Big Rhetorics Big Literacies: The Discourses of Power

Arizona State University Memorial Union
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Friday, Oct. 22

9:00-10:15 Alumni Lounge (MU 202)
General Welcome: Neal Lester, Chair, Department of English, Arizona State University
Announcements: Peter Goggin, Arizona State University
Introduction, Keynote Speaker: Maureen Mathison, University of Utah

Keynote Address: Lessons from the History of Literacy: Legacies for the Future
Harvey J. Graff, Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies & Professor of English and History, Ohio State University

Session 1 10:30-noon

1a. Technological Literacy: Identity and Institution Alumni Lounge (MU 202)
Micheal Sean Bolton (Arizona State University) Texting the Body: The Problem of Identity in Cyberspace
Bill Endres (Arizona State University) Not Paying Attention to Technology and Literacy: The Institutional Privileges and Power of Specialization in English Departments
Chair: Thomas Skeen (Arizona State University)

1b. Panel: Discourses of Power in the Corporate University (Chrysocolla MU 206)
Eric Gould (University of Denver) Knowledge, Power, and Rhetoric
Linda Bensel-Meyers (University of Denver) The Rhetoric of the NCAA and Corporate Erosion of Higher Education
Ann Dobyns (University of Denver) Writing's Cultural Capital in the Corporate University
Chair: Leah Pate (Arizona State University)

1c. Rhetorics of Ethics and Social Justice (Yavapai MU 209)
Marlia Banning (Kent State University) Local Empathy, Global Justice: The Politics of Resentment
Jim Bowman (University of Arizona) Searching for a Few Good Listeners: Rhetorical Dimensions of Listening in Civic Discourse and Social Action
Barry Thatcher (New Mexico State University) Rhetorical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Chair: Fredel M. Wiant (University of San Francisco)

1d. Three Discourses on Power: Institutional, Affective, and Vital (Yuma MU 211)
Thomas Rickert (Purdue University) “Push th' Little Daisies': Some Thoughts on Marc Bousquet, WPAs, and Power
David Rieder (North Carolina State University) Freire, Sandoval, and Barthes: Love in a Postmodern World
Byron Hawk (George Mason University) Motive as Power from Aristotle to Burke
Chair: Lauren Yena (Arizona State University)

1e. Panel: Genres of Academic Literacy (Santa Cruz MU 213)
Irene L. Clark (California State University, Northridge) So What? When Graduate Students Write Thesis Proposals
Regina Clemens Fox (Arizona State University) Digital Literacy Capital in the Composition Classroom
Chair: Lynette Austin (Arizona State University)

1f. Literacy in Zones of Danger and Hope (Pinal MU 215)
John Duffy (University of Notre Dame) Letters from the Fair City: A Rhetorical Conception of Literacy
Jonelle Moore (Mesa Community College) Internet Mediated Discourses of Power: Domestic Violence Victims Speak
Sally E. Said (University of the Incarnate Word) Embodying Theory: Literacy in War-Torn Sudan
Chair: Debra White-Stanley (University of Arizona)

Lunch Break  noon-1:30

Session 2 1:30-3:00

2a. Food for Thought: Discourses, Diaspora, and Diet (Alumni Lounge MU 202)
Heather M. Hoyt (Arizona State University) Food Literacies in the Diaspora of Arab Women
Patricia Malesh (University of Arizona) Rhetorics of Consumption: Vegetarianism as a Social Movement
Chair: Elizabeth McNeil (Arizona State University)

2b. Panel: Pedagogy and Writing Assessment in California Universities: The Social Construction of a Great Divide (Chrysocolla MU 206)
Holly Bauer (University of California, San Diego) Institutionalizing “Good English”: Grammar Ideals, School Writing, and the University of California's Examination in Subject A
Carrie Wastal (University of California, San Diego) The Demise of the University of California's Master Plan: Implications for Assessment, Admissions, and Academic Needs
Ellen Quandahl (San Diego State University) On the Separation of Assessment from Pedagogy: The Rhetoric of Competence at San Diego State University
Chair: Linda Brodkey

2c. Panel: The Power of Normal: Interrogating the Rhetorical Strategies of Whiteness in Mass Media (Yavapai MU 209)
Sara McKinnon (Arizona State University) Where Do We Belong: A Rhetorical Examination of Labels for Arab Americans
Ray Schuck (Arizona State University) Harry Potter and the Anti-Racist-White-Hero Premise: Whiteness and the Harry Potter Series
Jason Zingsheim (Arizona State University) Raceless in Seattle: A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of Frasier
Chair: Nick White (University of Arizona)

