Program
Below is a working draft of the 2018 SRCC program. If you see any errors that need correction, please send a note to srcompconference2018@gmail.com no later than Thursday, March 16.
Light Continental Breakfast: 8:00-9:30
A Sessions: 8:30-9:30
A1: Students’ Right to Their Own Language: A Discussion
A. Aleathea Conner, Shima Farhesh, Vincent Kenny-Cincotta, Angela Morris, and Errol Rivers (University of Memphis)
Chair: Errol Rivers
A2: Revitalizing the Academic Essay: Personal, Creative, Collaborative
“Workshopping the Composition Workshop: A Creative Writing Lens” Marisa L. Manuel (University of Memphis)
“Creative Composition Classrooms: Discourse Communities as Introduction to Academia” Breanne Hager (University of Memphis)
"Metaphors We Write By" Haley Quinton (University of Memphis)
Chair: Marisa L. Manuel
A3: Responsibility in Research: Encouraging Student Engagement
“Oh, the Monstrosity: Requiring Annotated Bibliographies in First Year Composition” Kerri L. Bennett (Arkansas State University)
“Entering the Conversation: Using Source Dialogues to Promote Effective Research in First Year Composition” Leslie Reed (Arkansas State University)
“Notes from the Echo Chamber” Carmen Lanos Williams (Arkansas State University)
Chair: Rhonda Powers (University of Memphis)
A4: Power, Collaboration, and Student Rights in Writing Studies
“Learners’ Rights and Responsibilities in the Two-Year College” Bryant Lytle and Sonya Ward (Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas)
“Creating Collaboration and Companionship in Composition Classrooms” Jerome Cusson (University of Memphis)
“Rethinking Composition’s Goals: Information Literacy and Problem-Based Learning as Facilitators of Empowerment” Beth Bir (Fayetteville State University)
Chair: Andrea Bishop (University of Memphis)
B Sessions: 9:45-10:45
B1: Literature With(in) Composition Studies
“First-Year Composition Implications for Zora Neale Hurston’s Rhetorical Dialect” Megan Busch (University of South Carolina)
“Power, Poison, Pain, and Joy Inside my DNA: A Rhet/Comp Perspective of Baldwin’s ‘A Talk to Teachers’” Breana Miller (University of Memphis)
“Pedagogy of the ‘B’: Langston Hughes in the Classroom” Justin Williams (University of Memphis)
Chair: John Miles (University of Memphis)
B2: Rights, Legacies, and Returns on Investments in Composition Studies
“The Legacy of Janet Emig: A Feminist Retrospective” Skye Roberson (University of Memphis)
“Returns on Investment: Graduate Students, Emotional Labor, and Policy” Airek Beauchamp and Kristi Costello (Arkansas State University)
“Anti-intellectualism and the Right to Take Part in Academic Disciplines” Patricia Burns (Tulane University)
Chair: Jessica Swan (University of Memphis)
B3: Troublesome Topics: Gender, Hate Speech, and Coercion
“Controversial Conversations: A Survey of Coercion in College Classrooms” Caleb James (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
“Inclusive Discourse Remedy: First-Year Writing Pedagogy and the Problem of Gender-Biased Language” Vince Sosko (University of Texas, Arlington)
“Discussion Trouble: The Wicked Problem of Hate Speech in the Writing Classroom” Walter Lucken (Wayne State University)
Chair: Angela Morris (University of Memphis)
B4: Questioning the Status Quo: Fake News and Half Truths in a Posthuman World
“The Curious Case of Shaquanda Jenkins: Rhetoric, Race, and Fake News” G. Bret Strauch (University of Arkansas, Fort Smith)
Fighting “half truths, prejudices, and propaganda” in Our PLACE: Creating a Culture of Baloney Detection in First-Year Writing” Corrine Hinton (Texas A&M University, Texarkana)
“‘Psychology Meets the Cyborg’: Integrating Posthuman Thought in Rogerian Composition Instruction” Sarah DeGeorge (Western Kentucky University)
Chair: Jerome Cusson (University of Memphis)
C Sessions: 11:00-12:00
C1: Ask a Librarian: Using Embedded Librarians in a Multisection Writing and Research Intensive Capstone Course
Margaret E Robinson, Brannen V Varner, Lorraine Ann Meiners-Lovel (University of Memphis)
Chair: Lorraine Ann Meiners-Lovel
C2: Advocacy and Ethical Transparency in the Composition Classroom
“Easing the Emotional Workload through Flexibility within Classroom Structure” Tabatha Simpson-Farrow (Arkansas State University)
“Rights and Responsibilities Regarding the Trauma Narrative in the First- Year Composition Classroom” Rae Summers-Thompson (Arkansas State University)
