Colloquium Series
Archive
Thanks to the help of our friends in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, a few of the more recent colloquium talks are available as streaming audio files. These are best listened to with RealPlayer. Abstracts of other talks are available. Please see below.
Archived Speakers
Guest Scholar Speakers
| Speaker | Title | Date | Abstract | Audio/Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris M. Anson | "Responding to the Unexpected: What Happens When We Read Students' Writing?" | 10-31-1997 | yes | no |
| Damián Baca | “The Codex, the Pictograph, and the Letter: Chicana/o Scripts for the 21st Century” | 9-10-2009 | yes | no |
| Anne Balsamo | "Designing Culture: Exploring the Theory/Writing/Practice of New Media" | 02-18-1999 | yes | no |
| Anne Balsamo | "Taking Culture Seriously: Interdisciplinary Technology Innovation" | 09-14-2006 | yes | yes |
| David Bartholomae | "What is Composition? And If We Know What That Is, Why Do We Teach It?" | 02-16-1994 | yes | no |
| Charles Bazerman | "The Many Dimensions of Writing Research" | 03-28-2006 | yes | no |
| Charles Bazerman | "Charisma and Communication in Edison's Organizations" | 10-30-1997 | yes | no |
| Jay David Bolter | "The Rhetoric of Electronic Writing" | 03-24-1992 | yes | no |
| Deborah Brandt | "Causes for Literacy in the 20th Century" | 04-13-1994 | yes | no |
| Lil Brannon | "Knowing Our Knowledge: the Phenomenology of Teacher Research" | 04-28-1992 | yes | no |
| Lillian Bridwell-Bowles | "Academic Discourse and Diversity" | 10-13-1993 | yes | no |
| Linda Brodkey | "I Site" | 11-12-1998 | yes | no |
| Collin Gifford Brooke | "To Affinity... and Beyond! Rhetoric from a Network Perspective" | 03-17-2011 | yes | no |
| Ralph Cintron | "Can Rhetorical Studies Intersect with Ethnography? A Discussion on Transparency and the Making of Political Life in Chicago, Kosova, and Elsewhere" | 11-11-2004 | yes | yes |
| Marilyn Cooper | "Postmodern Ethics in the Writing Classroom" | 02-13-1997 | yes | no |
| Sharon Crowley | "What Lies Ahead?" University Employment in the 21st Century" | 04-18-2002 | yes | no |
| Ellen Cushman | "An Everyday Fight for US to Get Simple Respect: Institutional Language in an Inner City" | 04-16-1998 | yes | no |
| Todd DeStigter | "Toward a Dialogic Curriculum and a Ministry of Presence: A Professor's Misadventures in an Urban Alternative High School" | 09-29-2005 | yes | yes |
| Anne DiPardo | "Company in the Classroom: Exploring Collaborative Teaching in Traditional and Alternative School Settings" | 02-23-1995 | yes | no |
| John Duffy | "Everyday Rhetoric: Argument, Torture, and National Public Radio" | 02-18-2010 | yes | yes |
| Jenny Edbauer Rice | "Exceptional Subjects: Public Rhetoric and the Topos of Democracy" | 11-5-2009 | yes | yes |
| Lisa Ede | "On Innocence and (Theoretical) Experiences: Reflections on the Writing Process" | 04-27-1993 | yes | no |
| Lester Faigley | "Material Literacy and Visual Design" | 09-17-1998 | yes | no |
| Margaret Finders | "A Class Act: Literacy, Identity, and Popular Culture" | 02-26-1998 | yes | no |
| Kristie Fleckenstein | "When Language Is Not Enough: Vision and Rhetoric in Social Action" | 02-12-2009 | yes | yes |
| David Fleming | "The Power and Peril of Liminality: Freshman English at the University of Wisconsin, 1967-1970" | 10-26-2007 | yes | yes |
| Tom Fox | "Sustained Inquiry in First-Year Composition" | 03-06-2003 | yes | no |
| Toby Fulwiller | "The Politics of Writing Across the Curriculum" | 02-18-2002 | yes | no |
| Barbara Ganley | "Balancing Act: Transformations and Tensions in the 21st-Century Classroom" | 11-2-2006 | yes | yes |
| Diana George | "Witness to Voyeur: A Visual Rhetoric of Execution and the Death Penalty Debates" | 09-19-2002 | yes | yes |