2d. Panel: Drawing Back the Curtain of the Fantastic: Rhetorics of Marginalization in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Yuma MU 211)
Matt Hinojosa (University of Arizona) Marginalizing Identity
Holly Mandes (University of Arizona) Reading "Madness"
Georgianna O. Miller (University of Arizona) Transformation as Violence
Chair: Stephanie Vie (University of Arizona)

2e. Panel: Big Rhetorics, Small Literacies: Considering Alternative Discourses (Santa Cruz MU 213)
Catherine McDonald (Western Washington University) “But I Don't Want to Think Like You”; Students Who Resist the Academic Project
Meredith J. Lee (University of Washington) Reading Alternative Literacies, Learning Cultural Contexts
Sonia Apgar Begert (Olympic College) English Lit, Alt/Dis, an' All Dat
Chair: Philip Bernick (Arizona State University)

2f. Power, Cyberliteracy, and Sociopolitical Forces in ESL (Pinal MU 215)
Stella K. Hadjistassou (Arizona State University) Second Language Literacy, Technology, and the Sociopolitical Forces Influencing their Development
Mei-ching Ho (Arizona State University) Cyber Literacy in ESL: Reexamining hypertexts in language learning websites
Amy D. R. Shinabarger (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras) In search of balance: A critical discourse analysis of power and accommodation in the university ESL writing classroom
Chair: Fify Juliana (Arizona State University)

Session 3   3:15-4:45

3a. Panel: Walking the Tightrope: Discourse Conventions vs “Students' Right to their Own Language” in the Composition Classroom (Alumni Lounge MU 202)
Rose Meitzen (Western Washington University) The Politics of Error: Dialect, Error, and Nonstandard English in Student work
Jessica Van Horn (Western Washington University) Addressing the Phantom in the Room: Audience Awareness in Student Composition
Kate Beles (Western Washington University) Writing to Power: Academic Genres and the Negotiation Between Assimilation and Critique
Chair: Becky Cross (University of Texas San Antonio)

3b. Law and Language (Yavapai MU 209)
Richard Boyd (San Diego State University) The Rhetoric of “Just Deserts:” The Subterranean Appearances of the Past in Criminal Trials
Lela Hunt (University of New Mexico) A Theory of Legal Communication
Chair: Kirsten Davis (Arizona State University)

3c. Modalities and Technologies of Media Literacy (Yuma MU 211)
Dayna Ottens (Texas A&M, Corpus Christi) Compiling CompPile: An Activity Theory Analysis
Jennifer Sheppard (New Mexico State University) Evolving Media, Evolving Literacies: Recommended Practices for Developing Multimodal Communication
Paul Walker (Northern Arizona University) Power over the Individual through History and Technology
Chair: Vernon Dickson (Arizona State University East)

3d. Pedagogical (Re)Considerations (Santa Cruz MU 213)
Rita C. Al-Abdullah (Arizona State University) Genre and New Media Literacy
Steven J. Corbett (University of Washington) If You Want to Accommodate Me— Novel Me: The Pedagogical Potential of Bakhtin's Dialogism and Laughter
Michael Stancliff (Arizona State University West) Big (Rhetorical) Hopes: A Friendly Critique of Cultural Studies Pedagogies
Chair: Patricia Webb (Arizona State University)

3e. The Truth is Out There: Conspiracy, Tricksters, and Popular Culture (Pinal MU 215)
Kirk Branch (Montana State University) Trickster Makes this Classroom: Pedagogic Rhetoric and the Aporia of Reproduction
Sharon Crowley (Arizona State University) They're Out to Get Us: Conspiracy Rhetoric and the Liberal Notion of Agency
Michael Perry (Arizona State University) Valuing Popular Connections and Context: Towards a Critical-Popular Cultural Literacy
Chair: Jim Blasingame (Arizona State University)

Saturday, Oct. 23

Session 4   9:00-10:30

4a. Roundtable: Paradigms/Ideologies (Re)Imagined: Feminist Mediations on Power in the Composition Classroom (Alumni Lounge MU 202)
Jennifer Clary-Lemon (Arizona State University) (Roundtable Chair) Re Imagining Location: Graduate Academic Literacies and the Feminist Classroom
Kirsti Cole (Arizona State University) Revisiting the Sad Woman in the Basement: The Female Graduate Student Teacher and the First-year Composition Classroom
Zachary Waggoner (Arizona State University) (Re)Turning the Gaze: Locating the Body in Feminism and Composition

