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Recent Faculty Publications

In addition to regular coursework and teaching commitments, R&W students 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 student publications.

Jen Amjeld
"Reconceptualizing the Subject: Ethics, Subjects, and the Possibility of Constructing and Interpreting Identity Through Online Discourse." Co-presenter, Sergey Rybas. Conference on College Composition and Communication Conference, New York City, NY, March 22-25, 2007.

“(Sub)Urban Sprawl. MySpace as Big City Adventure on the Web." Computers and Writing, Detroit, MI, May 17-20, 2007.

“Multimodal Methods for Multimodal Literacies: Establishing a Techno- Feminist Research Identity." Co-presenter, Kristine Blair. Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, State College, PA, July 8-10, 2007.

"Redefining Research to Expand Our Scholarly Reach." Co-presenter, Kristine Blair. Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 4-6, 2007.

Brittany Cottrill
"Blogs in the Classroom: A Textual Analysis of Internet Dialects in the Composition Classroom." Computer Connection at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.  New York City, NY. March 2007.

"Graduate Connections: Get the Most from Your Assistantship" with Stephanie Anderson.  BGSU GradSTEP, Bowling Green, Ohio. August 2007.

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

Florence Bacabac
“From Cyberspace to Print: Intersecting Invention Practices and Academic Writing,” Computers and Writing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 18 May 2007.

“On Critical Pedagogy and Civic Discourse: Articulating Means of Participation in the Classroom,” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, 4 October 2007.

“Professional Identity and Development: Realities in Digital Composing” Co-presented with Kris Blair, Liz Monske, Lanette Cadle, Jen Almjeld, Matt Barton, David Gross, Chris Harris, Dorothy Robbins, and Robin Goertz. Accepted as a workshop for the CCCC Convention, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

Chris Denecker
Review of New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse by Royce and Bowcher published in CEA Forum
Winter/Spring 2007 edition.

Attended the Digital Media and Composition Institute at Ohio State University in June 2007.

"Working Together, Teaching A Part: High School and College Teachers Collaborating in Dual Enrollment" presented at CEAO Fall Conference, October 2007.

Successful Defense of Dissertation: "Toward Seamless Transition: Dual Enrollment and the Composition Classroom," October 2007.

"No Words But Hers: Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit'" presented at 2007 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Little Rock, AK.

"Clancy Ratliff: Blogger, Scholar...Blogger-Scholar" Co-authored Meredith Graupner in Computers and Composition Online Fall 2007.

"[Re]Fresh[ing]Perspectives: Multimodal Composition and the AYA Language Arts Teacher" accepted for publication in Computers and Composition Online

Elizabeth Fleitz
“Writers at Work in Cyberspace: The Writing Center on LiveJournal.” East Central Writing Center Association Conference, BGSU, March 16-17, 2007.

Charles E. Shanklin Award for Research Excellence for “The Grammar of Abortion: A Pentadic Analysis of Pro-Choice Rhetoric.” May 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.

Review of Funeral Festivals in America: Rituals for the Living. Journal of Popular Culture 40(5) (October 2007).

“Disciplined Bodies: Cookbooks, Standardization, and the Print Revolution in the Victorian Era.” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, AR, October 4-6, 2007.

“‘But It Works For Them!’: WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization” Co-presented with Brittany Cottrill and Abbey Kanzig. Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 8-10, 2007.

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

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

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

“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 Kristine Blair, Jen Almjeld, and Erin Dietel-McLaughlin. BGSU Research Conference, Bowling Green, OH, November 2007.

"Clancy Ratliff: Blogger, Scholar...Blogger-Scholar" Co-authored Christine Denecker in Computers and Composition Online forthcoming Fall 2007.

“Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships between Assessment Tools and Program Identities” has been accepted as a co-organized workshop at CCCC, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Single Fathers in the Kitchen: Masculinizing a Space for Compassionate Caregivers” has been accepted for the CCCC, New Orleans, LA. April 2008.

Meredith is also the Theory into Practice section editor for Computers and Composition Online.

Abbey Kanzig
“Validating the Vernacular: Making the Case for the Multidialectal Classroom” 2007 Annual Southwest Texas/Popular Culture/American Culture Association (SW/TX PC/ACA) Albuquerque, NM, February, 2007.

