Please join us for the The 7th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch and Center for Writing Studies
Graduate Student Symposium
Friday, April 22 Foreign Languages Building 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge)
8:30 am-9:00 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks by Spencer Schaffner
9:00 am-10:15 am: Communities and Spaces for Literacy Education and Rhetorical Agency
Kaia Simon: Fathers Teaching Daughters: Literacy that Changes Family Relationships
Maggie Shelledy: “If It Hadn’t Been for Writing, I Think I Would Have Lost My Mind:” Resilience, Love, and Writing in Prison
Evin Groundwater: The Hegemonic Maintenance of Gaming Rhetorics of Space as White, Masculine, and Male
Chair: Lindsay Rose Russell
10:30 am-11:30 am: Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations, Writing Centers, and Classrooms
Maria Carvajal: Change within the System: Felipe Ortego y Gasca and the National Council of Teachers of English
Logan Middleton: Writing Deafness: Negotiations of Composition, Signing, and Mediated Language
Bruce Kovanen: Writing Centers and the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
Chair: J. David Cisneros
11:45 am-1:15 pm: Lunch at Bevier Cafe
1:30 pm-2:30 pm: Keynote by Kim Hensley Owens, Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University: In Lak’ech, The Chicano Clap, and Fear: A Partial Rhetorical Autopsy of Tucson’s Now-Illegal Ethnic Studies Class
2:45 pm-4:00 pm: Public and Professional Writing
Donovan Bisbee: The Viability of Precedent: Social Movement Discourse and Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Annie Kelvie: Writing in the Religious Professions: A Case Study
Katrina Kennett: Drawing into Relation: Teacher Planning Practices for Classroom Instruction
Chair: Eric Darnell Pritchard
4:15 pm-4:45 pm: Traversing Linguistic, Ideological, and National Boundaries
Tom McNamara & Yu-Kyung Kang
Chair: Kelly Ritter
5:00 pm: Happy Hour at Murphy’s Pub – All Welcome!
A very special thanks to:
Spencer Schaffner
Symposium Planning Committee: Maria Carvajal and Katherine Flowers
Faculty Chairs: Lindsay Rose Russell, J. David Cisneros, Eric Darnell Pritchard, and Kelly Ritter
