2007 Feminist Workshop

Convention Theme: "Representing Identities"

Convention Chair: Cheryl Glenn

Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession Chair: Heather Bruce

Feminist Workshop CFP:

Feminist Workshop Co-Chairs:

Workshop Convention Theme: What is the State of Feminism?

Convention Chair:

Feminist Caucus Chairs: Susan H. Hahn, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN

Special Interest Group Chair:

Special Interest Group Theme:

Presenters:

• Speakers: Pia Taavila, Galludet University, Fredricksburg, VA, “Poetry Reading”

• Maurine Magliocco, University Professionals of Illinois, Springfi eld, “Healthcare and Retirement Benefi ts: How Changes at GM Affect Women in the Academy”

• Kathleen R. Winter, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD, “Maybe a Hieroglyph for ‘Scream’: Revisiting Adrienne Rich and Tillie Olsen”

• Amy M. Patrick, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, “Women, Environmental Justice, and the Rhetoric of Sustainability”

• Alice Robertson, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, “Empowerment or ‘Overpowerment’?: An Examination of the Alarming Rise in Student/Teacher Conflicts”

• Jody Millward, Santa Barbara City College, CA, “What Does Visibility Hide?”

• Kris Peleg, Century College, White Bear Lake, MN, “‘We do online courses so we do not have to work [with] other people’: Considering Community in Online Women’s Studies Courses”

• Jennifer Novak, University of Denver, CO, “Your Criteria Is not My Criteria: Measuring Value in the Acadame”

• Hildy Miller, Portland State University, OR, “Reinvigorating Feminism by Reclaiming Past Feminist Paradigms”

• Charlene Spearen, University of South Carolina, Columbia, “Mary O’Malley: Feminist Rhetoric of Poetry”

• Jayne Moneysmith, Kent State, Stark, Canton, OH, “Mentoring throughout One’s Career”

• Cindy Moore, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, “Change from Within: The Good That Happens when Feminist Compositionists become Upper-Level Administrators”

• Andrea Adolph, Kent State, Stark, Canton, OH, “An SMC Teaches Composition”

• Margaret Stahr, University of Pittsburgh, PA, “One-on-one: Mentoring as a Form of Feminism”

• Sara Gerend, Purdue University, North Central, Westville, IN, “Telling Stories: Professional Women and the Necessity of Narrative”

• Susan Hahn, DePaul University, Greencastle, IN, “Seventeen Years at the Feminist Workshop”

• Violet A. Dutcher, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, “The Composition Classroom: Sites of Feminist Transformation”

Workshop Program

Full conference program (including workshop) available here