The first Rhetoric Reading Group Meeting of the Summer will take place at 1:30 PM, Friday, June 12. The location will be The Motor City Brewing Works (470 W. Canfield Street). Our text will be janet Atwill’s Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1998).
Professor Pruchnic has won a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award for the academic year 2008-2009.
Professor (and Directory of Composition) Ellen Barton and Sue Wells (Temple University) will lead a workshop entitled “Medical Rhetoric: Ethical Issues, Archival Concepts, and Imaginative Writing” during the 3rd Annual Summer Institute of the Rhetoric Society of America. The Institute is hosted by the Pennsylvania State University and takes place during July 22-28, 2009.
The program will hold an informal job search brown bag for R/C graduate students on Friday, May 29 at 1 PM in the English Department’s 10th floor conference room. A casual discussion of the ins and outs of the job search process will be followed by reviews of job application materials solicited from individuals recently hired to and from WSU. Participants are encouraged to review in advance Collin Brooke and Eileen Schell’s (Syracuse) handout on Preparing for the Job Market and the first few chapters of Kathryn Hume’s Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt (available as an e-book download from the WSU library).
Recent program graduate Linda Mercer Learman has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of English of Adrian College. Linda defended her dissertation in Fall ‘08 under the direction of Professor (and Director of Composition) Ellen Barton.
Multiple members of the program will be honored during the annual English Department Scholarship and Writing Awards Ceremony (taking place from 3-6 PM, in the Welcome Center Auditorium on Friday, April 24, 2009). Graduate student (and GTA) Michael McGinnis will be awarded a Thomas R. Jasina Endowed Scholarship in English. Fellow graduate student (and GTA) Clayton Walker will be awarded a Jasina Scholarship and an Albert Feigenson Scholarship, as well as the first place Tompkins Award for best essay for his work “‘Feeling,’ Saying, Being, Doing: Recuperating the Role of Affects in Literacy Research.”
The program will host a workshop for 2010 CCCC proposals on April 24, from 11 Am to 1 PM in the 10th floor conference room. A panel of graduate students who presented at this year’s CCCC will provide copies of their successful abstracts and provide advice in preparing CCCC proposals.
Professor Ray has been awarded a Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. She joins English Department Colleague Richard Grusin among this year’s winners.
PhD candidate Mike McGinnis will represent the program this Summer at The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. He will be joined by fellow PhD candidate Chinmayi Kattemalavadi for the 33rd Summer Session of the SCT, taking place from June 14 to July 23, 2009.
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