Category: Uncategorized

(Note: These are mostly links to onsite conference hosts, although for 2009 and 2010, the online and online conferences were hosted by the same institution. Links will be added as they become available for the online conferences.)

2023: UC Davis (Carl Whithaus and Kory Lawson Ching)
2022: East Carolina U (Will Banks, Michelle Eble, and Erin Frost)
2020-21: No conference
2019: Michigan State U (Bill Hart-Davidson, Kristin Arola, and Dànielle DeVoss)
2018: George Mason U (Douglas Eyman)
2017: U of Findlay (Elkie Burnside)
2016: St. John Fisher College (Wendi Sierra)
2015: U of Wisconsin, Stout (Daniel Ruefman)
2014: Washington State U (Mike Edwards, Patricia Ericsson, Kristin Arola and Bill Condon)
2013: Frostburg State U (Jill Morris)
2012: North Carolina State U, Raleigh (Susan Miller-Cochran and Wendi Sierra)
2011: U of Michigan (Anne Gere and Naomi Silver)
2010: Purdue U (David Blakesley)
2009: UC–Davis (Carl Whithaus)
2008: U of Georgia (Christy Desmet, Neson Hilton, and Ron Balthazor)
2007: Wayne State U (Jeff Rice, Richard Marback, and Jeff Pruchnik)
2006: Texas Tech U (Rich Rice)
2005: Stanford University (Corinne Arraez)
2004: U of Hawaii and Kapi’olani Community College (Judi Kirkpatrick, Darin Payne and John Zuern)
2003: Purdue U (David Blakesley)
2002: Illinois State U (Ron Fortune and James Kalmbach)
2001: Ball State U (Linda Hanson and Rich Rice)
2000: Texas Women’s U (Dene Grigar, John Barber, and Hugh Burns)
1999: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (Michael Day)
1998: U of Florida (Anthony Rue)
1997: Kapi’olani Community College (Judi Kirkpatrick)
1996: Utah State U (Christine Hult)
1995: U of Texas, El Paso (Evelyn Posey)
1994: U of Missouri, Columbia (Eric Crump)
1993: U of Michigan (Bill Condon)
1992: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (Helen Schwartz, Linda Hanson, and Web Newbold)
1991: U of Southern Mississippi (Rae Schipke)
1990: U of Texas (Fred Kemp, John Slatin, Wayne Butler, and Locke Carter)
1989: U of Minnesota (Geoff Sirc and Trent Batson)
1987-88 No conference
1986: U of Pittsburgh (Glynda Hull)
1985: U of California, Los Angeles (Lisa Gerrard)
1984: U of Minnesota (Donald Ross)
1983: U of Minnesota (Lillian Bridwell-Bowles)

Abstract:

A collection of interwoven visual, oral, and written texts, “Remembering Ghosts and the Rhetoric of Collaboration: A Play and Text for Teachers and Writers” looks at our memories of those teachers and students who come before and after us, as both am critical essay and a play of voices that haunt us.

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Authors:Keith Dorwick, Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and editor of the online journal Technoculture, explores queer studies, drama and other hauntings. These appear as video/audio installations, as critical articles in journals such as Computers and Composition, and The Journal of Bisexuality, and as book chapters in edited collections.

Bob Mayberry is haunted by ghosts of his former self. As the former composition director at four institutions (most recently, Cal State Channel Islands, where he still teaches), he has buried many skeletons in institutional closets. When he enters a classroom, he sees ghosts. As a playwright, he just completed a project that has haunted him for 25 years—a cycle of eight plays about the Donner Party. The ghosts of those unfortunate emigrants whisper to Bob in the dark.

Paul M. Puccio is Associate Professor of English at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. He also serves as dramaturge for 4th Wall Theatre Company. His current research involves memory, ghosts, and narrative structure in musical theatre.

Joonna Smitherman Trapp is the Chair of English and Foreign Languages Department at Waynesburg University. She also co-edits the Journal of Expanded Perspectives on Learning (JAEPL). With a keen interest in the gothic, she is aware of the rhetorical power of ghostly visitors.

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A conversation with Jeffrey M. Ringer, author of “Working With(in) the Logic of the Jeremiad: Responding to the Writing of Evangelical Christian Students” (11:31)

Jeffrey M. Ringer is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he directs the composition program and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric and writing. He is the author of Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse: The Religious Creativity of Evangelical Student Writers (Routledge, 2016). With Mike DePalma, he edited Mapping Christian Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories, which won the Religious Communication Association’s 2015 Book of the Year award.

 

 

 

A conversation with Tara Wood, author of “Cripping Time in the College Composition Classroom.” (8:57)

Tara Wood is an assistant professor of English at Rockford University, where she teaches courses in rhetoric, body studies, and gender. Her work has appeared in several essay collections and journals, including Composition Studies, Open Words: Access and English Studies, Kairos, and JAC. She has been honorably recognized by the Committee on Disability Issues in College Composition, by the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in Rhetoric and Composition, and by Computers and Composition Digital Press.

 

 

 

 

The debut, special issue of CCC Online is available NOW!

“The Turn to Performance”

guest editor: Jenn Fishman