2001 Feminist workshop

Convention Theme: “Composing Community” (Denver, CO)

Convention Chair: John Lovas

Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession Chair:

• Heather Bruce, University of Montana (Business Meeting held March 16, 7:30-8:30 a.m.)

Workshop Theme and Location: "Composing and Complicating Community Through Truth-Telling"

• Feminist Workshop CFP:

Feminist Workshop Co-Chairs:

• Cindy Moore, Indiana University, Purdue University, Ft. Wayne

• Dora Ramirez-Dhoore, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Special Interest Group Chair:

• Laura Lane, University of Central Florida, Jacksonville

Special Interest Group Theme: "Women's Network: When We Dead Awaken, or Women Organizing for Better Working Conditions"

Presenters:

• Nancy Welch, University of Vermont, burlington, "Community in the Chinks and Cracks"

• Mary Ann Cain, Indiana University, Purdue, "[illegible] Tyranny in Personal Narrative"

• Janine DeBaise, SUNY, Syracuse, "An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Academy: Can We Build Community Despite the Classroom Walls?"

• Susan Miller, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, "Feminists vs. Women, Women vs. Feminists: The Very (Classed) Idea of Community"

• Gwendolyn Pough, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, "Critical Casualties, Coalitions, and Community: What Happens When We Talk Real Honest about Race and Feminism"

• Charlotte Hogg, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "Competition and Collaboration: Considering Community among Graduate Students"

• Hallie Lemon, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "Juncting the Job: Renaming All Teachers of Composition as Professionals"

• Alice Robertson, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "Repairing Disrupted Classroom Communities: Achieving a Delicate Balance"

• Christina Wherley, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "The Silent Female in the Classroom Community"

• Hildy Miller, Portland State University, "Spiritual Practices and Academic Feminism: Points of Conflict and Community"

• Saralinda Blanning, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "Coming together from Afar: Transient Graduate Students Reach Out"

• Melissa Hamilton Hayes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Coming together from Afar: Transient Graduate Students Reach Out"

• Tonya Stremlau Johnson, Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., "Glass Walls (Never Mind Glass Ceilings): Deaf in a Hearing Community"

• Jane Detweiler, University of Nevada, Reno, "Telling the Truth but Telling It Slant: An Invert's True Professions"

• Carol Bender, Alma College, "Improvising Our Identity: The Invisible Woman in Higher Education"

• Kathleen Winter, Morehead State University, Kentucky, "This Is What I Do/This Is Who I Am"

• Margrethe Ahlschwede, University of Tennessee, Martin, "Blessed Be the Ties That Bind: Composing Communities on the Undergraduate Campus"

• Tracy Ann Robinson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, "Learning about Teaching from and with Women Graduate Students"

• Beth Burmester, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, "Composing (in) the Institution One Babystep at a Time: Some Complicated Truths about Graduate Education, Motherhood, and the Search for Community"

• Chauna Craig, Indiana University, "Communion with Myself: Surviving as 'The Feminist' at a Rural Southern University"

• Heather Bruce, University of Montana, Missoula, "Owning Up: Examining White Privilege and Composing Community with Our Sisters of Color"

• Rebecca Taylor, Gustavus Adolphus College, "Of All the Jobs in the World..."

• Maurine Magliocco, Western Illinois University, Macomb, "Contract Language Builds Community"

• Sandee McGlaun, North Georgia College and SU, "What Does It Mean to Compose a Feminist Community?: More Lost Patience and Found Texts"

• Jami Carlacio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, "Call and Reponse: Invoking a Rhetorical Community"

• Gay Gavin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, "A Strident Bitch Confronts Community: Gender, Ethnicity, and Anger in the Classroom"

• Teresa Guinsantao Monberg, University of Louisville, "Teaching Technology, Complicating the Global Community: Gender, Race, What's the Difference?"

• Roseanne Hoefel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, "Conflict and Community: Toward a Feminist Ethics for Scholarly Debate"

• Margaret Strain, University of Dayton, Ohio, "Enhancing the Role of Women on Campus: Telling the Truth about Resistance"

• Betty Rogers Youngkin, University of Dayton, Ohio, "What Does Feminist Community Mean?";

  • Cynthia Lewis, University of Dayton, Ohio

• Amber Feldman Golberg, University of Central Florida, Orlando, "Building Community: Women in the University of Central Florida Writing Program"

Workshop Program