| Anne Ruggles Gere | "(Un)Professional Reading and Writing in Fin de Siecle Women's Clubs" | 04-27-1995 | yes | no |
| Cheryl Glenn | "At the Intersection of Feminism and Rhetoric: The Un/Spoken" | 02-22-2007 | yes | yes |
| Jeffrey Grabill | "Making Things: Rhetoric and Community Change" | 10-12-2007 | yes | yes |
| Harvey Graff | "Lessons from the History of Literacy/Literacy Studies at OSU" | 04-21-2005 | yes | no |
| Richard Grusin | "Premediation" | 11-20-2003 | yes | yes |
| David Gunkel | "What's the Matter with Books?" | 10-24-2002 | yes | yes |
| Patricia Harken | "Teaching Cultural Studies at Purdue: After Jim Berlin" | 04-18-1996 | yes | no |
| N. Katherine Hayles | “Storytelling in the Digital Age: Narrative and Data” | 04-07-2005 | yes | no |
| Bruce Horner | "Mixing It Up: The Personal in Public Discourse" | 04-22-2004 | yes | yes |
| Bradley Hughes | "It Takes a Village to Raise a Writer: Expanding Visions of Writing Centers" | 10-14-1999 | yes | no |
| Susan Jarratt | "Feminism and Composition Studies Today: Subjects in Process" | 11-14-1996 | yes | no |
| Johndan Johnson-Eilola | "Stutter Things: Composing Time, Space, and Text in the Datacloud" | 09-18-2003 | yes | yes |
| Fred Kemp | "Mutable Texts, Mutable Writers: Classroom Computer Networks and the Revolution in Writing Instruction" | 11-10-1993 | yes | no |
| Valerie Kinloch | "Youth Literacy Practices in Schools and Communities: Promises and Possibilities" |
10-4-2012 | yes | yes |
| Gesa Kirsch | "Strategic Contemplation and Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry" | 03-11-2010 | yes | no |
| Gesa Kirsch | "Advocacy in the Classroom" | 10-10-1997 | yes | no |
| Carmen Kynard | "I Carry the Eyes of Ida B. Wells': Discourse, Rhetorical Action, and the Power of the Word in the Writing of Black Female College Students" | 02-10-2011 | yes | yes |
| Bruno Latour | "On the Use of Literature for the Understanding of Science: An Example from Pasteur's Writing" | 10-11-1994 | yes | no |
| Janice Lauer | "Composition Studies: A Multi-Modal Discipline" | 01-26-1993 | yes | no |
| Paul LeBlanc | "Sittin' in the Engine or Sleepin' in the Caboose: Technology, Faculty, TAs, and the 'Re-Engineering' of Higher Education" | 10-05-1995 | yes | no |
| Scott Lyons | "Who Lost the Youth of Leech Lake?: American Indians and Mainstream Media" | 08-30-2004 | yes | yes |
| Harriet Malinowitz | "Business, Pleasure, and the Personal Essay" | 04-19-2001 | yes | no |
| Lev Manovich | "Media, New Media, and Metamedia" | 04-02-2006 | yes | no |
| Richard Miller | "The Student as Future Donor: Redefining Service in the Academy's New Economy" | 11-01-2001 | yes | yes |
| Min-Zhan Lu | "Representing the 'Other'" | 04-15-1999 | yes | no |
| Roxanne Mountford | "A Century After the Divorce: Challenges to a Rapprochement Between Speech and English" | 11-13-2008 | yes | yes |
| Bonnie Nardi | "netWORK" | 04-20-2000 | yes | no |
| Jim Porter | "Critical Rhetoric, Public Policy, and Business Development of the World Wide Web" | 04-10-1997 | yes | no |
| Alisse Portnoy | "Imagining the Enemy as Rhetorical Strategy in the U.S. Black Freedom Movement" | 10-27-2005 | yes | no |
| Jacqueline Jones Royster | "Social Circulation and Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I a Woman' Speech" | 04-22-2010 | yes | no |
| Jacqueline Jones Royster | "Creating a Usable Past: Challenges for Knowledge-Making in the History of African-American Women's Rhetoric" | 09-28-2000 | yes | no |
| Daniel Perrin | "Coming to grips with dynamics and complexity: Methodological challenges to real-life writing research" |
10-25-2012 | yes | yes |
| Trish Roberts-Miller | "Reason, Judgment, Certainty, and Other Things That Cause Train Wrecks in Public Deliberation" | 09-23-2010 | yes | no |
| David Russell | "Writing Cannot be Taught, Only Genres: WAC and the Humanities Myth" | 02-16-1993 | yes | no |
