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This is a representative--but incomplete--list of conference presentations, publications, and similar scholarly work by students in the Rhetoric & Writing Ph.D. Program. The listing will be updated from time to time as students send new items. (Alumni publications and professional activities are reported in the program’s online newsletter Rhetoric & Writing Notes.)

Amira Akl (2007)
“Understanding the Unfair Portrayal of Arab/Muslim Women in American Media: Oppressed Appendages to Terrorists or What?” NWSA: National Women’s Studies Association Conference. November 2009. Atlanta, GA.

“Exploring Arab-American Women’s’ Interactions with Technology: Negotiating Old Arguments and Creating New Cultural Values.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. October 2009. Michigan State University.

“Understanding Arab and Arab-American Students' Experiences in Writing with Technology.” NCTE Conference. November 2008. San Antonio, TX.

“Access to Technology for Arab-American Women: the Struggle with Hyphenatedness.” Watson Conference. October 2008. Louisville, Kentucky.

“Culture vs. Technology: Implications for Arab-Americans.” The SouthWest/Texas Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association 29^th Annual Conference. February 2008. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“Finding Their Place: Case Study Research on Arab and Arab-American Students Engaged in U.S. Writing Courses.” CCCC: Conference for College Composition and Communication. March 2007. New York, New York.

BGSU Presidential Scholarship Award 2007-2009

NCTE Cultural Diversity Grant in 2008

Stephanie Anderson (2006)
“The Teacher with the Black Dog: How One Service Dog Changed the Way I Teach Writing.” Pedadoggy, eds. Bianca Falbo and Patricia Donahue. (forthcoming)

“Service Learning and the Scholarship of Engagement,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“The Language Arts Project: Doing Oral History in the English Classroom,” presented at the University of Dayton Bergamo Conference, Dayton, OH, October 2006.

Emily J. Beard (2007)
“Speaking Revision: Expanding the Ways We Practice the Revision Process," accepted for presentation with panel members Christine Garbett and Dave McClure at the CCCC Computer Connection, Louisville, KY: March 2010. 

Co-director and instructor, “The Digital Mirror,” an annual, three-day residential computer camp for girls in grades 6-8. August 2009.  

“Composing Spaces: Reexamining the Space Where Students Write,” co-presented with Brittany Cottrill and Christine Garbett at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 11-14, 2009.

"From Computers to Pens: Developing Writing in Composition," Teaching Demonstration with Suzan Aiken, Christine Garbett, and David McClure at the 2008 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 21, 2008.

Beth Church
“Epideictic Without the Praise: A Heuristic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Blame,” accepted for presentation at the Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, March 2010

“A Time of Crisis, A Time of Blame? A Heuristic Model for Analyzing Rhetoric that Criticizes – and Builds Community,” presented at the Michigan College English Association fall conference, Eastern Michigan University, October 2009

“Cyborg in the City: Reclaiming the Individual through Rhetoric,” presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Wayne State University, May 2007

Toby Coley (2007)
“Don't Make Waves: Rhetorics of Restraint in the Professionalization of Evangelical Christian Graduate Students.” 2009 CCCC, San Francisco, CA: March, 2009.

“Utopic Horizons or Pedagogical Challenges.” NCTE, San Antonio, Texas, November 22-25, 2008.

“Author Anonymous: Gaining Identity through Anonymity in the Wiki.” The Seventh Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, October 16-18, 2008.

“Chronological Dependence.” Rhetoric Review 27.3 (2008): 325-27.

“A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms,” presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, GA, May 2008.

"Meeting Students on Their Own Literacy Turf.” College English Association of Ohio Spring 2008 Conference. Columbus, Ohio, April 25, 2008.

“Low-Stakes Writing with WordPress Blogs,” presented at the CCCC Computer Connection, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Why Use Wikis in the Teaching of Writing,” presented at the Jacobson Symposium at Crieghton University, Omaha, NE, March 2008.

