Wednesday, April 3
These workshops require a separate registration and fee.
Morning Workshops
9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
MW.01 Arts-Based Research as Feminist Praxis
Arts-based research methods trouble and overwrite traditional constraints of research, tapping the empathetic imagination to rewrite legacies of positivism and marginalization. Participants will play and move creatively and critically, reflecting on an abundance of academic praxes by experimenting with poetry, generated prose, and visual art as interpretive methodologies.
Room 401 A-C (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Leader: Collie Fulford, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Speakers: Michelle LaFrance, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Sandra Tarabochia, University of Oklahoma
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
MW.02 Community Writing Mentorship Workshop
Led by a diverse group of prominent community writing scholars, this workshop offers mentoring and feedback to attendees at any level of experience with anticolonial, anti-ableist, and antiracist project and course design, relevant scholarship, ethics of community work, ways to evaluate and publicize projects, questions related to scholarship, and job and tenure evaluation strategies.
Centennial Ballroom 300 A (Lower Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Chair and Speaker: Veronica House, University of Denver
Workshop Facilitators and Speakers: Isabel Baca, The University of Texas at El Paso
Sweta Baniya, Virginia Tech University
Ada Hubrig, Sam Houston State University
Tobi Jacobi, Colorado State University
Jessica Restaino
Lauren Rosenberg, The University of Texas at El Paso
Sherita Roundtree
Iris Ruiz
Rachael Shah
Don Unger
Stephanie Wade
College Writing and Reading
MW.03 Council on Basic Writing Workshop
Sponsored by the Council on Basic Writing
The Council on Basic Writing Workshop is an annual half-day program for teachers and scholars interested in the theory, pedagogy, research, and politics of basic writing studies. Participants will work together to develop new lines of inquiry and share innovative practices that will advance the study and practice of basic writing.
Room 302 A/B (Lower Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Session Chair: Jack Morales, Pace University
Workshop Leaders: Susan Bernstein, City University of New York
James Dunn, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Barbara Gleason, City College of New York, CUNY
Nicole Hancock, Southwestern Illinois College
Leigh Jonaitis, Bergen Community College
William Lalicker, West Chester University
Hope Parisi, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
RAsheda Young, Rutgers University
Workshop Facilitators: Elizabeth Baldridge
Darin Jensen, Salt Lake Community College
Rachel Ihara, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Lynn Reid, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
MW.04 Creating Paths Forward: Rethinking Hiring Committee Practices
This workshop aims to facilitate the critical examination of existing hiring norms, reframe inequitable and outdated expectations, and develop inclusive practices for our field’s hiring processes.
Room 303 A/B (Lower Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Facilitators and Speakers: Anicca Cox, Methodist University
Letizia Guglielmo, Kennesaw State University
Claire Lutkewitte, Nova Southeastern University
Speakers: Charlotte Asmuth, Duke University
Juliette Kitchens, Nova Southeastern University
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
MW.06 Tools and Strategies for Building Labor Solidarity and Acting Collectively
Participants in this workshop will leave with a greater understanding of the complexities of solidarity building, collective action, and labor advocacy. They will also gather resources and create action plans that may help them in their own situations. Finally, they will make connections with colleagues in other institutions to build or expand networks of solidarity.
Room 102 C/D (Lower Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Facilitators and Speakers: Anicca Cox, Methodist University
Seth Kahn, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Amy Lynch-Biniek
Lacey Wootton, American University
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
MW.07 Using Leadership Frameworks to Work through Diversity Scenarios
In this workshop facilitators will introduce three leadership frameworks that might help leaders navigate different scenarios they face as academic leaders. By working through various case studies, the facilitators will demonstrate how WPAs can rely on these flexible leadership frameworks to promote DEI goals while addressing wicked problems that manifest in writing programs.
