Author: Liana Clarke

Session B8: “Multimodal Hip-Hop and Transforming Writing Studies” Presenters: Laquana Cooke, Regina Duthely, and Todd Craig Review by Liana Clarke The session had a theme of “wokeness” in our pedagogy as we, as instructors, find new ways to bring multimodality into the classroom through hip-hop songs, basketball video games, and composing using mixtapes as a framework. The presenters were passionate about the work they did in the classroom, presenting it to us as true practitioners. All three presentations were working with not only racial politics, but gender politics as well as they aimed to break down or reach out to…

C&W Saturday Keynote Session “Racing Games: On Games, Race, and Community Building” Presenter: Samantha Blackmon Review by Liana Clarke Overview Samantha Blackmon, Associate Professor of English-Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University, delved into the issues surrounding representation in gaming through her own personal experience “bring[ing] a part of me into my research” to locate the reciprocal nature of body and research as she tackled race, the academy, gaming, and pedagogy. Blackmon used screenshots of herself in the act of gaming through live-streaming as she began the presentation, making the connection between people of color and the digital. Blackmon’s visual presentation…