Anne Ruggles Gere is Arthur F Thurnau Professor and Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor of English and Education at The University of Michigan. She also directs the Joint Program in English and Education and the Sweetland Center for Writing. A shift in angle of vision can lead to small gestures that carry larger significance. For me, being appointed as director of the Sweetland Center for Writing in 2008 led me to start looking at writing instruction campus-wide instead of focusing on the English Department where I had spent the two previous decades immersed in various aspects of composition studies. From this…
Author: Liz Homan
By Jessica Enoch, Jean Bessette, and Pamela VanHaitsma As historians of rhetoric and composition, we highlight here three “small but potent gestures” of feminist invitation. In making these gestures, we do not position ourselves as experts who advance a particular approach to digital historiography. Rather, we take a feminist stance that enables us to respond to invitations like Cindy Selfe’s—to “pay attention” to digital technologies (Technology)—and in turn invite others to join us in doing so (Foss and Griffin). We believe this invitational stance is especially important for historians of rhetoric and composition since so many scholars in our subfield…
Title: Polymorphous Perversity in Texts Author: Johndan Johnson-Eilola Publication Date: Summer 2012 For today’s March (Webtext) Madness contribution, I (Liz, Sweetland Fellow and Michigan Doctoral Student locked in the throes of the Winter that Wouldn’t Die) would like to share a webtext that I enjoyed “reading” one summer day a couple years ago (2012). Johndan Johnson-Eilola’s webtext “Polymorphous Perversity in Texts” appeared in the summer edition (16.3) of Kairos. As a former middle- and high- school English teacher, and as a current composition teacher and English Education aspiring scholar, I have struggled to exist in spaces that define “texts” as…
This year, the DRC Fellows have been working together to build out the DRC Wiki. It has been our goal as a group to develop the Wiki as a resource for scholars in the fields of digital rhetoric, computers and composition, composition studies, and other related fields. A further goal has been to “chart the territory” of our field(s)’ history (or histories). We know that building histories is tough, so we are calling for contributions to be included in this project, and hope this blog carnival can inspire people to contribute their ideas to the Wiki, as well. In her…