We hope you’ll be able to join us for the Rhet/Comp Graduate Student Get-Together this Sunday, March 1st, from 3-5 at Twain’s. Our topic for socializing and professional development is “It’s Just a Dissertation.” Find out more details here. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Congrats on these recent publications from GSU Rhetoric and Composition faculty and graduate students!

• Dr. Harker’s article, co-authored with Kathryn B. Comer, appears in the March 2015 issue of Computers and Composition: “The Pedagogy of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives: A Survey.”
• Dr. Gaillet’s book Contingent Faculty Publishing in Community, co-edited with GSU alum Letizia Guglielmo, was published by Palgrave in December.
• Thomas Breideband’s article “Social Ruptures and Osculative Interpellation: Approaching the Twitterverse Through the Prism of Laclau and Althusser” appears in volume 4 of Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society.

Did I miss your recent publication? Send me an email (aholmes@gsu.edu) so we can celebrate your accomplishments, too.

Posted on behalf of Dr. Harker:

I’m writing to you on behalf of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) team to request your help in staffing the DALN booth at the upcoming CCCC conference in Tampa! Since beginning work alongside Ben McCorkle as a co-director of the DALN, we have heard so much about each of you from Cindy. We know the continued growth and value of the DALN in our profession is a reflection of your generous help and support over the years.  A million thanks, in advance, for your generous time, collaboration, and willingness to consider this request!

As you know, the narratives we help people contribute at this booth will go into the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives <http://daln.osu.edu/> where they will be preserved and made available to the public and to the profession. CCCC has reserved a table/booth for us in a high-traffic area at the conference, and we need your help in staffing the table/booth.  
We hope to have at least 4 staff members during each session listed below so that we’ll have plenty of person power to encourage people to sit down and tell their literacy story (and they need lots of encouragement!), people to help contributors complete the required paperwork, and people to make sure the narratives are properly labeled and saved on our computers.  We also need help in setting up the booth in the mornings and breaking it down in the evenings.

Some of you are newer than others to this project, so if you volunteer, you’ll receive an email from me with several handouts that you can use to get familiar with our effort and inform yourself about the work you’re about to do. Ben McCorkle and Cindy Selfe have promised to be on hand for some sessions, so you’ll never be without help!

So, please let me know (via email to mwharker@gmail.com) if you can sign up for any of the sessions below.  I know that some of you may have to arrive or leave 10-15 minutes early or late if you have a conference session to attend–that’s fine as long as someone stays at the booth (to guard the paperwork and computers) until the next shift arrives.  Once I have your requests, I’ll make up a final schedule and send it to everyone, so you know who you’ll be serving with! 

Thursday, March 19:

10-noon (set up):

noon-1:45:

1:45-3:15:

3:15-4:45:

4:45-6:00 (break down):

Friday, March 20:

8:45-10:45 (set up):

10:45-12:30:

12:30-1:45:

1:45-3:15:

3:15-4:45:

4:45-6:00 (break down):

Saturday, March 21:

9:45-11:00 (set up):

11:00-12:30

12:30-1:45 (break down):

We look forward to seeing each of you at CCCC in Tampa!

 Best wishes,

 –Michael, on behalf of the DALN Team

The Emory Writing Program is hosting Cheryl Ball for a series of talks and workshops on Feb. 5th and 6th on topics such as Building a Digital Portfolio, Digital Humanities and Computers & Comp, and Multimodal Assessment. Some of the talks are open to the public (I specifically inquired about the Building a Digital Portfolio and it’s open, too) but some require registration. Check their website for more information and to register: http://writingprogram.emory.edu/writing-program/information/news.html.

Welcome back Rhet/Comp-ers. I’ve been collecting a series of announcements that I thought I’d send out all at once. There are lots of exciting opportunities on the horizon.

First, congratulations to Dr. Harker! His book The Lure of Literacy: A Critical Reception of the Compulsory Composition Debate is hot off the SUNY presses: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5989-the-lure-of-literacy.aspx.

• WPA-GO CCCC Graduate Student Travel Award – If you’re presenting at CCCCs, RNF, ATTW, or the IWCA Collaborative in Tampa, consider applying for this travel award. Due Feb. 6th, requires WPA membership by Jan. 30th. Read more details here: http://wpacouncil.org/node/6395.
• Conference on Community Writing deadline for proposals is Feb. 2nd for the conference in Boulder, CO in October: http://www.communitywriting.org/cfp/.
• Feminisms & Rhetorics Conference deadline for proposals is Feb. 1st for the conference in Phoenix, AZ in October: http://english.clas.asu.edu/files/CFPFeminismsandRhetorics2015-WEB-march2014.pdf.
• Playtest Gaming Discussion @ GSU: The Creative Media Industries Institute and New and Emerging Media Initiative at Georgia State University are proud to announce that we will be starting a weekly game discussion session entitled “Playtest.” Playtest is an hour-long meet-up for gathering and exploring the small parts of things we love about games and also giving people the ability to experience them by playing the games in a comfortable and critical setting. Starting Friday, January 23, 2015, we will hold weekly meetings from 2:30 to 3:30 PM on the 9th floor of 25 Park Place. We invite all students, staff, faculty, game developers, and game critics to join us for these sessions. For more information: http://playtest.gsu.edu/.
• New Issue of Peitho: Check-out the new issue on “The Critical Place of the Networked Archive,” which also features an article by a recent GSU Rhet/Comp alum Oriana Gatta. http://peitho.cwshrc.org/.
• New Issue of Kairos: There’s also a new issue of Kairos out with some great content: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/.

