The Rhetoric/Composition Program will host a workshop on preparing for the qualifying exam from 1:00 - 3:00 PM on Friday, February 5, in the 9th floor seminar room (#9304).
Presenters:
- Gwen Gorzelsky - Preparing for the QE (Field)
- Richard Grusin - Preparing for the QE (Emphasis)
- Clay Walker - Preparing for the QE (from a student’s point of view)
All graduate students in Rhetoric/Composition are strongly urged to attend. Graduate students in other ares are welcome to attend as well.
Professor Ranney’s essay “Mining the Collective Unconscious” appears as a chapter in the recently published Rhetorica in Motion (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). The essay is followed by responses from fellow faculty members Gwen Gorzelsky and Ruth Ray.
The Composition Program will host a workshop on grading Monday, January 11, from 1:00 - 4:00 PM in room 10302. Lunch will be served beforehand at 12:30 in the 10th floor faculty lounge. The workshop will focus on two issues – assignment development and grading w/ the ENG 1020 rubric, with special attention to the distinction between B and C papers.
All GTAs are required to attend. Part-time faculty are welcome to attend.
The Department of English and the Program in Rhetoric and Composition have received funding awards to enhance the use of pedagogical technology in in our current computer classrooms as well as the Writing Center and the department at large. Notable enhancements already in place include:
- A complete updating of one of our desktop labs (State Hall 029)
- New printers for all State Hall computer classrooms
- New laptops and a new printer/scanner/fax machine for the Writing Center
- A portable media cart for capturing class lectures and talks by guest speakers
- 30 portable handheld audio recorders and 30 portable handheld video recorders for use in classroom projects
- Camtasia software for use in composing computer-based instructional videos
Professor Pruchnic’s article “Neurorhetorics: Cybernetics, Psychotropics, and the Materiality of Persuasion” appears in the latest issue of Configurations 16.2 (Spring 2008): 167-197.
Richard Marback will lead a Writing for Publication workshop for rhet/comp graduate students on at 1 PM, Friday, 11/13, in the 10th floor conference room (#10302). This is the first in a series of program workshops organized specifically around graduate student requests. All current rhet/comp students, as well as those who are interested in the program, are strongly encouraged to attend.
The second Rhetoric Reading Group Meeting of the Fall semester will take place at 3:30 PM, Friday, November 13. The location will be The Motor City Brewing Works (470 W. Canfield Street). Our text will be Bryan Garsten’s Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard UP, 2006).
The latest issue of College Composition and Communication contains articles by two WSU rhet/comp faculty members. Issue 61.1 (September 2009) features Jim Brown’s “Essjay’s Ethos: Rethinking Textual Origins and Intellectual Property” and Gwen Gorzelsky’s “Working Boundaries: From Student Resistance to Student Agency.”
At 3:30 on 10/23, Daphne Brooks will present a talk entitled “Bring the Pain: Post-Soul Memory, Neo-Soul Affect and Lauryn Hill in the Black Public Sphere” as part of the 2009-2010 DeRoy Lecture Series. Brooks is an associate professor of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University where she teaches courses on African-American literature and culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture. She is the author of two books: Bodies in Dissent: Performing Race, Gender, and Nation in the Trans-Atlantic Imaginary (Duke UP, 2006), winner of the Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African-American Performance from ASTR, and Jeff Buckley’s Grace (New York: Continuum, 2005). She is the editor of The Great Escapes: The Narratives of William Wells Brown, Henry Box Brown, and William Craft, and The Performing Arts volume of The Black Experience in the Western Hemisphere Series. Brooks is currently also a contributing writer to The Nation where she has published articles on Beyonce and Amy Winehouse. She is currently working on a new book entitled Subterranean Blues: Black Feminist Musicial Subcultures from the Minstrelsy to the Post-Hip Hop Era (Harvard UP, forthcoming).