Review of Multiliteracies for a Digital Age by Stuart Selber in Computers and Composition Online (Spring 2007). http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/reviews/Multiliteracies/MLDAReview.html.

“Rhetorical Audience in the Wiki Environment” presented at Computers and Writing Online, February 2008.

“Challenges to Wiki Integration in the Writing (and General Ed) Classroom,” presented at the Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2007.

“Teachnology and Technological Literacy: How Rhetoric and the Wiki Affect Pedagogy,” presented at the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA, October 2007. 

Brittany Cottrill (2006)
Co-director and instructor, “The Digital Mirror,” an annual, three-day residential computer camp for girls in grades 6-8. August 2009.  

"Teaching Writing in New Spaces: Design, Access, and Application in the Technology-Equipped Classroom" panel presented with Bret Bowers, Vanessa Cozza, and Katherine Fredlund at the College English Association, Pittsburgh, PA. March 2009.

"Composing Spaces: Reexamining the Spaces Where Students Write," panel presented with Emily J. Beard and Christine Garbett at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 2009.

"Alternative Surfing: Riding the Wave of Web 2.0 Tools to Produce, Connect, and Reflect" co-presented with Vanessa Cozza at the CCCC Computer Connection, San Francisco, CA. March 2009.

Review of Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World by Nancy Welch in College English Association Forum. 37.2: (Summer/Fall 2008) <http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/372cottrill.htm>.

"Producing, Connecting, and Reflecting on New Technology: Incorporating and Analyzing Blogs, Social Networks, and Visual Media in the Writing Classroom" classroom demonstration co-presented with Vanessa Cozza. The National Council of Teachers of English Conference, San Antonio, TX. November 2008.

"'Facing' A New Audience: Understanding Audience Awareness Through Facebook," presented at 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY. October 2008.

"E-Portfolio Alternatives: Blogs as Academic Showcases," presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, GA. May 2008.

"Virtual Realities: Writing the Self From Commonplace Books to Facebook," presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA. April 2008.

"Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships Between Assessment Tools and Program Identities," co-presented workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA. April 2008.

"Blogging to Create Gender Safer Spaces in the Writing Classroom," presented at Southwest Texas PCA/ACA, Albuquerque, NM. February 2008.

"'But it works for them!': WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization," co-presented with Elizabeth Fleitz and Abbey Kanzig at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, OH. November 2007.

"Graduate Connections: Get the Most from Your Assistantship," co-presented with Stephanie Anderson at BGSU GradSTEP, Bowling Green, OH. August 2007.

"Blogs in the Classroom: A Textual Analysis of Internet Dialects in the Composition Classroom," presented at the CCCC Computer Connection, New York City, NY. March 2007.

Vanessa Cozza (2007)
Review of Teaching Writing in Thirdspaces: The Studio Approach. Rhonda C. Grego and Nancy S. Thompson. Basic Writing e-Journal 7.1 (Fall 2008). http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWe/7.1-10.html

“Normalizing Discourses in the Academy: Problems with Teaching Genre Writing to First-Year Students.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Louisville, KY (November 2008).

“The Healing Rhetorician: An Analysis of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera through Stanley Fish’s ‘Rhetoric’,” presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2008.

Review of Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education, edited by Linda S. Bergmann and Edith M. Baker, The CEA Forum 37.1 (Winter/Spring 2008) http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/371cozza.htm

Erin Dietel McLaughlin (2005)
“Remediating Democracy: Participation, Parody and the Vernacular Rhetorics of Web 2.0." Computers and Composition Online. Special Edition: Web 2.0 and Writing (Fall 2009).

 Co-Presenter, “Community Outreach and the Digital Mirror Computer Camp: Shifting Our Focus as Technofeminist Literacy Educators.” National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 21, 2008.

Presenter, “Composing Vernacular Rhetorics: New Media Parody and the CNN-YouTube Debates,” Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, October 17, 2008.

Presenter, “Cyber Sex Ed: Social Networking Sites & Sex Education for Young Women,” The Women’s Center Brown Bag Luncheon Series, Bowling Green State University, September 17, 2008.