"An Apology for Directive Instruction in the Writing Center: Empowering the Tutor" 2007 The 29th East Central Writing Centers Association Conference (ECWCA) at Bowling Green
State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, March 15, 16, and 17,
2007.

Review of Ball and Lardner's African American Literacies Unleashed, (2005). Transverse, a graduate literary journal of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto (Spring 2007).

“Validating the Vernacular: (Re)Placing the Displaced Dialects” 2007 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention October 4-6, 2007 in Calgary, AB.

"Non-Formulaic Writing for the English Curriculum.” Co-presenter. Future of English Studies Conference Oct. 19-20, 2007, at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

“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 (WSRL) Conference Arizona State University, Tempe, Oct. 25-27, 2007.

"'But it works for them!': WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization." Co-presenter, Brittany Cottrill and Elizabeth Fleitz. Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH.  November 2007.

“Un-Corseting Women: Usurping Patriarchy,” has been accepted for presentation at the CCCC meeting in New Orleans, April 2-5, 2008.

"Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships between Assessment Tools and Program Identities" has been accepted as a workshop CCCC meeting in New Orleans, April 2-5, 2008.

Erin Laverick
"No Words but Her Words: Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit'" Co-presented Christine Denecker. Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Little Rock, AR, October 4-6, 2007.

Ann-Gee Lee
“Following the Script: An Examination of the Materiality of Nushu as Civic Discourse” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Little Rock, AR, October 4-6, 2007.

Heather Pristash
“Knit Two Together: Knitblogs, Knitalongs, and a Digital Culture of Material Artifacts,” 28th meeting of the SW/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations, 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).

"The Needle as the Pen: Intentionality, Needlework, and the Production of Alternate Discourses of Power." Co-authored Sue Carter Wood and Inez Schaechterle. Women and Things: The Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1650-1950 Eds. Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Tobin Ashgate Publishing Company forthcoming.

Sergey Rybas
“Reconceptualizing the Subject: Ethics, Subjects and the Possibility of Constructing Identity through Online Discourse” Co-presented Jen Almjeld. CCCC New York, NY, March, 23, 2007.

“In Private: Exploring Agency in an Online Composition Class.” Computers and Writing, May, 19 2007, Detroit, MI.

“Contesting the Panopticon Metaphor: Online Education and Subjectivation of the Online User.” Conference of the International Communication Association, May 25, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

James Schirmer
"The Personal as Public: Identity Construction/Fragmentation Online" The Computer Culture Reader Ed. Judd Ruggill, forthcoming.

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

Jeremy Schnieder
“Using the Tools You Have: One Writing Center's Process of Creation” East Central Writing Centers Association Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. (Spring 2007).

“Podcasting Across Borders” Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology Technology Fair, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Co-presented Barbara Toth. (Spring 2007)

“Collaborative Instruction in the Composition Classroom: Innovation by Design” Co-presented Andrea Cleaves. European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing; Bochum, Germany. (Summer 2007)

“Using Oral History in the Composition Classroom” Co-presented Elizabeth Schnieder. European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, Bochum, Germany (Summer 2007).

“Graduate School , Marriage, and Parenting: Finding a Balance” Co-presented Elizabeth Schnieder, Erin Deitel-McLaughlin, and Clint Deitel-McLaughlin BGSU GradStep (Fall 2007).

Amie Wolf
Catherine Braun, Ben McCorkle, and Amie Wolf. “Remixing Basic Writing: Digital Production and a Basic Writing Curriculum.” Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2007.

"Approaching Solutions: Theories in Writing Facilitation." Co-presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the East Central Writing Centers Association, Bowling Green, Ohio. March 15-17, 2007.

“Three Instructors’ Tales: Creating Virtual Environments for Varied Student Populations.” Co-presented at Computers and Writing 2007, Detroit, Michigan. May 17-20, 2007.

"Service-Learning Live!: A Workshop on Preparing Students for Service-Learning." Invited to present for campus faculty members and community partners interested in service-learning courses. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September 21, 2007

Ruijie Zhao
“Saves Love for Another Time: Changed Space and Time in Instant Messaging” Computers and Writing May 17-20, Detroit.

“Blogging Fame, Constructing and Contending Identity on Blog” Conference of International Association for International Communication Studies June 22-24, 2007, Harbin, China.

"'Miss Conduct' Books from Christine de Pisan and Pan Chao" Feminism(s) & Rhtoric(s) Oct. 4-6, 2007, Little Rock, AR.