Room 202 A-C (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Speakers: Janelle Chu Capwell, University of Arizona
Sheila Carter-Tod, University of Denver
Laura Davies, SUNY, Cortland
Berte Reyes, Pima Community College
Rochelle Rodrigo, University of Arizona
Inclusion and Access
MW.08 Writing with Executive Dysfunction
A workshop for neurodivergent writers and those who work with them. Featuring a mix of activities including timed writing, small-group discussion, and collaborative resource sharing, the workshop will model what supports for neurodivergent writing practices can look like as well as activate the collective wisdom of neurodivergent workshop participants in sharing tips and tricks.
Room 201 A/B (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Speakers: Melissa Forbes, Gettysburg College
Aimée Morrison, University of Waterloo
Afternoon Workshops
1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Histories of Rhetoric
AW.01 An Abundant Coalition: Intergenerational Conversations about the State of Feminist Rhetorical Work
Sponsored by the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Annual two-part session hosted by the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition: (1) small-group discussion session on the status of feminist rhetorical work, with special attention to intergenerational listening; (2) mentoring tables on topics from dissertation writing and feminist pedagogy to archive research methods and feminist administration practices.
Room 202 A-C (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Standing Group Chair: Jessica Enoch, University of Maryland
Speaker: Becca Richards
Inclusion and Access
AW.03 Demystifying the Dissertation: A Critical Conversation with Graduate Students and Advisors
Sponsored by the Dissertation Special Interest Group
The goal of this workshop is to open critical conversation about the dissertation, a genre that, for most rhetoric and composition graduate students, represents a major access point for full membership into the field. This workshop asks: What are the norms, epistemologies, and ideologies of the dissertation? And how does this genre act as a gatekeeper that shapes who can access our field?
Room 207 (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Facilitator and Speaker: Dana Comi, Utah Valley University
Speaker: Charlesia McKinney
Inclusion and Access
AW.04 Expanding Our Pedagogical Capacity for All Our Students: Strengthening Accessibility and Inclusion in Our Classrooms and Programs
Sponsored by the Online Writing Instruction Standing Group
This workshop aims at expanding the accessible pedagogy capacity of our teacher community by engaging writing faculty in hands-on activities and guided discussions on three key areas of accessibility-focused pedagogy of inclusion: course design and curriculum, class interactions, and technology concerns. Participants share their experiences and also receive ready-to-use teaching materials.
Room 206 A (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Chairs: Cassie Miura, University of Washington, Tacoma
Sushil Oswal
Workshop Facilitators and Speakers: Kevin Eric DePew, Old Dominion University
Carrie Dickison
Michelle Stuckey
Joanna Whetstone
Speakers: Casey McArdle, Michigan State University
Meghan Velez, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Ashlyn Walden, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Antiracism and Social Justice
AW.05 Mapping the Abundance of Just Futures: A Workshop on Social Justice-Oriented Teaching and Language Difference
Sponsored by the Language Policy Committee
This CCCC Language Policy Committee workshop addresses Jennifer Sano-Franchini’s rich question,: “How can abundance help us reimagine and take action toward just linguistic futures?” This half-day workshop will consist of an introductory overview of its purpose and mission followed by two group-facilitated sessions.
Meeting Room 1 (Ground Floor Lobby, Davenport Grand)
Workshop Facilitator and Speaker: Isabel Baca, The University of Texas at El Paso
Speakers: Qwo-Li Driskill, Oregon State University
David Green, Howard University
Austin Jackson, Brown University
Kim Brian Lovejoy, Indiana University School of Liberal Arts
Rashidah Muhammad, Governors State University
Elaine Richardson, The Ohio State University
Denise Troutman, Michigan State University
Bonnie Williams, California State University, Fullerton
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
AW.07 Reclaiming the Shadow Canon: Embracing the Fullness of System-Impacted Community Expertise
Sponsored by the Prison Literacies and Pedagogy
This workshop showcases prison writing programs that reframe overlooked resources and relationships as a way of flipping institutional rhetorics from scarcity to abundant possibility.
