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New Writing Center Podcasts
The latest in the Writing Center series of podcasts is a four-part podcast where Brad Hughes interviewed Deb Brandt about her work. You subscribe to the RSS feed. Upload them to your iPod and take an intellectually engaging walk!
New Prelims Questions released
The following faculty-authored prelim questions will remain in effect through August 2010:
1. Where is the rhetoric in rhetoric and composition?
2. Composition and Rhetoric has long borrowed its methods from other fields and disciplines. Drawing on the core list, consider what C&R's methods are and how these methods become or do not become distinctive to the field.
Composition and Rhetoric Colloquium Series
Writing in the Post-‘Man-of-Letters’ Modern World
May's Comp Rhet Colloquium will feature a visit and lecture by Geoffrey Sirc, professor of English at Minnesota and author of English Composition as a Happening (winner of the W. Ross Winterowd award for best book in composition theory).
May 2, 2008
3:30 pm
Memorial Library 126
New!: Podcasts of past colloquia available on the colloquium page.
Get more details and see past colloquia
here!
Congratulations go out to . . .
Rasha Diab for receiving a dissertation fellowship from the American Association of University Women.
Mira Shimabukuro for receiving the Mary Adams dissertation fellowship from the English Department.
Kate Vieira who has won a University Dissertator Fellowship for 2008-09.
Maria Bibbs, Annie Massa-Macleod, and Matthew Capdevielle who have been selected as Future Faculty Partners in the UW Teaching Academy.
Bryan Trabold, alum and assistant professor at Suffolk University in Boston, who has been awarded an NEH Summer Grant to work on a book based on his 2003 dissertation, "Subversive Rhetors: The Negotiation of Audience in Apartheid South Africa.
Job Announcements!
Adam Koehler will
begin his teaching career this fall at Manhattan College as Professor of
English and Director of Composition.
Eric Pritchard has accepted a position as assistant professor in the
Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Eric will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural rhetoric and
literacy. He also will be will be a faculty affiliate with the Center for
African and African American Studies and the Center for Women's and Gender
Studies.
Corey Mead has accepted a position as assistant professor in the Department of English at Baruch College, City University of New York, where he will teach a variety of undergraduate writing courses.
Alice J. Robison (Ph.D. 2006) will soon join the faculty in the English department at Arizona State University following her 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She will continue her research and publishing agenda in the areas of literacy, writing, and new media while joining a healthy consortium of videogames researchers across ASU's campuses. Alice also has plans to continue her work as a researcher and consultant on several of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning grants.
Congratulations CCCC Chair's Memorial Scholarship Winners!
The CCCC typically awards only four scholarships a year; Wisconsin will be mightily represented by:
Rasha Diab will present her paper, "Al-Sadat and Peace: Rewriting the Dialectics of Conflict and Conflict Resolution."
Kate Vieira will present her paper, "Entre Nos: What New England's Portuguese-Language Press Can Teach Us About Immigrant Literacies at the Turn of Two Centuries."
Congratulations Vilas Travel Grant Award Winners!
Rik Hunter: The award is in support of his presentation, “Don't Bite the n00bs!: Collective Networks & Collaborative Composition in WoWWiki,” at the 2008 CCCC in New Orleans, LA, in connection with his dissertation, tentatively titled: Fansumers: Literacy, Learning, and Labor in a Fan Community.
Mira Shimabukuro: The award is in support of archival research at the Japanese American National Museum, the Bancroft Library, and special collections at Stanford and UCLA in connection with her dissertation, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing Out of Mass Incarceration.
Kate Vieira: The award is in support of archival research at the Fall River (Mass.) Historical Society, the New Bedford Historical Society, and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in connection with her dissertation, "Fragmented Assimilation: How Literacy Unites and Divides a Changing Portuguese-Speaking Community."
Updating Site
I'm in the process of consolidating the "past news" and "accomplishments" pages, so those page will be offline for a little bit. ~ Rik
Recent Alum Publications
Eli Goldblatt of Temple University, the first graduate of the comp-rhet program, has published a new book called Because We Live Here from Hampton Press.
John Duffy's Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community is now available from University of Hawai'i Press! The book is based on life in Wausau, Wisconsin and grew out of John's dissertation.
Congratulations to Rhea Lathan
Rhea Lathan has been awarded a Public Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship at Michigan State University, where she is a second-year assistant professor. The award will allow her to work on a book in progress (Freedom Writers) on the mid-20th century, African American adult literacy campaign on the South Carolina Sea Islands.
Congratulations to Jacque Preston
Her article "There Again, Common Sense: Rethinking Literacy Through Ethnography" appears in the Fall 07 issue of Community Literacy Journal.
2007 Melville Award Winners
Congratulations to this year's winners of the Melville Award for
best essay written by a graduate student in composition and rhetoric:
Mira
Shimabukuro, "Relocating Authority: Co-Author(iz)ing
Japanese American Ethos Under Mass Incarceration
Honorable Mention:
Scot Barnett, Psychogeographies of Writing: Bio Mapping and the
Limits of Locative Media
Welcome New Additions to the Program
Morris Young joins the CompRhet faculty from Miami University
New Students:
Annie Massa-Macleod
Rebecca Lorimer
James Daniel
Kim Moreland
Congratulations to CompRhet alum John Duffy
He received tenure this June and is now Associate
Professor of English and the O'Malley Director of the University
Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.
Congratulations to CompRhet alum Kevin Porter
His book, Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist
Philosophy of Discourse, (Parlor Press, 2006) has won the 2006
W. Ross Winterowd
Award for best book on composition theory.
Madison Area Writing Center
Colloquium
Get more details and see
past colloquia here!
Composition and Rhetoric Book Club
Everyone interested in Comp/Rhet readings, issues, and happenings is welcome to attend.
See this semester's schedule here!
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