Participant, service-learning project with Adelante, a Latino/a service and advocacy organization in Toledo.  Researched and presented possibilities for improving sexual education through the use of social networking sites and presented findings to Adelante to assist in developing sexual health programming. Spring 2008-present.

Co-director and instructor, “The Digital Mirror,” an annual, three-day residential computer camp for girls in grades 6-8.  August 8-11, 2007 and August 6-9, 2008.  The 2009 camp is currently under development.

Recipient, Outstanding Graduate Student Award for 2008.  Awarded April 25, 2008.

Recipient, Katzner Award for Graduate Research and Development, April 2008.

Co-author (with Kristine Blair, Jen Almjeld, and Meredith Graupner). “The Digital Mirror Computer Camp for Girls.”  American Association of University Women Community Action Grant.  Awarded April, 2008.

Presenter, “From Private to Public: Nineteenth Century Ladies’ Readers and the Negotiation of Gendered Space,” Women’s Studies Research Symposium, Bowling Green State University, April 18, 2008.

Co-presenter, “Reflections on ‘The Digital Mirror’: Technology Camps as Institutional Outreach,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 4, 2008.

Co-presenter, “Pushing Limits: Engaging Young Cyborg Women,” presented as part of a panel entitled “The Girl in the Mirror,” Battleground States Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference, Bowling Green State University, February 22, 2008.

“Seeing Beyond the Academy: Technology, Community, and Alternate Literacies in the Digital Mirror Project,” presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2008.

Participant in the Research Network at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, May 2008.

"YouTube University: Participatory Rhetoric, Web 2.0, and the Composition Classroom," presented at Computers and Writing Online, February 2008.

“Pushing Limits: Engaging Young Cyborg Women,” co-presented with Jen Almjeld at the Battleground States Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference, Bowling Green, OH, February 2008.

Review of Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon, by Kathleen Blake Yancey in Computers & Composition Online (Spring 2008).

“Seeing Beyond the Academy: Technology, Community, and Alternate Literacies in the Digital Mirror Project,” co-presented with Kristine Blair, Jen Almjeld, and Meredith Graupner at the BGSU Research Conference, Bowling Green, OH, November 2007.

Joe Erickson (2007)
"Reconciling Author Intention and Reader Expectation in the Space of Doctoral Program Websites." 2009 Expanding Literacy Studies Conference, Columbus, OH: March 2009.

"Some Assembly Required: Collaborative Document Production Practices for Distributed Workplaces." 2009 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, San Francisco, CA: March 2009.

"New Media and Multi-modality: An Interview with Chris Anson." with Toby Coley. Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2009.

"A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms" with Toby Coley, Eden Leone, Ruiji Zhao, Jeremy Schnieder, and Kris Blair. Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2009.

“Hacking the Schools: Subverting Expectations in Nineteenth Century American Composition Studies.” 2009 CCCC Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA:April 2009.

 “Toward a New Media Pedagogy for New Media Writing.” 2008 National Council of Teachers of English Convention, San Antonio, TX:November 2008.

“Multi-Modal and Visual Literacy in the Composition Classroom.” Roundtable Participant, 2008 National Council of Teachers of English Convention. San Antonio, TX: November 2008.

 “New Specs for Hypertext: Evaluating New Work in Composition Classrooms.” The Seventh Biannual Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY:October 2008.

“A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms,” co-facilitator of a roundtable discussion at the Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, GA, May 2008.

Review of Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines by Mark Poster Journal of Technology and Culture (April 2008).

“From Cobwebs to CompWebs: Toward a Proactive Virtual Presence for Composition Studies,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Texas American and Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2008.

Review of Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America by Martin Kevorkian. Journal of Technology and Culture (January 2008).

Review of Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War by Tom Wheeler Journal of Technology and Culture (October 2007).

Christine Garbett (2007)
“Technology Sharing: Students Forming a Computer Lab," accepted for presentation with panel members Emily J. Beard and Dave McClure at the CCCC Computer Connection, Louisville, KY: March 2010. 