Room 206 B (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Roundtable Leaders: Alexandra Cavallaro, California State University, San Bernardino, “Capitalist Logics of Scarcity and College-in-Prison Programs”
Anna Plemons, Washington State University, “Relational Methodologies for the Prison Classroom”
JoyBelle Phelan, University of Denver, “Leveraging System-Impacted Expertise”
Speakers: Libby Catchings, University of Denver
Tobi Jacobi, Colorado State University, “Recognizing the Contributions of Global Prison Narratives”
Respondent: Catherine Koehler, University of California, Merced
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
AW.08 Role-Playing Peer Review: Games and Gatekeepers—Round Two
Sponsored by the Council for Play and Game Studies
This panel explores gatekeeping, critical empathy, and writing abundance in writing classrooms by having participants role-play students and teachers in a peer-review workshop.
Room 206 C (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Session Chair: Dylan Altman, Council for Play and Game Studies/CSUN, Oxnard College, LAVC
Workshop Facilitators and Speakers: Rebekah Shultz Colby, University of Denver
Sarah Dwyer
Workshop Leader: Emi Stuemke, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Writing Abundance
AW.09 Writing with(in) Abundance: Cultivating Interdisciplinary Positionings and Practices across the Fields of English
Interdisciplinary practice and collaborations across the fields of literature, rhetoric and composition, and linguistics are the work of writing abundance. This workshop invites participants to share strategies, practices, and processes within their own classrooms and lessons in reflective, relational, and reciprocal ways, in order to teach writing with(in) abundance.
Room 201 A/B (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Facilitator: Tabitha Espina
Workshop Leaders: Lee Emrich, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Joy Kwon, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Writing Abundance
AW.10 Celebrating an Abundance of Opportunities: Non-native English-Speaking Writing Instructors’ Strengths, Struggles, and Strategies in Teaching Composition
Sponsored by the Non-Native English-Speaking Writing Instructors (NNESWIs) Standing Group
This NNESWIs Standing Group-sponsored workshop attempts to build on the abundance of linguistic and cultural resources that NNESWIs bring to the teaching of composition by sharing our resources and strengths as well as challenges and strategies to support inclusivity and equity for NNESWIs within writing programs and composition scholarship through six roundtables.
Standing Group Chair: Lan Wang-Hiles, West Virginia State University
Speakers: Lucy Belomoina, Illinois State University
Ming Fang, Florida International University
Ifthikhar Haider, Illinois State University
Marcela Hebbard, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Xuan Jiang, Florida International University
Z. Z. Lehmberg, Northern Michigan University
Xinqiang Li, Michigan State University
Mariya Tseptsura, University of Arizona
All-Day Workshops
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Writing Abundance
W.01 Conversations of Writing Abundance at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs)
Sponsored by the American Indian Caucus
This American Indian Caucus-sponsored full-day cross-caucus workshop focuses on learning, teaching, and working in institutions serving underserved, underrepresented, and underresourced students of color. Facilitators will provide crucial information for each topic followed by 15-minute activities, ending with a planning session for cross-institutional coalitions between MSIs and PWIs.
Meeting Room 2 (Ground Floor Lobby, Davenport Grand)
Workshop Facilitator and Speaker: Kimberly Wieser, The University of Oklahoma, “Welcome and History of Indigenous Peoples of Spokane”
Speakers: Ira Allen, Northern Arizona University, “Tribute to Dr. Sol Neely (Cherokee Nation)”
Yavanna Brownlee, University of Northern Colorado, “Food Security/Sovereignty As a Path toward Countering Climate Change”
Christina Cedillo, University of Houston-Clear Lake, “Decentering Mestizaje at HSIs”’
Samaa Gamie, Lincoln University
Hope Jackson, North Carolina A&T State University, “Diaspora in Dialogue, Part 1 and Part 2”
Cathryn Jennings, Hamline University, “Languaging and Landmarking Knowledges”
Kendra Mitchell, Florida A&M University, “Diaspora in Dialogue, Part 1 and Part 2”
Mudiwa Pettus, Medgar Evers College CUNY, “Diaspora in Dialogue, Part 1 and Part 2”
Iris Ruiz, “Integrating Multimodality in First Year Composition at HSI’s”
Jaquetta Shade-Johnson, University of Missouri-Columbia, “Languaging and Landmarking Knowledges”
Ada Vilageliu-Diaz, University of the District of Columbia, “Decentering Mestizaje at HSIs”
Lydia Wilkes, Auburn University, “Tribute to Dr. Sol Neely (Cherokee Nation)”
Rance Weryackwe, The University of Oklahoma, “Allyship through NAGPRA Advocacy”
First-Year Writing
W.02 Dual Enrollment Composition: An Abundance of Opportunity for Equity and Access
Sponsored by the Dual Enrollment Collective
With equity and access as the focus, this workshop will provide participants with information regarding DE delivery models, research on DE student self-efficacy, strategies for addressing technological challenges faced by students, practical examples of professional development and training, ways to build student support for underserved populations, and avenues to for students advocacy.
