodal Contexts: Visual Languages That Interface Many Kinds of Discourses” from 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM.

Dr. Baotong Gu is presenting “East Meets West on Flat Design: The Convergence and Divergence of Chinese and American Rhetorical Principles” from 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM.

Meng Yu is presenting “East Meets West on Flat Design: The Convergence and Divergence of Chinese and American Rhetorical Principles” from 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM.

Xiaobo Wang is chairing the panel “Digital Technologies as Agents for Change” from 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM.

Dr. Baotong Gu is presenting “Situated Free Speech and Democracy: Design of WeChat and Activism” from 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM.

Xiaobo Wang is presenting “Situated Free Speech and Democracy: Design of WeChat and Activism” from 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM.

Dr. George Pullman is presenting “Cross-Cultural Rhetoric: The Myth of East and West” from 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM.

Dr. Elizabeth Lopez is presenting “Rhetorical Curriculum Design : A Case Study in Action-Oriented Undergraduate Program Revision with Assessment for Critical Thinking” from 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.

Valerie Robin is presenting “Innovation and the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives: An Exploration and Implementation of Innovation in Rhetoric and Composition” from 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.

Kateland Wolfe is presenting “The Embodied and Embedded Practices of Embodiment: A ‘Distant Reading’ of Embodiment Scholarship” from 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.

Rhet/Comp Graduate Students in the Spotlight

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Our graduate students have been busy presenting at conferences, publishing their work, and being elected to committees for national professional organizations. Here’s a list of announcements for recent and upcoming accomplishments. Please see a separate post about upcoming presentations at ATTW, CCCC, and RSA. Congrats to all!

Publications

Cristine Busser has had the chapter “Beyond Coordination: Building Collaborative Partnerships to Support Institutional-Level Retention Initiatives in Writing Programs,” co-authored with Dr. Ashley Holmes, accepted for publication in the forthcoming edited collection Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs, to be published with Utah State University Press. Cristine’s review of Pegeen Reichert Powell’s Retention and Resistance has also been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in the Journal of Teaching Writing.

Jennifer Carter published “Literacy, Biology, and Salamanders” in February 2016 on the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives’ Blog.

Charles Grimm published “Writing as Process: Synchronous and Asynchronous Feedback in Remote Tutoring” in October 2015 to the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative.

Samantha Jakobeit has had a chapter accepted for publication in the forthcoming anthology Comics and Graphic Novels as Cultural Artifacts: Teaching Ethnographic and Archival Research in the Composition Classroom.

Matthew Sansbury’s review piece of a 2015 CCCC panel was published in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Xiaobo (Belle) Wang published “The communication design of WeChat: ideological as well as technical aspects of social media,” co-authored with Dr. Baotong Gu,  in the November 2015 issue of Communication Design Quarterly Review.

Conferences

Roger Austin presented “Turning toward Each Other: Cultivating Inclusivity among Staff and the Community” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Paige Arrington presented “Tutoring toward Each Other: Cultivating Inclusivity among Staff and the Community” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Cristine Busser presented “Turning toward Each Other: Cultivating Inclusivity among Staff and the Community” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Jennie Carter presented “Prison Outreach Programs: An Inclusivity of All Students”; “Grappling with Grammar: Achieving Inclusivity through Grammatical Discourse in the Writing Center” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Kristeen Cherney presented “Inclusion for the Isolated: Writing Tutoring Strategies for Students with ASD” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Kelly Elmore presented “Habits of Mind in the Writing Center: The Inclusion of Uncertainty” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Charles Grimm presented “Grappling with Grammar: Achieving Inclusivity through Grammatical Discourse in the Writing Center” and “Can the Writing Studio Include the Private Tutor?” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Samantha Jakobeit will be presenting “English in the Margins: Cajun Literacy in Bec Doux et ses amis” at the Comic Arts Conference in the San Diego Comic Con.

Emily Kimbell presented “Online Writing Centers: An Analysis of the Write/Chat Interface and its Pedagogical Implementation”at the 2016 New Voices Conference at GSU.

Kristen Ruccio presented “Seamless Inclusivity: Imagining Designs for Inclusive Writing Centers” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Xiaobo (Belle) Wang presented “Building the Babel of Transnational Literacy: A Tutoring Model” at the Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference in Columbus, GA.

Kateland Wolfe co-chaired the 2016 New Voices Conference.

National Service

Kristen Ruccio has been elected to the Council of Writing Program Administrators’-Graduate Organization (WPA-GO) Graduate Committee.

 

*Please email a R/C faculty member to keep us apprised of your accomplishments for future announcements.*