Graduate and undergraduate Rhetoric and Composition students, please share and/or consider registering for our Maymester special topics course #Public Rhetoric: Social Media and Activism. Email me if you have questions about the course aholmes@gsu.edu.

If you’re attending C’s in Portland, please consider adding one or more of the events below, which are sponsored by the CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series:

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On Wednesday at C’s, SWR will sponsor an all day workshop entitled, “Rhetorics and Realities: Exploring New Potentials for Scholarly Production to Transform the Meaning of Scholarship.” Among the participants are Jackie Rhodes and Jody Shipka. There will also be a presentation by Tamera Marko, Ryan Catalini, and Mario Ernesto Osorio from MobilityMovilidad.org on their use of video documentation to support their work for immigrant rights. (See http://swreditors.org/rhetoric-and-reality-workshop/ for full, and almost, final details.) Session Number, I think, B113.

On Thursday at C’s, SWR will sponsor “Cultivating Capacity for Authors, Creating Change in the Field,”  at4:45pm, which will feature Rhea Lathan (SWR Author) and Jay Jordan (SWR Author/Board Member), who will speak about working with the series. Then, Jaquetta Shade (Native American Caucus Member, MSU Graduate Student), who will speak about the “Book That Needs Published.” SWR Board members and authors will be there to talk about possible book projects with those in attendance at the end of the session. I think this Session Number is E145..

Finally, if you are interested in listening to SWR authors speak about their work, you can find out who will be at C’s by going to http://swreditors.org/swr-authors-at-cs-2017/​

Posted on behalf of Steve Parks, Editor of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

If you plan to be at the Conference on College Composition & Communication in Portland this March, we hope you will join us for a social hosted by the Rhetoric & Composition Program at Georgia State University. Please click the invitation above for more details and to RSVP. We need to give our venue a head count, so please RSVP as soon as possible. We hope to see you at Punchbowl Social in Portland!

And, yes, there will be bowling.

Punchbowl Social, Portland, OR

Please consider submitting or share with folks who may be interested in the Symposium for Part-time, Adjunct, and Contingent Educators (SPACE) conference, hosted by KSU’s Center for Teaching and Learning. SPACE is an opportunity for PT, adjunct, and contingent educators from the region and beyond to present their original scholarship. It is also an opportunity to connect with and share innovative teaching practices with colleagues.

This year, SPACE is scheduled for June 10, 2017, at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia in the Perimeter area. Proposals are due February 7th online.

http://www.spaceducators.com/

Please share with folks who may be interested! Submit an application by Feb. 15th to be considered for Fall 2017 admission.

The Georgia State University Department of English’s Rhetoric & Composition faculty invite applicants for our M.A. and Ph.D. programs for Fall 2017 admittance. You can learn more about our curriculum that encourages study in history and theory, as well as contemporary approaches to writing in both academic and non-academic settings, at our website: http://sites.gsu.edu/rhetcomp/.

We’ve graduated hundreds of M.A. and Ph.D. students over the past 20 years who consistently find work in academia, professional/technical writing, and academic administration; all of our recent graduates have found full-time employment. Some students in our M.A. program apply to continue their Ph.D. studies in our program.

Our faculty includes Beth Burmester, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Baotong Gu, Michael Harker, Mary Hocks, Ashley Holmes, Elizabeth Lopez, Ben Miller, George Pullman, Malinda Snow, and Robin Wharton. Our eleven faculty members with broad research and teaching specializations make our program one of the largest Rhetoric & Composition programs in the Southeast. Every member of our faculty is recognized for scholarship, teaching excellence, and national service.

Graduate students who have a familiarity with history of rhetoric are invited to contact Dr. Lynee Gaillet (lgaillet@gsu.edu) regarding a paid opportunity to put together an index for an academic book.

Congratulations to current GSU Rhetoric and Composition PhD student Helen Cauley who has been named the 2016 recipient of the Beacon Society Award, an annual prize that goes to “an individual, society or organization that has made a significant contribution to exposing young people to the study of Sherlock Holmes stories.” The award is presented by the Beacon Society, an international organization and subset of the Baker Street Irregulars, the “enthusiasts” group founded in 1934 with chapters around the world. Its mission is to “serve as a link to other scion societies, providing teachers with local resources to bring the magic of Sherlock Holmes to life in the classroom.” Helen will be traveling to New York in January to accept the award during the Society’s meeting.

Helen is currently working on her dissertation research related to the study of Sherlock Holmes and his works. Congrats, Helen!