Co-director and instructor, “The Digital Mirror,” an annual, three-day residential computer camp for girls in grades 6-8. August 2009.  

“Composing Spaces: Reexamining the Space Where Students Write,”co-presented with Brittany Cottrill and Emily J. Beard at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco,
CA, March 11-14, 2009.

"From Computers to Pens: Developing Writing in Composition," Teaching Demonstration with Suzan Aiken, Emily J. Beard, and David McClure at the 2008 National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference,
San Antonio, Texas, November 21, 2008.

Meredith Graupner Hurley (2006)
“Looking into the Digital Mirror: Reflections on a Computer Camp for Girls by Girls,” co-authored chapter with Erin Dietel-McLaughlin and Kristine Blair in Girl Wide Web 2.0: Revisiting Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity. Forthcoming.

Remediating Knowledge-Making Spaces in the Graduate Curriculum: Developing and Sustaining Multimodal Teaching and Research,” co-authored with Lee Nickoson-Massey and Kristine Blair, in Computers and Composition 26.1 (2009): 13-23.

“Seeing Beyond the Academy: Technology, Community, and Alternate Literacies in the Digital Mirror Project,” co-presented with Jen Almjeld, Kristine Blair, Erin Dietel- McLaughlin, and Julie Platt at the Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA, May 2008.

“Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships between Assessment Tools and Program Identities,” a co-presented workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Single Fathers in the Kitchen: Masculinizing a Space for Compassionate Caregivers,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Clancy Ratliff: Blogger, Scholar…Blogger-Scholar,” co-authored with Christine Denecker Computers and Composition Online Spring 2008.

“Debunking Instant Messenger Myths: Meeting Student Needs in a Digital Age,” Language Arts Journal of Michigan 23.1 Fall/Winter 2007-08: 20-24.

“Seeing Beyond the Academy: Technology, Community, and Alternate Literacies in the Digital Mirror Project,” co-presented with Jen Almjeld, Kristine Blair, and Erin Dietel- McLaughlin at the BGSU Research Conference, Bowling Green, OH, November 2007.

“Timely or Untimely? Moving Beyond the Binary in the Kairos of Scholarly Weblogs,” presented at the Penn State Conference on Rhetorics and Technologies, State College, PA, July 2007.

“Instant Messenger in the Composition Classroom: Extending Conversations of CMC,” presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2007.

Review of Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web by Jonathan Alexander in Computers and Composition Online Spring 2007.

“LOL (Learning On-Line): Real Time Virtual Conferencing,” presented at the College English Association of Ohio Fall Conference, Bowling Green, OH, October 2006.

Abbey Kanzig (2006)
“Disciplined to Conform, Punished by Marginalization: Critical Pedagogy as a Response to Blind Obedience and Invisible Oppression.” 60th annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, March 2009.

“Configuring Computer Classrooms: Spaces that Silence or Speak.” Seventh Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference, University of Louisville, Oct. 2008.

“Un-Corseting Women: Usurping Patriarchy,” 59th annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2008.

Workshop: “Writing Assessment.” Co-facilitator. 59th annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2008.

Chair and co-presenter, “‘But it works for them!’: WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization.” Co-Presented with Brittany Cottrill and Elizabeth Fleitz. Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, OH. Nov. 2007.

“Developing Sustainable Social Constructionist Pedagogy: A Lesson Plan from Prussian Blue and Propaganda to Indoctrination” for the Panel Presentation “An Assignment’s Journey: From the Practicum to the Classroom.” The Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Arizona St. U, Tempe, Oct. 2007.

“Validating the Vernacular:  (Re)Placing the Displaced Dialects” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Calgary, AB, Oct.2007.

 "Non-Formulaic Writing for the English Curriculum.” Co-presented with Bill Thelin and Kara Taczak. Future of English Studies, U of Illinois, Springfield, Oct. 2007.

