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Dissertations by Program Graduates 

The Rhetoric & Writing PhD Program values and encourages collaboration. This is a representative--but incomplete--list of collaborative conference presentations, publications, and other work by students and faculty. The listing will be updated from time to time.

Rick Gebhardt, Heather Fester, and Stephanie Anderson worked developed a full-session panel accepted for the 2008 CCCC. The panel title was Scholarship of Engagement: A Changing Reality for Composition and Rhetoric? Here are the speakers and their titles: Heather Fester, "Scholarship of Engagement and the Field of Composition and Rhetoric," Richard Gebhardt, "Composition Scholarship and the Scholarship of Engagement," and Stephanie Anderson, "Service Learning and the Scholarship of Engagement."

Lee Anne Nickoson-Massey, Kristine Blair, and Meredith Graupner collaborated in a conference presentation for Watson 2008 with the title: “Remediating Knowledge-Making Spaces in the Graduate Curriculum: Developing and Sustaining Multimodal Teaching and Research.”

Lee Anne Nickoson-Massey, Donna-Nelson-Beene, Brittany Cottrill, Elizabeth Fleitz, Meredith Graupner, Abbey Kanzig, Jeremy Schnieder, and Ruijie Zhao collaborated for a half-day workshop at 2008 CCCC.  The workshop was titled “Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships Between Assessment Tools and Program Identities."

Kristine Blair, Lee Anne Nickoson-Massey, and Meredith Graupner collaborated on an article titled “Remediating Knowledge-Making Spaces in the Graduate Curriculum: Developing and Sustaining Multimodal Teaching and Research" for a Computers & Composition Special Issue: Computers & Composition (The Future of Graduate Education in the New American University: Intersections between Technologies and Literacies). Guest Ed. Peter Goggin and Patricia Webb. (Forthcoming.)

Lee Anne Nickoson-Massey, Donna-Nelson-Beene, Brittany Cottrill, Elizabeth Fleitz, Meredith Graupner, Jeremy Schnieder, and Ruijie Zhao collaborated for an article titled “Graduate Student Teaching Assistant as Stakeholder: A Response to the NCTE-WPA White Paper on Writing Assessment." (Article in progress.)

Jeremy Schnieder is serving as Lee Anne Nickoson-Massey's teaching assistant in English 780: Writing Assessment (Spring 2009).

Sue Carter Wood, Heather Pristash, and Inez Schaechterle co-authored chapter titled “The Needle as the Pen: Intentionality, Needlework, and the Production of Alternate Discourses of Power.” Accepted into Women and Things: The Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1690-1950. Ed. Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Tobin. Forthcoming from Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

Christine Garbett and Sue Carter Wood co-taught a three-day unit in ENG 150: Response to Literature titled “Fairy Tales and Fairy Tales Retold.”

Toby Coley, Joe Erickson, and Jeremy Schnieder presented a panel at 2008 NCTE entitled "Weaving a Real Web 2.0." 

Kristine Blair, Joe Erickson, Jeremy Schnieder, Toby Coley, Rujie Zhao, and Eden Leon co-presented a panel at Computers and Writing 2008 titled “A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms.” 

Joe Erickson, Kristine Blair, Toby Coley, Ruijie Zhao, Eden Leon, and Jeremy Schnieder co-authored an article for Computers and Composition Online (February 2009) entitled: "A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms."

Toby Coley and Joe Erickson co-authored a piece for Computers and Composition Online (February 2009) entitled "New Media and Multi-modality: An Interview with Chris Anson."

Joe Erickson, Eden Leone, and Vanessa Cozza will be presenting together at the CCCC 2009. The title of the panel is "Teachers, Texts, and Contexts: Tracking Traditions in Composition Studies."

Elizabeth Fleitz,co-presented with Brittany Cottrill and Abbey Kanzig at Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in November 2007 on a panel titled "But It Works For Them!’: WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization” 

Meredith Graupner 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.  The panel was titled “Seeing Beyond the Academy: Technology, Community, and Alternate Literacies in the Digital Mirror Project.” 

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

Jeremy Schnieder, Elizabeth Schnieder, Erin Deitel-McLaughlin, and Clint Deitel-McLaughlin co-presented at 2007 BGSU GradSTEP on a panel titled “Graduate School, Marriage, and Parenting: Finding a Balance.” 

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

Emily J. Beard, Brittany Cottrill, and Christine Garbett presented a panel at 2009 CCCC called "Composing Spaces: Reexamining the Spaces Where Students Write." San Francisco, CA. March 2009

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

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

Brittany Cottrill and Vanessa Cozza co-presented the classroom demonstration "Producing, Connecting, and Reflecting on New Technology: Incorporating and Analyzing Blogs, Social Networks, and Visual Media in the Writing Classroom" at NCTE 2008.

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

Emily J. Beard, Christine Garbett, Jeff Kirchoff and Kerri Elise Hauman co-presented at a 2009 BGSU PhD application workshop for MA and MFA students.