CV: Scholarship
Recent Talks
(Also see Talks, 1985-99)
"Dead Poets and Wonder Boys: Writing Teachers in the Movies." Keynote Address, TYCA West, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2009.
"Rewriting the Textbook Genre." Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Nov 2008.
"The Sites of Writing Instruction." University Writing Program, University of Delaware, Nov 2008.
Teaching with Student Texts." 25th Gribben Lecture. Labette Community College, Parsons, KS, Oct 2008.
Growing Older as a WPA." WPA, Denver, CO, July 2008.
"Dead Poets and Wonder Boys: Writing Teachers in the Movies." The Teacher: Image, Icon, Identity. University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 2008.
"The Critics of Self-Criticism at Duke.” CCCC, New York, NY, March 2007.
“Owning Assessment.” Perlman Center for Teaching and Learning. Carleton College, Northfield, MN, Oct 2006.
"The Gorgon and the Governess: William E. Coles and the Teaching of Writing as a Form of Moral Education.” CCCC, Chicago, IL, March 2006.
“Emerging Keywords in Composition.” Composition Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, March 2006.
“The Names and Places of Writing.” Keynote. Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, San Francisco, Oct 2005.
“Ending Freshman Comp, Beginning Academic Writing.” CCCC, San Francisco, CA, March 2005.
“Teaching Writing Outside the Disciplines, or Learning to Think like a Program.” CCCC, San Antonio, TX, March 2004.
“Revising Amherst: New Approaches to Sequencing.” Writing Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, MN, March 2004.
“Undisciplined Writing: Designing an Independent First-Year Writing Program at Duke University.” Keynote, WPA 2003 Summer Conference, Grand Rapids, MI July 2003.
“Structures of Feeling in Writing Programs.” CCCC, New York, NY, March 2003.
“Revising Critical Pedagogy.” Rhetoric and Composition Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 2002.
“Why Respond Online?” Instructional Technology Showcase, Center For Instructional Technology, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2002.
“Teaching Revision as a Critical Practice.” Carleton College, Northfield, MN, April 2002.
“Public, Material, Circulation: Some New Keywords in Teaching Writing.” University of Maryland, College Park, MD, April 2002.
“Working Outside English: Building an Interdisciplinary Writing Faculty.” CCCC, Chicago, IL, March 2002.
“Beyond Community: From the Social to the Material.” Keynote. CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors. New York, NY, Nov 2001.
“The Moves of Revision.” Undergraduate Writing Program. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT, Oct 2001.
“The Classroom in Theory: A Response to Gary Olson and Min-Zhan Lu.” WPA Conference on Composition in the Twenty-First Century. Miami University, Oxford, OH, Oct 2001.
“Using Revision to Teach Critical Reading.” Keynote. Conference on Critical Thinking, SUNY–Stonybrook, NY, June 2001.
“Reforming Writing at Duke University.” American Association of Higher Education, Washington, DC, March 2001.
“Writing in the Disciplines and the Construction of Composition.” MLA, Washington, DC, Dec 2000.
“The Sites of Composition.” University Writing Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Sept 2000.