"An Apology for Directive Instruction in the Writing Center: Empowering the Tutor" The 29th East Central Writing Centers Association Conference, Bowling Green State U. March 2007.

“Validating the Vernacular:  Making the Case for the Multidialectal Classroom” Southwest Texas/Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2007.

“Painful Revelations: When Students Write for Catharsis.” College English Association of Ohio, Ohio Dominican, April 2006.

“Licentious Ladies of London: Patriarchal Power and the Ruin of Eighteenth-Century Women.” College English Association of Ohio, Ohio Dominican, April 2006.

“Forced to Fornicate? The Social Subjugation of the Eighteenth-Century Female.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Oakland University, MI. March 2006.

Bobby James Kuechenmeister (2007)
"Reading Comics Rhetorically: Orality, Literacy, and Hybridity in Comic Narratives." Scan: Journal of Arts Media Culture (Accepted).

Book Review. "The Epic in Film: From Myth to Blockbuster." Journal of Popular Culture (Forthcoming).

"Composing in Castlevania: A Process Look at Playing Video Games." CCCC Annual Convention. San Francisco, 2009.

Exhibit Review. "The Golden Age of American Political Cartooning." International Journal of Comic Art 10.1 (2008): 587-588.

"Composing in Second Life: Avatars, Multiliteracies, and Remediations." Thomas R. Watson Biennial Conference. Louisville, 2008.

Eden Leone (2007)
Review of An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality by Jill Fields in the Journal of Popular Culture, forthcoming.

“House: Exploring How Technology Deals with Society’s Ills.” PCA/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2008.

Review of The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Steven Levy in The Journal of Popular Culture (2007) 40:6.

Review of Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers With Cancer by Linda Blachman in The International Journal of Listening (2007) 21:2.

Heather E. Pristash (2006)
"The Needle as the Pen: Intentionality, Needlework, and the Production of Alternate Discourses of Power," co-authored with Sue Carter Wood and Inez Schaechterle. Women and Things: The Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1650-1950 edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Tobin Ashgate Publishing Company (forthcoming).

“Craftivism and Protest Knitting,” presented at the North American Conference on Radicalism, Lansing, MI, January 2007.

“Knit Two Together: Knitblogs, Knitalongs, and a Digital Culture of Material Artifacts,” presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2007.

“Reclaiming Women’s Work: Feminism and Protest Knitting,” invited presentation as part of the Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Brown Bag Series, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, November 2007.

Jeremy Schnieder (2006)
“And the Crowd Goes Wild: Fan Participation as Epideictic Rhetoric” Virtual presentation for The International Conference on Sport and Society; Vancouver, Canada, March 8-10, 2010. 
“Placing One Program's Assessment and Its Effects on a Novice Teacher”Qualitative Research Network; San Francisco, California, March 10, 2009.

 “Waste Not, Want More: Efficiency and the Development of Writing Assessment” Conference on College Composition and Communication; San Francisco, California, March 11-14, 2009.

“A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms,” co-presented with Kristine Blair, Toby Coley, Ruijie Zhao, Joe Erickson, and Eden Leone, at the Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, GA, May 2008.

“Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships between Assessment Tools and Program Identity,” a co-presented workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Assessing Assessment with Third Generation Activity Theory,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Using Oral History in the Composition Classroom,” co-presented with Elizabeth Schnieder at the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Bochum, Germany, June 2007.

“Collaborative Instruction in the Composition Classroom: Innovation by Design,” co-presented with Andrea Cleaves at the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Bochum, Germany, June 2007.

“Podcasting Across Borders,” co-presented with Barbara Toth at the BGSU Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Fair, Bowling Green, OH, Spring 2007.

“Using the Tools You Have: One Writing Center 's Process of Creation,” presented at the East Central Writing Centers Association Conference, Bowling Green, OH, 2007.

“Collaborative Instruction in the Composition Classroom: Innovation by Design,” presented at a Forum on Composition: Bowling Green State University & Mid-American Review; Bowling Green, OH, 2006.

