Convention Theme: “Common Concerns, Uncommon realities: Teaching, Research, and Scholarship in a Complex World”

Convention Chair: Jacqueline Jones Royster

Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession

Chair: Elizabeth Flynn, Michigan Technological University

Business Meeting held during the SIG Session Thursday Evening

• Workshop Theme and Location: "Conflicts With/in Academic Feminisms: Negotiating Diversity, Negotiating Hierarchy," Nashville, TN

• Feminist Workshop CFP:

Feminist Workshop Co-Chairs:

• Kris Ratcliffe, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Roxanne Mountford, Rensalaar Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Presenters:

• Yuet-Sim Darrell Chang, University of California, Berkley, "Complexities Amidst Pluralities: Feminist Teaching and the 'Multi-Culture' Classroom"

• Drema Lipscomb, University of Rochester, New York, "Reweaving Women's Colors: Scholarship, Race, and the Re-Construction of Acadmic Feminist Discourse"

• Susan C. Jarrett, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, " 'SWF': The Persistence of Exclusion"

• Sarah Sloane, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Washington, "Queer Theory in the Culture of a Writing Class: Research and Practice"

• Daneen Shepherd, Ohio State University, Columbus, "Empowering Basic Writers to Negotiate Their Differences within Academic Boundaries"

• Laura Tohe, Arizona State University, Tempe, "Who's Leading? Who's Following? A Matriarchal Perspective and Composition"

• Juanita Comfort, Ohio State University, Columbus, "Scenes of Self-Authorization: A Black Graduate Student Writes Herself into the Profession"

• Win Horner, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, "A Full Professor Refelects on Being a Woman in Rhetoric and Composition Studies"

• Arabella Lyon, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "Anti-Pluralist Stances in the Academy"

• Susan K. Hahn, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, and Jody Millward, Santa Barbara City College, California, "Women Negotiating Academic Hierarchies: The Damaging Illusion of Equity"

• Dian J. Pizurie and Carol Peterson Haviland, California State University, San Bernardino, "Self-Description and Difference: Can We Name Ourselves "Feminists'?"

• Louise Z. Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston, "Feminism, Diversity, and Publishing"

Discussion Leaders:

• Michelle Ballif, University of texas, Arlington

• Linda Bergmann, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

• Elizabeth Britt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

• Christine Farris, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Cheryl Glenn, Oregon State University, Corvallis

• Lisa L. Higgins, University of Missouri, Columbia

• Marilyn Moller, St. Martin's Press, New York

• Beverly J. Moss, Ohio State University, Columbus

• Jeri L. Ohmart, California State University, Chico

• Michelle Payne, University of New Hampshire, Durham

• Nedra Reynolds, University of Rhode Island, Kingston

• Kandi Tayebi, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley

Workshop Program