| Blake Scott | "Civic Engagement as Risk Management and Public Relations: What the Pharmaceutical Industry Can Teach Us About Service-Learning" | 09-21-2006 | yes | yes |
| Cynthia Selfe | "The Shameful Secret of Literacy and Technology: Racism and Classism in the Guise of Progress" | 01-27-1998 | yes | no |
| Eileen Schell | "The Year of the Locavore: The Rhetoric of the Local Food Movement" | 02-07-2008 | yes | yes |
| Geoffrey Sirc | "The American Action Writers" | 02-08-2001 | yes | no |
| Patricia Sullivan | "Interdisciplinary Methods: Situated Practices" | 09-21-1994 | yes | no |
| John Swales | "It is as Perfect a Representation of Its Genre as can be Presented to the Botanical Public" | 02-15-1996 | yes | no |
| Peg Syverson | "Nailing Jello to a Wave: Crafting a Dissertation Without Losing Your Mind" | 02-14-2002 | yes | yes |
| Myron Tuman | "Vico, the Web, and the 'Barbarism of Reflectin': Speculations on the Origins and Future of Language Study." | 10-10-1996 | yes | no |
| Victor Villanueva | "What next in WAC: A Proposal" | 02-10-2000 | yes | no |
| Kathleen Welch | "Screen Literacy: Ar-Idiot Boy, Aspasis, and Next Rhetoric and Composition Studies" | 02-20-2003 | yes | no |
| James Wertsch | "Rewriting Russia: Memory, History, and Identity in the Former Soviet Union" | 11-13-1997 | yes | no |
| Dorothy Winsor | "Using Writing to Negotiate Knowledge and Power" | 09-13-2001 | yes | yes |
| Marjorie Curry Woods | "Premodern Teaching Methods in the Postmodern Classroom: Prolegomena to a Textbook" | 02-16-2006 | yes | yes |
| Anne Wysocki | "Seriously Visible: Disigned Readings of Computer-based Interactive Multimedia" | 09-30-1999 | yes | no |
| Kathleen Yancey | "Reading across Sites of Learning: Technology, Medium Plural, and New Writing PRactices--and What They (Might) Mean for Composition(ists)" | 02-12-2004 | yes | no |
| Xiaoye You | "Cosmopolitan English and the Arts of Dwelling Places" | 04-18-2013 | yes | yes |
| Art Young | "The Writing/Thinking Connection" | 02-12-1991 | yes | no |
| Vershawn Young | "Ghetto Memories, From Public Housing to Public Ivy" | 10-02-2008 | yes | no |
Graduate Student Research Forum Speakers
| Speaker | Title | Date | Abstract | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Baldridge | "The Socially Incompetent: Learning Disabilities Defined in Relation to Work" | 02-03-2005 | yes | no |
| Jessica Bannon | "Adult Basic Education in the 20th Century: Examining the Roots of Federally Funded Adult Education" | 11-30-2006 | yes | no |
| Hannah Bellwoar | "Unofficial Constructions: Bodily Texts and Women's Health" | 12-04-2008 | yes | no |
| Patrick Berry | "Horton and Freire's Road: Theory on the Edge of the Literacy Narrative" | 12-04-2008 | yes | no |
| Rebecca Bilbro | "Engineering Text" | 12-03-2009 | yes | no |
| Heather Blain | "Madness and Methodism: Ways of Knowing in the Early American Republic" | 05-03-2012 | yes | no |
| Teresa Bruckner | "For Office Use Only: Forms and the Workplace" | 04-17-2003 | yes | no |
| Marcia Buell | "Second Language Writers in First Language Settings" | 10-18-2001 | yes | yes |
| Amber Buck | "Tracing Literate Activity on Social Network Sites" | 04-29-2010 | yes | no |
| Michael Burns | "Race, Space, and Rhetoric: Defining Community with Discourse" | 04-21-2011 | yes | no |
| Amanda Cash | "Arthur Bestor and Adult Education in America: 1920-1940" | 04-06-2006 | yes | no |
| Kory Lawson Ching | “Peer Response in the Composition Classroom: An Alternative Genealogy” | 11-10-2005 | yes | no |
| Sunday Cummins | "Examining the Complexities of 'Kidwatching' in a Context for Teacher Inquiry" | 04-05-2007 | yes | no |
| Debra Domal | "What Lies Outside These Virtual Walls: Considering the Impact of Larger Institutional Contexts on the Computer-Mediated Classroom" | 09-26-1996 | yes | no |