Yvonne Schultz (2005)
Review of The Garden at Night: Burnout & Breakdown in the Teaching Life by Mary Rose O'Reilley CEA Forum. Winter/Spring 2006.

“Finding Funky Faith: Using Anne Lamott’s Narratives to Help Students Craft Their Own Spiritual Journeys,” presented at the Conference on Christianity and Literature - Mideast Region, Cedarville, OH, Spring 2006.

Bethany Noelle Snyder-Morse (2005)
“Narrative and Place,” presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Nashville, TN, November 2006.

“Re-envisioning Re-vision,” presented at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Ann Arbor, MI, November 2006.

"Creating and Preserving the Past Through Narrative," presented at the College English Association of Ohio - Spring Conference, Columbus, OH, April 2006.

Ruijie Zhao (2006)
“A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms” Roundtable at Computers and Writing 2008 The University of Georgia, Athens. GA. May 21-25, 2008

“Incorporating Open Source Technology in a Composition Class Acceptance, Revision, and Assessment.” Computers and Writing 2008 The University of Georgia, Athens.  GA. May 21-25, 2008.

“Second Life Writing Center @ Bowling Green State University: Reflecting an Understanding of Real-Life Learning”  East Central Writing Center Association April 11-12, 2008.

“Realities Constructed and Changed through Huxian Peasant Paintings.” CCCC Convention New Orleans, April 2-5, 2008

“Rubrics as Localized Realities:  Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships Between Assessment Tools and Program Identities” worskshop at CCCC Convention New Orleans, April 2-5, 2008.

“Use of Web2.0 in a College Composition Class," for presentation at the 2008  EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference in Chicago, Illinois, March 17-19, 2008.

“Saves Love for Another Time: Changed Space and Time in Instant Messaging,” presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2006.

“Blogging Fame, Constructing and Contending Identity on Blog,” presented at the Conference of International Association for International Communication Studies, Harbin, China, June 2007.

"'Miss Conduct' Books from Christine de Pisan and Pan Chao," presented at the Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 2007.

Jen Almjeld (2008)
"Reconceptualizing the Subject: Ethics, Subjects, and the Possibility of Constructing and Interpreting Identity Through Online Discourse," co-presented with Sergey Rybas at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, NY, March 2007.

"(Sub)Urban Sprawl. MySpace as Big City Adventure on the Web," presented at Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2007.

“Multimodal Methods for Multimodal Literacies: Establishing a Techno- Feminist Research Identity," co-presented with Kristine Blair at the Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, State College, PA, July 2007.

"Redefining Research to Expand Our Scholarly Reach," co-presented with Kristine Blair at the Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 2007.

Florence Bacabac (2008)
Paper Presentation on "Re-mapping the Complex Terrain of Contemporary Pedagogies Back to Isocrates" at the 7th Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, 9 October 2009, East Lansing, Michigan.
Panel Presentation with Dr. Cheri Crenshaw and Dr. Diane Albertini on "Can You Hear Me Now? Collaborative CMC Practices in Hybrid and Online Classes: Using Blackboard Discussions, Wimba, and CamStudio" at the Association for Business Communication 74th Annual Convention, 5 November 2009, Portsmouth, VA.
Paper Presentation on "'We're in this together': Reviewing Collaborative Writing and E-Dialogues in Advanced Composition" at the 61st Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 17-20 March 2010, Louisville, Kentucky.

“Professional Identity and Development: Realities in Digital Composing,” co-presented with Kristine Blair, Liz Monske, Lanette Cadle, Jen Almjeld, Matt Barton, David Gross, Chris Harris, Dorothy Robbins, and Robin Goertz at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“On Critical Pedagogy and Civic Discourse: Articulating Means of Participation in the Classroom,” presented at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 2007.

“From Cyberspace to Print: Intersecting Invention Practices and Academic Writing,” presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2007.

“Technology-Based Grammar Mini-Lesson for ESL Composition Classes: A New Beginning,” presented at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Nashville, TN, November 2006.

