CV: Scholarship

Talks, 1985-99

(Also see Recent Talks)

 

“Towards a New Class Consciousness in Composition.” English Dept, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, April 1999.

“The Imaginary of the Braddock Awards.” CCCC, Atlanta, GA, March 1999.

“Comp Droids and Boss Compositionists.” Plenary Talk. Research Network, CCCC, Atlanta, GA, March 1999.

“Reforming the Workplace in Composition.” MLA, San Francisco, CA, Dec 1998.

“Counter-Histories of Composition.” Graduate Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 1998.

“Copyright and Consent: Issues in Reproducing Student Writing.” CCCC, Chicago, IL, April 1998.

“The Anxious Governess: Social Class and the Teaching of Writing.” NCTE, Detroit, MI, Nov 1997.

“Lost in the Supermarket: Students as Cultural Critics.” Keynote. TYCA West, Tucson, AZ, Oct 1997.

“Using Knowledge: Teaching Critical Reading as Revision.” Plenary Address. Wyoming Conference on English. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, June 1997.

“Students as Cultural Critics.” CCCC, Phoenix, AZ, March 1997.

“Students as Critics of the Culture of Schooling.” CCCC, Milwaukee, WI, March 1996.

“Research, Teaching, Public Argument.” Plenary Talk. Research Network, CCCC, Washington, DC, March 1995.

“Students as Intellectuals.” CCCC, Washington, DC, March 1995.

“Contact and Negotiation: The New Politics of Teaching Writing.” Featured Speaker, Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University Park, PA, July 1994.

“Voices From Within and Without: Reclaiming the Legacies of Expressivism.” Keynote. Curriculum Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, April 1994.

“Approaching Community.” CCCC, Nashville, TN, March 1994.

“Superior Training, Superior Mental Attitude: Reforming Basic Writing.” Rhetoric and Composition Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, March 1994.

“Basic Writing and Institutional Change.” Keynote, Basic Skills Conference, CUNY, New York, NY, Nov 1993.

“Rhetorics of Reform in English Studies.” Symposium on Rhetorics for English, Society for Critical Exchange, University of Toledo, OH, May 1993.

“Ventriloquism and Quotation.” CCCC, San Diego, CA, April 1993.

“Accidental Communities.” CCCC, Cincinnati, March 1992.

“Imagining Basic Writers as Intellectuals.” Conference on Basic Writing, College Park, MD, Oct 1992.

“Reading the Right Thing.” Keynote. Iowa Council of Teachers of English, Des Moines, IA, Oct 1991.

“Basic Writing and Popular Culture.” CCCC, Boston, MA, March 1991.

“Misreading Movies.” NCTE, Seattle, WA, Nov 1990.

“Growth, Initiation, and Conflict.” CCCC, Chicago, IL, March 1990.

“The Rhetoric of Composition.” CCCC, Chicago, IL, March 1990.

“After Dartmouth: From Growth to Criticism.” NCTE, Baltimore, MD, Nov 1989.

“Three Metaphors for Basic Writing.” Conference on Basic Writing, St. Louis, MO, Nov 1989.

“From Dartmouth to Wye.” Keynote. Indiana University of PA Graduate Colloquium, Indiana, PA, May 1989.

“Integrating Theory and Practice in a Graduate Teaching Seminar.” CCCC, Seattle, WA, 1989.

“Teaching Writing as Cultural Criticism.” CCCC, Seattle, WA, 1989.

“Community in Composition.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, College Park, PA, July 1988.

“Raymond Williams and the Idea of Community.” CCCC, St. Louis, MO, March 1988.

“Britton, Harding, and the Spectator as Theorist.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, College Park, PA, July 1987

“Versions of Community.” CCCC, Atlanta, GA, March 1987.

“Egocentrism and Difference.” CCCC, Atlanta, GA, March 1987.

“Rethinking the Pedagogy of Problem-Solving.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, College Park, PA, July 1986.

“Linking Theories of Composing and Reading: William Coles and Roland Barthes.” CCCC, Minneapolis, MN, March 1985.