Meeting Room 4 (Ground Floor Lobby, Davenport Grand)
Standing Group Chair: Casie Moreland, University of Idaho
Workshop Facilitators: Rebecca Babcock, University of Texas-Permian Basin
Scott Campbell, University of Connecticut
Jessica Rivera-Mueller, Utah State University
Speakers: Jerrice Donelson, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Deborah Hodgkins, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Lonni Pearce, University of Colorado, Boulder
Frank Romanelli, University of Rhode Island
Kathy Rose, Utah Tech University
Erin Scott-Stewart, Southern University and A&M College
Antiracism and Social Justice
W.03 Feminist Workshop: Feminist Latinx Imagination and Experience through Testimonio
Sponsored by the Feminist Caucus
The workshop seeks to expand coalitions as means for inclusion/exclusion by focusing on how our organizations and institutions limit or expand the feminist Latinx imagination and experience. We center testimonio as an opportunity to tell stories, to bear witness as a collective “we,” and to recognize the need for critical reflexivity.
Meeting Room 3 (Ground Floor Lobby, Davenport Grand)
Caucus Chair: Kate Pantelides, Middle Tennessee State University
Chairs and Speakers: Christina Cedillo, University of Houston-Clear Lake, “Latinx Accessiblity/(Dis)ability Studies”
Karen Tellez-Trujillo, Cal Poly Pomona, “Latinx Feminist Resilience”
Chair and Respondent: Aurora Matzke, Chapman University
Chair: Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday, Florida State University
Speakers: Angela Clark-Oates, Sacramento State University
Ruby Mendoza, Sacramento State University, “CRT & Chicanx Rhetorics”
Nora Rivera, Chapman University, “Latinx Language Rights”
Consuelo Salas, San Diego State University, “Latinx Food Studies”
Ada Vilageliu-Diaz, University of the District of Columbia, “Latinx Feminist Faculty”
Antiracism and Social Justice
W.04 Mode than Just Words: An Antiracist Multimodal Workshop
This workshop will prepare instructors to honor students’ backgrounds, needs, and goals by drawing on contemporary scholarship in antiracism, multimodal composition, and assessment. The workshop engages instructors with retooling both assignments and the broader pedagogical ecology in which they exist to afford students multimodal composing options as a move toward more equitable learning.
Meeting Room 5 (Ground Floor Lobby, Davenport Grand)
Workshop Facilitator: Wilfredo Flores, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Speakers: Justin Cary, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Kefaya Diab, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Debarati Dutta, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jessi Morton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
W.05 Research Abundance Outside the US Writing Context
Sponsored by the International Researchers Consortium
Through a full-day series of discussions, 34 international colleagues and workshop registrants will meet to engage with abundant writing research and development within an inclusive international framework. Participants choose among each other’s texts to read in advance and to discuss in small groups during the workshop, enabling deep, sustained international exchange.
