As part of the DeRoy Lecture Series, Charles Altieri will give a talk entitled “Why Modernist Claims for Autonomy Matter” on Friday, April 10, at 3 PM, in the English Department Seminar Room (10302, 5057 Woodward). Charles Altieri teaches in the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. This privilege has allowed him to write several book, the most recent of which are The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetic of the Affects (Cornell UP, 2004) and The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After (Blackwell, 2006). He is working on a book on Wallace Stevens and a sequel to The Particulars.
Several members of the WSU Rhetoric/Composition program will be presenting talks at the 2009 Computers & Writing Conference (June 18-21, Davis, CA):
On July 18, PhD Candidate Jill Morris will present a talk entitled “Jack Black and Mos Def Meet…My Classroom” as part of the panel Visual Rhetorics, Digital Videos, and Composition Pedagogies.
On July 19, the panel Archives and “Digital Antiquity” will feature multiple Wayniacs: PhD candidate Kim Lacey (Viva Whenever: Suspended and Expanded Bodies in Time”); Professor Jeff Pruchnic (”Blue Clouds, Green Futures”); and PhD Candidate Mike McGinnis (”ASCII to ASCII, DOS to DOS: Notes Toward a Digital Antiquity”).
On July 20, PhD candidate Mary Karcher will present a talk entitled “Hansel and Gretel in Cyberspace: Following Breadcrumbs in a Forest of Hypertext” as part of the panel Audiences and Surveillance: Who is Watching? Who is Reading?
Mike Ristich will represent the program at the 2009 meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (March 26-29 at Harvard), delivering a talk entitled “The Limitations of the ‘New International’” on March 28. Mike will be joined by fellow Wayniacs Professor Barrett Watten (”Sampling ‘Fachsprachen’: Ulf Stolterfoht’s ‘Lingos’ as Region of Practice” on March 28), Victor Figueroa (”Deconstructing Trujillo: Junot Diaz’s Delimma in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” on March 28), and Kristine Danielson (Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust: The Form of Memory and the Phenomenology of Violence” on March 28).
As part of the DeRoy Lecture Series, Tom Gunning will give a talk entitled “Visible/Invisible: The Medium of Vision” on Friday, March 27, at 3 PM, in the English Department Seminar Room (10302, 5057 Woodward). Tom Gunning is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art History and The Committee on Cinema and Media at the University of Chicago. He is the author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press) and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (British Film Institute), as well as over 100 articles on early cinema, film history and theory, avant-garde film, film genre, and cinema and modernism.
2011
Kim Lacey
“Making Memory: Techne, Technology, and the Refashioning of Contemporary Memory”
Director: Richard Marback
Defended: 03-30-2011
Uploaded: 04-18-2012
Jill Morris
“Gender and Race, Online Communities, and Composition Classrooms”
Director: Richard Marback
Defended: 08-30-2011
Uploaded: 04-18-2012
Thomas Trimble
“Rhetorical Outcomes: A Genre Analysis of Student Service-Learning Texts”
Director: Gwen Gorzelsky
Defended: 07-30-2011
Uploaded: 04-18-2012
2010
Justin Vidovic
“Teaching with Spirit: Friere, Dialogue, and Spirituality in the Composition Classroom”
Director: Gwen Gorzelsky
Defended: 01-19-2010
Uploaded: 12-05-2010
Sandra W. Valensky
“Composition Under Review: A Genre Analysis of Book Reviews in Composition, 1939-2007”
Director: Ellen Barton
Defended: 01-31-2010
Uploaded: 12-05-2010
Cara L. Kozma
“Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: Re-Envisioning Critical and Service Learning Pedagogies with Globalization Theory”
Director: Gwen Gorzelsky
Defended: 05-24-2010
Uploaded: 12-05-2010
2008
Linda Mercer Learman
“Where Do We Go From Here: Reflexive Instrumentalism in the Classroom”
Director: Ellen Barton
Defended: 11-17-2008
Uploaded: 12-17-2008
2006
Corinne Calice
“(In)Vocation: Considering the Ethics of Desire and the Magic in/of Rhetoric”
Director: Richard Marback
Defended: 11-26-2006
Uploaded: 12-05-2010
Stephanie Hall-Sturgis
“Does Community Based Pedagogy Foster Critical Consciousness?”
Director: Ruth Ray
Defended: 04-06-06
Uploaded: 09-29-09
The graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition involves a community of students and faculty in researching and teaching rhetoric, writing, and multimedia composing. While our graduate program is concerned with broad issues of persuasion and communication, our location in the cultural center of Detroit leads our undergraduate program to focus on writing in urban communities and professional settings. At the local level, as well as nationally and globally, writing now takes complex and multiple forms, including multimedia composing for electronic environments. Through our digital literacy initiative, WSU students and faculty are exploring contemporary issues in the design and distribution of textual artifacts, as well as the construction of theoretical and methodological frameworks for researching and teaching in new media environments
Faculty in the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition have diverse research and teaching interests and expertise. The breadth and depth of the experience our seven full-time faculty members provide students in the graduate program opportunities to research current issues in the field of Rhetoric and Composition studies.
Graduate students in composition studies at Wayne State University bring wide-ranging interests to their work. Upon graduation, many acquire tenure-track positions at major universities across the country.
The University of Michigan’s Language and Rhetorical Studies Group has organized an entire day of events with Professor Barton on March 20, 2009. Events include a lunch and discussion meeting focused on Professor Barton’s book (co-edited with Gail Stygall) Discourse Studies in Composition, one-on-one meetings with graduate students, a talk by Professor Barton entitled “Ethics-in-Interaction in Medical Encounters: Why is This Research in an English Department?,” and a dinner.
The annual “beach themed” party for English Department GTA’s will be hosted by Director of Composition Ellen Barton on Friday, March 27, starting at 6 PM.