“From Equality to Efficiency: The Misappropriation of Rights Rhetoric in College Composition” Joyce Inman (University of Southern Mississippi)
Chair: Loel Kim (University of Memphis)
C3: Carrying the Weight: Writing and Responsibility at the University of Mississippi
“Exploring Power and Privilege in the Writing Classroom” Jenny Jackson (University of Mississippi)
“Turning Pain Into Poetry: Promoting Social Justice Through Empathy and Community in First Year Writing” Amber Nichols-Buckly (University of Mississippi)
“Not ‘Fake News!’: Fostering Responsible Research Skills & Design” Sarah Bartlett Wilson (University of Mississippi)
Chair: Skye Roberson (University of Memphis)
C4: Educational Resources for the Classroom
“Open Access, Homegrown: Creating Custom Educational Resources From Scratch" Brian Ray (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
“The Long and Short of It: Screen Real Estate and Short Form/Long Form Writing Assignments” Rich Miller (Suffolk University)
“Iteration for Impact: Exploring Design Thinking & Designing for Social Change in Technical Communication Client Projects” Liz Lane (University of Memphis)
Chair: Scott Sundvall (University of Memphis)
C5: Creatively Speaking: Addressing Racial Issues and Disability Advocacy through Creativity
Readings from Alyssa Radtke, Veverly Edwards, Adela Brito (University of Memphis), and Margarita Kurtz (Southwest Community College)
Chair: Marisa Manuel (University of Memphis)
Lunch and a Presentation/Performance by Daniel J. Watts, 12:00-1:20
D Sessions: 1:30-2:45
D1: Developing Rhetorical Awareness and Sharpening Academic Literacy for In-Coming Underrepresented College Students
Subrina Bogan, Holland Colclasure, Clark Harris, Caleb James, Harold Brown, Sherry Rankins-Robertson (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
Chair: Sherry Rankins-Robertson
D2: Cultural Identity: Studying Place, Politics, and Dialogue
“The Rhetoric of Place and Its Association with Social Justice on a Local Level” Meredith Boulden (University of Memphis)
“Writing Beyond White Space(s): Reality Pedagogy in the First-Year Writing Classroom” Jacqulyn Harper West (University of Central Arkansas)
“Rhetoric and Microaggressions: Exploring Author’s Responsibility to Audience in First-Year Composition” Meagan Malone (Georgia State University)
“Teaching Aristotle’s Ethos and Pathos as a Faculty of the Moral Imagination in the Composition Classroom” Paula Hayes (University of Memphis)
Chair: Liz Lane (University of Memphis)
D3: Intercultural and Cross-cultural Education
“Cultural Competency as Core Experience: A Successful Model for Crosscultural Composition” Paula Patch (Elon University)
"Interculturality: Language Teachers’ Responsibilities toward their Communities" Ruqayyah N. Moafa (University of Memphis)
"Toward a Transitional Writing Practice: Nations, Reconciliation, and the Rituals of Transitions" Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi (Dartmouth College)
“Linguistic Landscape and Minority Languages in Memphis” Ali Aljohani (University of Memphis)
Chair: Brian Ray (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
D4: What We Teach, How We Teach: The Educator’s Role in Discussing Civil Rights
“From Black Lives Matter to English Composition: Right or Responsibility?” Mara Holt (Ohio University)
“Race, Rhetoric, and the New Capitalism” David Nowak (Wayne State University)
“Case Studies: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement(s) to Contemporary College Writers” Erin Boade (University of Southern Mississippi)
"Representation in Course Readings: Encouraging Exploration and Critique of Internalized Notions of Self and Other through Nontraditional Texts" Pam Murphy (University of West Georgia)
Chair: Joseph Jones (University of Memphis)
D5: Assignment Design Roundtable
“The Portfolio Capstone Project” Lorraine Ann Meiners-Lovel (University of Memphis)
“Hashtags, Hostility, and Humanity: Negotiating Resistance to the Black Lives Matter Movement" Erica Lange (Ohio University)
“Defining Refutation: A Classroom Analysis of ‘Diss Tracks’ and Incorporating Balanced Arguments into Student Papers” Kendra L. Vanderlip (University of Memphis)
“The Text Curation Project” Rhonda R Powers (University of Memphis)
‘“And I See God Working in This Period:’ Teaching Race, Local Color and Providence in Writing” Crystal Harris (University of Memphis)
“Place-Based Genre Writing as a Critical Expressivist Practice” Gabrielle Lawrence (University of Central Arkansas)
Chair: Rhonda Powers