Centennial Ballroom 300 D (Lower Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Standing Group Chairs: Jay Jordan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Brooke Schreiber, Baruch College CUNY
Workshop Facilitators: Rebecca Babcock, University of Texas-Permian Basin, “Applied Linguistics Postgraduates’ Social Practices when Writing Thesis and Research Articles in English at a Mexican University”
Laura Baumvol, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, “Formative Feedback: Teaching Academic Writing at a Canadian Research University”
Purna Chandra Bhusal, The University of Texas at El Paso, “Caste Discrimination and/versus Alternative Pedagogy: Promoting Justice through Mandatory English Writing Classrooms in Nepal”
Lauren Connolly, Lewis-Clark State College, “Analyzing Student Writing about Their Experiences and Research within Study Abroad Programs”
Tiane Donahue, Dartmouth and U. of Lille
Yinyin Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, P.R.China, “Developing a Dialogical Voice through Interaction in Second Language Writing”
Marillia M. Ferreira, University of São Paulo, Brazil, “EAP Teacher Education and Internationalization: Pedagogical Principles, Challenges, and Resources Used by Inservice and Preservice EAP Instructors”
Graciela Arizmendi González, University of Guanajuato, “Applied Linguistics Postgraduates’ Social Practices when Writing Thesis and Research Articles in English at a Mexican University”
Magnus Gustafsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Amy Hodges, The University of Texas at Arlington, “Applied Linguistics Postgraduates’ Social Practices when Writing Thesis and Research Articles in English at a Mexican University”
Bernadette Huber, University of Queensland, Australia, “What Happens if We Talk about the Affective Experience of Undergraduate Academic Writing?”
Soldead Montes, Lancaster University, “Tracing Shifts in the Treatment of Knowledge in Students’ Writing: The Transition from School to University of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Students”
Katja Thieme, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, “Formative Feedback: Teaching Academic Writing at a Canadian Research University”
Joseph Wilson, “On the Labor of Translation: Locating Frictions and Displacements in Literacy Research in Central Asia”
Speakers: Francisco Roberto da Silva Santos, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Brazil, “Uses of the Verb ‘have’ (ter) in Portuguese Research Reports Written by Letters Undergraduates: A Systemic Functional Study”
Hairenik Aramayo Eliazarian, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, “Analysing Transfer between Academic and Workplace Writing Practices for Law Students”
Katie Fitzpatrick, University of British Columbia, “Formative Feedback: Teaching Academic Writing at a Canadian Research University”
Steffen Guenzel, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Marcela Jarpa, PontiFcia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, “Design of a Model of Situated Writing Practices in Degrees of School of Education for the Creation of an Institutional Policy: Pilot Experience of its National and International Implementation”
Alena Kacmárová, Prešov University, Slovakia, “Writing-for-Translation Stylistics”
Erica Kaufman Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, “Mobilizing Writing-Based Teaching in Transnational Spaces: A Case Study of Institutional Collaborations across Five Countries (2012–2022)”
Asko Kauppinen, Malmö University, Sweden, “The Future Is Now: How Emerging Disruptive Digital Tools Are Transforming PhD Students’ Research Writing”
Gerladine Blanche Kicha, Université Yaoundé I /Yaoundé Cameroun, “Academic Writing in Comprehensive Exams: A Qualitative Study about Writing Processes—Challenges and Coping Strategies among Students Stuyding German as a Second Language in Cameroun”
Julie Kolgjini, Rochester Institute of Technology/RIT Kosovo (Prishtina), “Translanguaging in Kosovo: Disrupting Linguistic Erasure”
Djuddah Leijen, University of Tartu, Estonia, “The Future Is Now: How Emerging Disruptive Digital Tools Are Transforming PhD Students’ Research Writing”
Emmy González Lillo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, “Design of a Model of Situated Writing Practices in Degrees of School of Education for the Creation of an Institutional Policy: Pilot Experience of its National and International Implementation”
Inas Mahfouz, American University of Kuwait, “Teaching Academic Writing: Arab vs American Contexts”