Hi, all: I just came across the CFP for the Literacies for All Summer Institute, hosted by the Whole Language Umbrella (WLU), which is a subsidiary of NCTE. The conference will be held at the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Decatur, July 9-11, 2015. You can read more about the Institute here; proposals are due by Jan. 31, 2015.

See the linked flyer for more information on English 8171, offered Spring 2015. Register now!

Explore the historical basis of HBO’s Rome and the Hollywood Blockbuster Gladiator: the power, politics, poetry, and persuasion of the Hellenistic Age, the Republic of Rome and the Roman Empire. We will read texts by Cicero, Hortensia, Quintilian, Marcus Aurelius, Tacitus, Horace, Longinus, and Augustine, among others, creating a theory and practice for rhetorics and poetics in this classical period, as well as studying its global impact, and its legacy on us and popular culture. In addition to studying how rhetoric was practiced, we will also study how it was taught, and how rhetorical theories have shaped politics, gender, literature, history-writing, and education. Students wanting more background for teaching world literature, background on classical origins of literary and nonfiction genres (autobiography, dialogue, literary criticism), and poets and fiction writers interested in classical theories of composing, will find this course of high interest, in addition to students in Rhetoric and Composition. Our semester-long inquiry will be involve the idea of the “Ideal Orator,” and to what extent historic figures have embodied Cicero’s ideal for statesmen, speakers, politicians, writers, poets, and world leaders. We will also be concerned with legacies of teaching writing. Assignments will include: a scholarly book review, rhetorical précis writing and response papers, and a conference-length paper and oral presentation. Classes will include: film clips, presentations, discussion, and some lecture; this course will use elements of hybrid pedagogy with some online writing, and independent scholarly research.

If you’re interested in the following events or publication opportunities, mark your calendars for the upcoming deadlines.

Upcoming Conference CFP Deadlines:

• Computers & Writing: Proposals Due Oct. 31, 2014, Conference May 28-31, 2015 (U of Wisconsin-Stout)
• Conference on Community Writing: Proposals Due Dec. 5, 2014, Conference Oct. 16-17, 2015 (Boulder, CO) This conference will also provide a publication opportunity; articles will be invited from conference presenters for two journal special issues, both intended for publication in fall 2016.
• Feminisms & Rhetorics: Proposals Due Feb. 1, 2015, Conference Oct. 28-31, 2015 (Phoenix, AZ)

Upcoming Publication CFP Deadline:

There are lots of publication opportunities out there, but I wanted to direct your attention to a new online, peer-reviewed journal, Ubiquity, housed at GSU that has upcoming submission deadlines. In particular, you might check out the range of formats/genres in which you can publish for this journal (e.g., reflexive journals/letters about your teaching, innovative lesson plans, opinion pieces, personal essays, community-based fact sheets, and many more). Given many students’ interests around multimedia writing, I’m hoping some of you will consider submitting for the upcoming special issue (deadline Dec. 1st for Spring 2015 publication); see CFP below.

Spring 2015 Issue Theme: Multimedia Writing in the Classroom and Beyond 

• Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014.

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Posted on behalf of Diana Eidson:

Auburn University

Department of English, 9030 Haley Center, Auburn University, AL 36849-5203

Assistant Professor

http://www.auburn.edu/english

The Department of English at Auburn University invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in rhetoric and composition to begin Fall 2015. The teaching load is 2-2, with assignments in upper-division and graduate rhetoric and/or composition courses as well as teaching in the first-year composition component of Auburn’s core curriculum.  Individuals joining our faculty will be working with us to focus and invigorate our first-year writing program and enrich our graduate concentration in rhetoric and composition as well as our undergraduate majors.

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Please join us for the first 3rd Thursday Talks meeting, which will be held tomorrow (Thurs., Sept. 18th) in the new Troy Moore Library (25PP, Room 2343) at 4:00 PM. We’ll be discussing ways to get involved professionally on campus and in regional or national organizations (and beyond). Come with ideas to share and/or be ready to gather ideas and get involved. Hope to see you there!

Also, Belle Wang asked me to share the following information from today’s GSU RSA meeting. Email Belle with questions (bwang8@gsu.edu).

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