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In addition to administrative duties and teaching commitments, R&W faculty continue to be quite prolific, presenting at a wide variety of conferences and publishing their work in many areas. Below is a full listing of recent faculty publications as well as a notice about a new faculty project undertaken by Dr. Gebhardt and Dr. Massey.

Kris Blair
Among her 2006 publications and accepted works are:
“Paying Attention to Adult Learners Online: Politics, Pedagogies, Possibilities.” Coauthored with R&W PhD student Cheryl Hoy. Computers and Composition 23.1 (2006).
“Technology and Tenure Decisions: Making the Case via Electronic Portfolios.” Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy. Eds. Patricia Sullivan and Pamela Takayoshi. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2006.
Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action. Coeditor with Radhika Gajjala and Christine Tulley (a R&W PhD graduate on the faculty of the University of Findlay). Hampton Press, forthcoming.
“Older Adults and Community-based Technological Literacy Programs.” Coauthored with Heidi McKee. Forthcoming in the Community Literacy Journal, Spring 2007.
Recent presentations include:
”Divisive Metaphors of Technological Literacy: Bridging the Gap Between Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL (March 2006).
“Digital Scholarly Publishing and the Dilemma of Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition.” Computers and Writing Conference, Lubbock, TX (May 2006).
”Talking with Colleagues and Administrators.” A featured presentation at the Digital Media and Composition Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (June 2006).
Planning and serving as Respondent on the NCTE invited panel on “Digital Scholarly Publishing: Beyond the Crisis,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 2005.

Bruce Edwards
C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, Legacy. General Editor of a four-volume set. Greenwood Press, forthcoming in 2007.
Other recent works on Bruce’s C.S. Lewis research agenda include Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia (Tyndale, 2005), and Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Broadman 2005).

Richard Gebhardt
“Richard Larson: In Memoriam,” College Composition and Communication (June 2006).
“The Importance of Untenured Writing Administrators to Composition and to English Studies.” Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics. Ed. Debra Dew and Alice Horning. Parlor Press, forthcoming.
“ Field Fragmentation and Non-Major Literature Courses.” CEA Forum, forthcoming in 2007.
WLA Newsletter . . . writing as a liberating activity (a publication Rick and Barbara Genelle Smith [now Barbara Smith Gebhardt] founded and edited during its thirteen-year life from 1973 to 1986) has been archived and is available online in CompPile.
Rick spoke on “Seeking Crossovers in Writing Teacher Courses” during a special interest group on Composition/English Education Connections at the 2006 CCCC meeting.

Lance Massey
Review of The End of Composition Studies. Pedagogy (Winter 2006).
“ Complexity Theory in Composition: Toward Realizing the Potential of Interdisciplinary Research.” College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL (March 2006).
”On the Ethics of Practicing What We Teach: Performativity and Ethics in the Dear Birthmother Letter" has been accepted for the 2007 CCCC meeting in New York City. Co-presenter with Lee Nickoson-Massey.

Lee Nickoson-Massey
“Differences of Interpretation: Engaging Conversations on Writing Assessment.” Review of Coming To Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment in Composition Studies. Composition Studies Online (Fall 2006).
“Teaching Assessment as Understanding Audience.” Teaching Audience: Theory and Practice. Ed. Brian Fehler, Elizabeth Weiser, and Angela Gonzales (abstract accepted September 2006).
”On the Ethics of Practicing What We Teach: Performativity and Ethics in the Dear Birthmother Letter. Accepted for the 2007 meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City. Co-presenter with Lance Massey.

Sue Carter Wood
"Using the Needle as a Sword: Epideictic Rhetoric in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union." Rhetorical Agendas: Social, Political, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. Erlbaum, 2006.
"Hallie Quinn Brown's Homespun Heroines: Biographical Tropes by and for African-American Women. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, March 2006.
"Feminist Rhetorical Theory? A Look into the Rhetorical World of Frances Willard." Co-presented with Dr. Inez Schaechterle. Rhetoric Society of America. Memphis, TN (May 2006).

Two R&W Program Faculty Start Work on Book
Lance Massey and Rick Gebhardt have begun work on an essay collection in anticipation of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Steven North’s The Making of Knowledge in Composition. The project focuses on one of composition’s monumental works in order to assess the discipline of composition and to imagine its future. The call for essay proposals that will appear in a number of journals this winter invites retrospective accounts (rhetorical and critical analyses, reception histories, reflective narratives, and other scholarly treatments) of North’s unreservedly sweeping, undoubtedly important, and undeniably controversial book. Rather than being merely retrospective, this collection seeks works that critically re-assess such things as the influence/impact, rhetoric, aims, and values of The Making of Knowledge in Composition--with an eye toward using such re-assessments to comment on the present and future of composition studies.