M. Teresa Mateo-Girona, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, “Design of a Model of Situated Writing Practices in Degrees of School of Education for the Creation of an Institutional Policy: Pilot Experience of its National and International Implementation”
Sheren Saad, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, “Implementing Group Writing Sessions for Undergraduates to Promote Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning in Academic Writing: An Exploratory Study”
Anelise Scherer, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, “EAP Teacher Education and Internationalization: Pedagogical Principles, Challenges, and Resources Used by Inservice and Preservice EAP Instructors”
Nicole Wallack, Columbia University, New York, NY, “Mobilizing Writing-Based Teaching in Transnational Spaces: A Case Study of Institutional Collaborations across Five Countries (2012–2022)”
Anna Wärnsby, Malmö University, Schweden, “The Future Is Now: How Emerging Disruptive Digital Tools Are Transforming PhD Students’ Research Writing”
Danielle M. Williams, University of Leeds, UK, “The Effects of Writing Pedagogies on the Self-Efficacy and Employability of Students in the Humanities”
Xiatinghan Xu, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, “Multilingual Scholars’ Choices of Topics, Methodologies, and Theories in Research and Publishing: The Case of Greater China”
Saturday Workshops
2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
SW.01 2024 Handcrafted Rhetorics Workshop
Sponsored by the Handcrafted Rhetorics Standing Group
This workshop brings attendees into a Spokane Public Library Maker Studio to learn about the work librarians and patrons do together, and do some making of our own. See http://www.handcraftedrhetorics.org/ for location information and details.
Cedar Ballroom (Ground Floor Lobby, Davenport Grand)
Chairs: Megan Heise
Kristin Prins, Cal Poly Pomona
First-Year Writing
SW.02 Back to the ABCs: Advocacy, Belonging, and Community within a Modular Framework for First-Year Writing
Keeping in mind the objectives of increasing retention, maintaining student engagement, encouraging student advocacy, and fostering a sense of student belonging in the classroom as well as in their wider social spheres, this workshop offers practical tips for reimagining the first-year composition course in a more cohesive way that emphasizes collaboration, community-building, and innovation.
Room 206 B (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Leader: Jennifer Anderson, Lewis-Clark State College
Speaker: Amy Minervini
First-Year Writing
SW.03 Community and Collaboration in First-Year Writing Classes
As community and rapport are essential to both giving and receiving critical feedback, this workshop will explore various methods to build community in the writing workshop through collaborative art and writing activities, impromptu group presentations, and no-prep peer review sessions. These activities decentralize the authority in the classroom, emboldening communities and individual voices.
Room 206 C (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Leader: Jonathan Holland, University of Michigan English Department Writing Program
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
SW.04 Cultivating Context-Specific Approaches to Contract Grading
This workshop explores the affordances and tensions of contract grading. Attendees will draft their own contracts with the guidance of facilitators who have developed a spectrum of context-specific approaches. They will rotate through 3 of 5 working groups focused on: implementation, faculty roles, student affective experiences, transfer and genre, and assignments and opportunity structures.
Terrace Room East (Mezzanine, Davenport Grand)
Workshop Facilitators: Lisa Bullard
Anna D’Orazio, University of Cincinnati
Gita DasBender, New York University
Angelique Johnston, Monroe Community College
Michelle McSwiggan-Kelly
Nate Mickelson, New York University
Katherine Daily O’Meara, St. Norbert College
Megan Shea
Mikenna Sims
Sydney Sullivan, University of California, Davis
David Tomkins
Christina Van Houten
Language, Literacy, and Culture
SW.05 Finding Abundance and Combatting Scarcity Mindset in and around Second Language Writing
Sponsored by the Second Language Writing Standing Group
This workshop explores how to promote linguistic inclusion and equity in our professional work, including through program design, curricula/instruction, administration, faculty development, and institutional advocacy and collaboration. We share principles, strategies, resources, and case studies that can inform and inspire attendees to find abundance and resist scarcity mindsets in and around SLW.