“Discourse Mediation through Narratives: Exploring Possibilities in Advanced Composition Classrooms,” presented at the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY, October 2006.

“Using Technology-Based Mini-Lessons in the ESL Classroom: An Experimental Research Design,” presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing, West Lafayette, IN, June 2006.

"'Sizing up' Conduct Book Rhetoric for Women: Conduct Rhetors as Instigators of Change or Transcribers of the Status Quo?" presented at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Houghton, MI, October 2005.

“Utilizing Descriptive Video Service (DVS) Media in the ESL Classroom,” co-presented with Sheri Wells-Jensen and Mary Clancy at the Ohio TESOL Fall Conference, Columbus, OH, November 2004.

Elizabeth Fleitz (2005)
“(Assessing) Writing without Teachers: A Philosophy of Writing Assessment,” accepted for presentation at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 11-14, 2009.

“Cooking Codes: Cookbook Discourses as Women’s Rhetorical Practices,” accepted for workshop participation at the Feminist Rhetorics for Social Justice Post-Symposium Workshop, Syracuse, NY, October 25, 2008.

Panel Chair, “Technology, Rhetoric, and Political Participation,” Thomas J. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 6-8, 2008.

Co-Presenter with Bobby Kuechenmeister, “How to Get Your Students To Talk: Techniques for Classroom Discussion,” GradSTEP (graduate student orientation) session, Bowling Green State University, August 21, 2008.

Non-Service Fellowship, August 2008-August 2009.

“The Grammar of Abortion: A Pentadic Analysis of Pro-Choice Rhetoric,” presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2008.

“Disciplined Bodies: Cookbooks, Standardization, and the Print Revolution in the Victorian Era,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying the Relationships Between Writing Assessment Tools and Program Identities,” a co-presented workshop at the Conference on College Composition and
Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Of Smug Marrieds (ugh) and Singletons (v.v.g.): Bridget Jones’s Subversive Grammar and the Constraints of Discourse,” presented at the Popular Culture Association National Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.

University Bookstore Grant Award for Professional Development, January 2008.

“‘But It Works For Them!’: WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization,” co-presented with Brittany Cottrill and Abbey Kanzig at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 2007.

Review of Funeral Festivals in America : Rituals for the Living by Jacqueline S. Thursby Journal of Popular Culture 40(5) (October 2007): 887-88.

“The Standardized Rhetoric of Fannie Farmer in Victorian Era Cookbooks,” presented at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 2007.

“Profits over Process: AP English and the Decline of Freshman Composition,” CEA Forum 36(1) (Winter/Spring 2007) http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/361index.htm.

Charles E. Shanklin Award for Research Excellence, May 2007. Arts and Humanities Division, for “The Grammar of Abortion: A Pentadic Analysis of Pro-Choice Rhetoric.”

“Writers at Work in Cyberspace: The Writing Center on LiveJournal,” presented at the East Central Writing Center Association Conference, Bowling Green, OH, March 2007.

“Art Spiegelman’s Disruptive Humor: Comics in Response to 9/11” Battleground States: Scholarship in Contemporary America. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2007. 37-47.

Robert Christopher Graves (2005)
Eicke, Emily, Matt Seimears, and Robert Graves. _ From Theory to Practice: An Effective Guide to Lesson Planning_. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2009. (forthcoming)
Eicke, Emily, Matt Seimears, and Robert Graves. _Cue-Up and Unpack: Effectively Teaching Science Methods_. 2nd ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2010. (forthcoming)
The first one goes to press in a few weeks, the second goes to press next summer. Robert also recently had a poetry publication and several newspaper publications including:
The Prairie Is Divine.” _Prairie Poetry_. November, 2008. http://www.prairiepoetry.com/poetry08/poems/gravesr1.html
“Big 12 North Preview: The Colorado Buffalo” _Texas Star Tribune_. Sept. 2, 2008.
“Big 12 North Preview: Iowa State Cyclones” _Texas Star Tribune_. Sept. 2, 2008.
“Big 12 North Preview: The Kansas Jayhawks” _Texas Star Tribune_. Sept. 2, 2008.
“Big 12 North Preview: The K-State Wildcats” _Texas Star Tribune_. Sept. 2, 2008.
“Big 12 North Preview: The Missouri Tigers” _Texas Star Tribune_. Sept. 2, 2008.
“Big 12 North Preview: The Nebraska Cornhuskers” _Texas Star Tribune_. Sept. 2, 2008 .
"Just Guessing." _The Texas Star Tribune_. Sept. 17, 2008.

