COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC AT MLA 2015
— list compiled by searching “Writing Studies,” “Composition,” “Rhetoric” and “Writing Programs” (apologies if I missed anyone…)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
- Digital Rhetorics in Flux
Thursday, 8 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., 207, VCC West
- Rhetoric of Crisis and the Politics of Cuts
Thursday, 8 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., 212, VCC West
176. What Does It Mean to Publish? New Forms of Scholarly Communication
Thursday, 8 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., 17, VCC East.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
- Reorganizing the MLA: Making More Room for Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies
Friday, 9 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 204, VCC West
- Who Defines College Readiness? The Common Core State Standards and the Future of English Studies
Friday, 9 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 109, VCC West
- “Difficult” Women and the Teaching of Writing
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 112, VCC West
- Teaching Englishes: Forty Years of “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” (SRTOL)
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 224, VCC West
- Understanding Plagiarism, Student Writing, and Research Methods through the Citation Project, Serviss, Howard, & Jamieson
Friday, 9 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 202, VCC West
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10
- Decoding Digital-Age Business Communication
Saturday, 10 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 217, VCC West
- Making Writing in Third Spaces
Saturday, 10 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 112, VCC West
- Pipe(line) Dreams: The Promise and Monstrosity of Bitumen Narratives
Saturday, 10 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 224, VCC West
- La idea de la retórica americana / The Idea of American Rhetoric
Saturday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 8, VCC East
- The Form(s) of Writing: Rhetorics, Genres, Media, Disciplines
Saturday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 116, VCC West
- Writing in Context: Content-Based First-Year Composition
Saturday, 10 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 219, VCC West
- Crossroads and Technical Communication: Second-Language Instruction, Habit, and Sustainability
Saturday, 10 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 114, VCC West
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11
- Geographies of Memory in Nineteenth-Century America
Sunday, 11 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 217, VCC West
- Integrating the Rhetorical Arts
Sunday, 11 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 116, VCC West
- Lions and Tigers and Bears . . .
Sunday, 11 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 7, VCC East 220, VCC West
- Teaching Composition after the Neuro Turn
Sunday, 11 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 116, VCC West
THE PROFESSION
- Critical University Studies and the Question of Teaching
Thursday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 114, VCC West
- Strengthening the Undergraduate Major in English Studies
Friday, 9 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 210, VCC West
- Professional Tensions in Present-Day English
Saturday, 10 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 215, VCC West
- Multimedia Realisms
Saturday, 10 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 202, VCC West
- Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop
Saturday, 10 January, 1:30–3:30 p.m., 1, VCC East
- MFA versus PhD? Rethinking Creative Writing in the Academy
Saturday, 10 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 109, VCC West
- Strategies for Advocacy, Lobbying, and Activism in the Humanities
Saturday, 10 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 117, VCC West
- Pedagogical Landscapes: Materialities of the Neo–Liberal Arts
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 117, VCC West
Sandra Jamieson 