Terrace Room West (Mezzanine, Davenport Grand)
Workshop Facilitator: Analeigh Horton, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Chairs: Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College
Wei Xu, University of Arizona
Chair and Roundtable Leader: Xiao Tan, Arizona Western College
Group Leader: Zhaozhe Wang, University of Toronto
Roundtable Leaders: Hidy Basta, Seattle University
Mahasweta Baxipatra, Indiana University Bloomington
Marcela Hebbard, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Xuan Jiang, Florida International University
Jennifer Johnson, Stanford University
Rachael Shapiro, Rowan University
Malavika Shetty, Boston University
Sarah Snyder, Arizona Western College
Mariya Tseptsura, University of Arizona
Missy Watson, CUNY
Soha Youssef, Thomas Jefferson University
Speakers: Jay Jordan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Gail Shuck, Boise State University
Katie Silvester, Indiana University Bloomington
Jennifer Slinkard, Eastern Oregon University
Inclusion and Access
SW.06 Innovations in Writing Placement from Two-Year College Leaders: Designing, Implementing, and Researching Directed Self-Placement and Multiple Measures
Writing assessment has exploded over the last two decades with new models for writing placement, including directed self-placement (DSP), multiple measures (MM), as well as myriad versions of these two approaches. In this workshop, 12 two-year college leaders in placement reform practices will share insights from how their institutions have innovated writing placement practices.
Room 206 D (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Facilitators: Joanne Baird Giordano, Salt Lake Community College
Mya Poe, Northeastern University
Megan Von Bergen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Stacy Wittstock, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Workshop Facilitators and Speakers: Ashlee Brand
Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt, Yakima Valley Community College
Ann Del Principe
Jason Evans
Jamey Gallagher
Jeffrey Klausman
Bridget Kriner
Kris Messer
Jessica Nastal
Sarah Snyder, Arizona Western College
Erin Whittig
Writing Centers (including Writing and Speaking Centers)
SW.07 It’s Not about Getting through the Entire Paper: A Facilitative Pedagogy for Asynchronous Written Feedback Consultations
This workshop lays the foundation for a facilitative pedagogy in asynchronous (written feedback) consultations within a writing center or writing instruction context. Workshop attendees will learn the fundamentals of the pedagogy and will collectively analyze example written-feedback consultations, practice composing their own written-feedback consultations, and debrief in groups.
Room 207 (Upper Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Speaker: Christopher Ervin, Oregon State University
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
SW.08 Question-Based Pedagogy (QBP) as Heuristic and Antiracist: Using QBP to Center Student Knowledge and Student Voices
Informed by a question-based pedagogy (QBP) that promotes writerly agency by teaching students to solicit feedback, participants revise their syllabi, practice six classroom activities, and explore how a QBP lends itself to an antiracist classroom vis-á-vis Inoue’s “deep attending” and Baker-Bell’s concern with suppressing Black students’ language practices.
Room 302 A/B (Lower Level, Spokane Convention Center)
Workshop Leaders: Shannon Baker, California State University, San Marcos/Palomar
Dawn Formo, California State University, San Marcos
Cynthia Headley, California State University, San Marcos
Speaker: Lauren Springer, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, CA
Creative Writing and Publishing
SW.09 Writing Freely against Scarce Time: A Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Sponsored by the Creative Nonfiction Standing Group
Amidst increasing austerity, this workshop creates space for writing teachers to engage in the freedom of writing true. Offering crafted prompts and guided writing time with leading teachers who write nonfiction, the interactive workshop also involves small-group sharing of your writing and larger pedagogical discussion, emphasizing adaptability for a wide range of classes and purposes.
Birch Ballroom (Ground Floor Lobby, Davenport Grand)
Speakers: Andrea Bishop, Harding University
Kristi Girdharry, Babson College
Douglas Hesse, University of Denver
Libby Falk Jones, Berea College
Stacy Kastner
Irene Papoulis
Ania Payne, Kansas State University
Wendy Ryan
Jenny Spinner, Saint Joseph’s University
Christy Zink, George Washington University
