Student Profiles - Student Scholarship - Alumni - Dissertations by Program Graduates

This is a representative--but incomplete--list of conference presentations, publications, and similar scholarly work by students in the Rhetoric & Writing PhD 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.)

Jen Almjeld (2004)
"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.

Stephanie Anderson (2006)
“Service Learning and the Scholarship of Engagement,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

Florence Bacabac (2004)
“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.

Toby Coley (2007)
“A Web We Can Weave: Considering Open Source Technologies in Our Classrooms,” presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, GA, May 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)
“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,” a 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,” 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)
“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.

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).

“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).

Joe Erickson (2007)
“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, February 2008.

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

Elizabeth Fleitz (2005)
“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.

Meredith Graupner (2006)
“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 (special issue), forthcoming.

“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)
“Un-Corseting Women: Usurping Patriarchy,” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“‘But it works for them!’: WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization” Writing Across the Curriculum: "Assessment and Writing Across the Curriculum," co-presented with Brittany Cottrill and Elizabeth Fleitz at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 2007.

“Developing Sustainable Social Constructionist Pedagogy: A Lesson Plan from Prussian Blue and Propaganda to Indoctrination,” presented at the Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, October 2007.

"Non-Formulaic Writing for the English Curriculum,” co-presented at the Future of English Studies Conference, Springfield, IL, October 2007.

“Validating the Vernacular: (Re)Placing the Displaced Dialects,” presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention, Calgary, Alberta, October 2007.

Review of African American Literacies Unleashed by Arnetha F. Ball and Ted Lardner. Transverse, Spring 2007. Transverse is a paper-based journal with a pdf version available on-line at www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/journal.htm

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

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.

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.

“W4nna Ch@t?: Instant Me$$enger and Other Outside Literacies as Pedagogy Beyond the Cla$$room,” presented at the Conference for College 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.

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.

Sergey Rybas (2004)
“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.

James Schirmer (2004)
"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.

Jeremy Schnieder (2006)
“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.

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)
“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.