4b. Panel: Powerful Discourses on Writing Instruction in the University (Yavapai MU 209)
Douglas Downs (University of Utah) Powerful Discourses in the Teaching of First-Year Writing
Rebecca DaPra (University of Utah) Seeking and Developing Empowerment in the College of Engineering
Laura Card (University of Utah) The Re-Positioning of Business Writing in the University
Chair: Maureen Mathison (University of Utah)

4c. Critical and Cultural Literacies (Yuma MU 211)
John M. Ackerman (Kent State University) The Rhetorical Capacity of Neighborhood
Melissa Carrion (Arizona State University) Pacifist Rhetoric and Military Women: Developing Critical Media Literacy
Cheryl Green (Arizona State University) S for Scopic: Wellsian Visual Rhetorics and Myths of White Female Power
Chair: Patricia Wojahn (New Mexico State University)

4d. Literacies and Discourses Across Disciplines (Santa Cruz MU 213)
Loel Kim (University of Memphis) “How different are we really?” Survey Findings
Susan Popham (University of Memphis) The Power of Politics in Program Building
Margaret Mendoza (New Mexico State University) Close Encounters with Academic Discourse: Mentoring Emergent Scholars
Chair: Maureen Daly Goggin (Arizona State University)

4e. Critiquing Big Rhetorics (Pinal MU 215)
Geof Carter (Purdue University) A Very Brief Historiography of Major Language Divisions from Locke to Deleuze and Guattari
Kristine Daines (Arizona State University) The Rhetoric of the Literary Sermon: The Dialogic of Personal, Communal, Narrative, Philosophical and Aesthetic Strands
Sharon J. Kirsch (Arizona State University West) Within Big Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Reappraisals of the New Rhetoric
Chair: Walter Keithley (Arizona State University)

Session 5   10:45-12:15

5a. Panel: Rhetorics, Communities, and Justice: A Contested Approach to Civic Education (Yavapai MU 209)
Brian Jackson (University of Arizona) Rhetorical Literacy as Civic Literacy: Reimagining Civic Humanism
Erik Juergensmeyer (University of Arizona) The Consequences of “Community”: Contesting the Future of Higher Education
Chiara Canella (University of Arizona) A New Civic Engagement: Applying the Social Justice Model
Chair: Thomas P. Miller (University of Arizona)

5b. Panel: The Shaping of Citizenship: Considering Ideological Models of Literacy in Educational Policy (Yuma MU 211)
Lydia Loskot (New Mexico State University) National Literacy: Ideological Implications for Educators and Policy Makers in Belize
Joshua Hamling (New Mexico State University) Multilingual Citizenship: Considering Ideological Models of Literacy in Educational Policy
Kathryn Valentine (New Mexico State University) (Re)designing Educational Policy: Drawing on Multiliteracies Frameworks to Inform General Education Literacy Practices
Chair: Michelle Laws (Arizona State University)

5c. Literacy Pedagogy and Pragmatism (Santa Cruz MU 213)
Kim Donehower (University of North Dakota) Is Self-Sponsored Literacy Possible?
Connie Kendall (Miami University) Pragmatism's Compass: (re)Thinking the Consequences of Belief in the Great Divide
Chair: Kirk Branch (Montana State University)

5d. Roundtable: Opening the Door of the Garret: Knowledge Construction and Literacy Development in Graduate Student Writing Groups (Alumni Lounge MU 202)
Lisa Cahill (Arizona State University)
Susan Kay Miller (Mesa Community College) (Roundtable Chair)
Veronica Pantoja (Chandler/Gilbert Community College)
Shelley Rodrigo (Mesa Community College)

5e. Layers of Literacy (Pinal MU 215)
Jamie Beatty and Anita Nordbrock (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) Understanding the Languages of Aviation: Communication-related Problems and Concerns
Micheal Callaway (Arizona State University) The Slow Creep: Hip Hop Music, the mainstream and Intercultural Rhetoric
Citalin Xochime (New Mexico State University) Rhetorical Heritages: Contrastive Expressions in Response to the Kennewick Man Case
Chair: Lynette Myles (Arizona State University)