Erin Knoche Laverick (2004)
“A Festive Occasion: Writing for an Audience” The Essential Teacher (forthcoming).
“No Words but Her Words: Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit,” presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2008.
“No Words but Her Words: Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit,” presented at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 2007.
“Merging Spaces in the L2 Composition Classroom,” presented at the Conference of College Composition and Communication, New York City, NY, March 2007.
“Feminist Pedagogies and Spaces in L2 Composition Classrooms.” The Newsletter of TESOL’s Second Language Writing Interest Section 1.2 (September 2006). http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/docs/7000/6944.html?nid=4116
“Ahead of her Time: Hildegard of Bingen and Medieval Images of Writing the Body,” presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Memphis, TN, May 2006.
“Creating Connections to Christ: Pre-feminist Writings of Medieval and Renaissance Women,” presented at the Marquette University Women’s Studies Program Conference, Milwaukee, WI, March 2006.
“Grammar(s) in the Context of Writing a Personal Narrative,” presented at the Michigan Academy of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, Rochester, MI, March 2006.
“Second Language Learns in Writing Centers,” presented at the Michigan Academy of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, Ypsilanti, MI, March 2005.
“Teaching Culture through Film and Literature,” presented at the Ohio TESOL Conference, Columbus, OH, November 2003.

Ann-Gee Lee (2004)
“Following the Script: An Examination of the Materiality of Nushu as Civic Discourse,” presented at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 2007.
“Caesuras through the Centuries: How Examinations of Silence Can Blur the Line between Politics and Poetics,” presented at the Battleground States Conference: Intersections Between Poetics and Politics, Bowling Green, OH, March 2007.Composition and Communication, New York City, NY, March 2007.
"Question of the Century: What More Can Writing Centers Do?” presented at the East Central Writing Centers Association Conference, Bowling Green, OH, March 2007.

Sergey Rybas (2008)
“Reconceptualizing the Subject: Ethics, Subjects and the Possibility of Constructing Identity through Online Discourse,” co-presented with Jen Almjeld at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, NY, March 2007.
“In Private: Exploring Agency in an Online Composition Class,” presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2007.
“Contesting the Panopticon Metaphor: Online Education and Subjectivation of the Online User,” presented at the Conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2007.
“Reclaiming the Personal: Bringing Blogs to a Hybrid Composition Class,” presented at the Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2006.
“Does It Take a Class Design to Rock: The Dreams, the Perils, and the Available Means for effective Pedagogies in Computer-Supported Composition Classrooms,” presented at the College English Association of Ohio - Fall Conference, Bowling Green, OH, October 2006.
“Research in New Media: Ethical Considerations for Removed Subjects,” co-presented with Jen Almjeld at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 2006.
“Good and Usable for All? Consideration of Usability of an Online Tutorial for Diverse Audiences,” presented at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference - Teaching Division, Chicago, IL, March 2006.
“Toward a Practical Objective-Driven Blog: A Case Study,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2006.

James Schirmer (2008)
"The Personal as Public: Identity Construction/Fragmentation Online" The Computer Culture Reader edited by Judd Ruggill (forthcoming).

"Lost in San Andreas," co-presented with Kristine Blair, Sergey Rybas, and Jen Almjeld at the Computers and Writing Conference, Detroit, MI, May 2007.

“Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?: Defining and Differing Identity Online,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2006.

Review of Technology and English Studies edited by James Inman and Beth L. Hewett. Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2006.