THE
STATE
OF
THE
ART
A WRITING
AND RHETORIC
SEMINAR
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SUMMER 2018
#RCintheDMV
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ABOUT
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Join other writing and rhetoric faculty in a high-impact professional development experience. Organized around a handful of provocative readings, we plan to gather a group of energetic and curious scholars, researchers, and teachers this summer to engage with the state of our art and push its boundaries.
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Here’s the skinny:
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WHAT
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A summer seminar experience designed to provoke and unsettle our teaching and research practices. With no registration fee, and a carefully curated (and short!) reading list, faculty can focus on working together to sharpen their next project or course design.
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WHEN
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July 18, 19, and 20 • 2:00pm -5:00 pm
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WHO
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Writing and rhetoric faculty in the DMV
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WHERE
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Georgetown University
SCHEDULE
DAY 1 • JULY 18
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Re-thinking persuasion
Introductions, concept and affinity mapping, discussion
Readings
Dush, Lisa. “When Writing Becomes Content.” CCC 67.2 (Dec 2015): 173-196.
Grabill, Jeff. “The Work of Rhetoric in the Common Places; An Essay on Rhetorical Methodology.” JAC 34.1-2 (2014): 247-267.
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DAY 2 • JULY 19
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Re-styling research and methods
Projects, hybrid methods, collaborations
Reading
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DAY 3 • JULY 20
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Re-tooling teaching
Design, praxis, cross-campus models
Wrap-up: future directions, next steps, networked action
Reading
Cooper, Marilyn. “Listening to Strange Strangers: Modifying Dreams.” Rhetoric Through Everyday Things. Eds. Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2016. 17-29
Meet The Organizers
MATTHEW
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PAVESICH
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Matthew Pavesich is Associate Teaching Professor in the English Department and Associate Director of the Writing Program at Georgetown University. He teaches in the areas of rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy, experimenting most recently with design-based methods. His research areas include rhetorical ecologies, composition pedagogy, and writing program administration, and he has published in technoculture, the WAC Journal, and the Journal of Basic Writing. His current projects include dcadapters.org, an archive of local material rhetoric, and field work in education-oriented design studios. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois-Chicago (2009).
KAREN
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SHAUP
Karen Shaup is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the English Department at Georgetown University. She teaches first-year writing and works on assessment and research projects with the Writing Team. She received her PhD from the University of Oregon. Recently, she published an article on Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Garden Party” and the aesthetics of consumerism. She is interested in the digital humanities and composition pedagogy, and is currently working on a YouTube ethnography of online bird watching communities.
This event is generously sponsored by
The event is free, but please register by June 15, 2018.