Spring 2008

NEW TIME: Every other Friday at 11am (See schedule below)
SAME PLACE: Sunroom Cafe, 638 State Street

Feb 1 - Ralph Cintron "'Gates Locked" and the Violence of Fixation"
Feb 15 - Sharon Crowley "Communications Skills and a Brief Rapprochement of Rhetoricians"
Feb 29 - John Duffy "Other Gods and Countries: the Rhetorics of Literacy"
Mar 14 - Krista Ratcliffe "Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness."
Mar 28 - Anne Ruggles Gere. "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition"
Apr 11 - Excerpts from Burke and Bakhtin TBA
Apr 25 - Andrea Lunsford & Lisa Ede "Rhetoric in a New Key: Women and Collaboration"
May 9 - Patricia Bizzell "'Contact Zones' and English Studies"

Fall 2007

Tuesday, September 25th 8:00am—9:15am
Enculturation 5.1 issue (in conjunction with the colloquium)

Tuesday, October 2nd 8:00am—9:15am
Nan Johnson's Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America

Tuesday, October 16th 8:00am—9:15am
Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle's "Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning 'First-Year Composition' as 'Introduction to Writing Studies'" in the June 2007 CCC 58.4

Tuesday, October 30th 8:00am—9:15am
Thomas Miller's The Formation of College English

Tuesday, November 13th 8:00am—9:15am
Amy Vidali's "Performing the Rhetorical Freak Show: Disability, Student Writing, and College Admissions" in the July 2007 College English 69.6

Tuesday, November 27th 8:00am—9:15am
Aristotle's On Rhetoric

Tuesday, December 11th 8:00am—9:15am
Sondra Perl, Beth Counihan, Tim McCormack, and Emily Schnee's "Storytelling as Scholarship: A Writerly Approach to Research" in July 2007 English Education 39.4

Spring 2007

All meetings will be on Thursday mornings at 8:00am in the Sun Room Cafe. Please feel free to come if you've read part or all the selected readings. We hope the book club will provide a chance to have breakfast together and to engage with a range of ideas and authors.

Schedule:

• February 1st -- Section 1 "The Givens in Our Conversations: The
  Writing Process " of Cross-talk in Comp Theory
• February 15th -- Section 2 "Talking in Terms of Discourse: What It
  Is, How It's Taught" of Cross-talk in Comp Theory
• March 1st -- Street's Literacy and Development
• March 15th -- Section 3 "Scientific Talk: Developmental Schemes" of
  Cross-talk in Comp Theory
• March 29th -- Section 4 "Talking about Writing in Society" of of
  Cross-talk in Comp Theory
• April 12th -- Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's The New Rhetoric
• April 26th -- Section 5 "Talking about Selves and Schools: On Voice,
  Voices, and Other Voices" of Cross-talk in Comp Theory
• May 10th -- Section 6 "Continuing the Conversation" of Cross-talk in
  Comp Theory

Fall 2006

Summer 2006

Meetings @ 3:00pm on Wednesdays at the Sun Room Cafe

Contact Beth Godbee for more info.

June 7th
Glenn's _Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition_

June 21st
Shaughnessy's _Errors and Expectations_

July 5th
Freire's _Pedagogy of the Oppressed_

July 19th
Jarratt and Worsham's _Feminism and Composition Studies_

August 2nd
Cicero's _On the Ideal Orator_

August 16th
Smitherman's _Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America_ Cushman, Kintgen, Kroll, Rose's _Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook_ (any articles you would like to add to the discussion of literacy and language practices)

August 30th
Gilyard's _Race, Rhetoric, and Composition_

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