| Steve Fraiberg | "English, Israel, and Globalization: A Sociohistoric Study of a Hi-Tech Company" | 12-06-2007 | yes | no |
| Kathie Gossett | "Revisioning Medieval Rhetoric" | 11-14-2002 | yes | yes |
| Sibylle Gruber | "Bridging the Gap: Encouraging Multiple Literacies in the Writing Classroom" | 12-07-1995 | yes | no |
| Kimberly Gunter | "The Study of My Familiar: An Insider Looking In?" | 03-06-1997 | yes | no |
| Helena Hall | "Missing the Mark: Conflict of Writing Needs" | 10-18-2001 | yes | yes |
| Amy Herb | "Metaresearch: Revealing Rhetorical and Sociolinguistic Networks in the Archive and Library" | 04-10-2008 | yes | no |
| Maureen Hogan | "Framing, Crisis and the Spectacle of Youth." | 03-11-1999 | yes | no |
| Cory Holding | "Rhetorical Gesture in British Elocutionism: The Case of John Bulwer" | 04-29-2010 | yes | no |
| John Hudson | "What's (Not) In It For Me?: LGBT (In)Visibility in Composition Readers" | 04-05-2007 | yes | no |
| Sonia Kline | “'I Can’t Write Nothing Down If I Don’t Know How To': Mapping Texts and Contexts in Middle School Online Writing" | 02-07-2013 | yes | no |
| Carrie Lamanna | "(De)Constructing Identity: Women, Visual Media, and Personal Narrative" | 04-17-2003 | yes | no |
| Samantha Looker | “Interrogating the ‘Academic’ With Undergraduate Writers” | 04-02-2009 | yes | no |
| Faye Edwards Maor | "Lifting Word by Word: Nineteenth Century African American Women Teaching" | 03-18-2004 | yes | yes |
| Lauren Marshall Bowen | "The Literate Lives of Elders" | 04-21-2011 | yes | no |
| Young-Kyung Min | "Cultures of L1 and L2 Writing Programs: A Disciplinary Division of Labor" | 12-06-2007 | yes | no |
| Andrea Olinger | "Styling Science: A Case Study of Enculturation into Disciplinary Writing Style" | 05-02-2013 | yes | no |
| Christa Olson | “Strategic Incorporations: Indigeneity and the Body of the Nation” | 04-02-2009 | yes | no |
| Kim Hensley Owens | “Rhetorical Labor: Writing, Childbirth, and the Internet” | 11-10-2005 | yes | no |
| Jim Purdy | "Calling off the Hounds: Technology and the Visibility of Plagiarism" | 03-18-2004 | yes | yes |
| Rashid Robinson | "Building a Picture of Success: The Ad Council and The United Negro College Fund’s Ad Campaign, ‘A Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste’" | 10-21-2004 | yes | no |
| Kevin Roozen | "Reading the River: Connecting Curricular and Extracurricular Currents of Literate Activity" | 10-16-2003 | yes | yes |
| Jody Shipka | "From Corrections to Connections: Engineering Rhetorical Events" | 10-16-2003 | yes | yes |
| Janine Solberg | "Don’t Be Mannish: Early Twentieth-Century Career Advice Books for Women" | 10-21-2004 | yes | no |
| Julia Smith | “Rhetorical MashUP: Technology, Multivocality and Rhetorical Chorus” | 05-03-2012 | yes | no |
| Jonathan Stone | "Inventing Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton and the Sonic Rhetorics of Vernacular Musical Performance” | 05-02-2013 | yes | no |
| Melissa Tombro | "Performance Studies and the Reinvention of 'I' in Rhetoric and Composition: Moving Myself Beyond a Textual Model" | 04-10-2008 | yes | no |
| Derrek Van Ittersum | "Five-Finger Inscription: Tracing the History of Failed Writing Technologies" | 04-06-2006 | yes | no |
| Amy Wan | "Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious Times" | 02-03-2005 | yes | no |
| Nicole Walls | "Composing Our Way to Linguistic Rights: From the United States in the United Nations" | 11-30-2006 | yes | no |
| Rosalie Warren Yezbick | "Shuffling Cards: Baseball Cards as an Evolving Mode of Technical Communication" | 11-14-2002 | yes | yes |
| Martha Webber | "'The Problem is Here, the Time is Now': Research, Reciprocity, and Service" | 12-3-2009 | yes | no |
| Rebecca Woodard | “Creative Writing, Blogging, and Teaching Writing: A Sociocultural Account of Trajectories of Teacher Practice” | 02-07-2013 | yes | no |