Rhea Lathan has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures Department at Michigan State University.

Alice Robison will soon begin a 2-year postdoc in the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she will continue her research on new media literacies and videogames for teaching and learning.

2006-2007

Eric Pritchard, is the 2006 Melville Award Winner for his paper "'If I Could Take All My Parts With Me': A Critical Narrative of Black Queer Literacies, Agency, History, and Imagination"

and congratualtions to:

Tim Laquintano ("The Rise of Deconstruction in Composition and Rhetoric") & Mira Shimabukuro ("No Island Is an Island: Territorializing Literacy in the Pacific"), tied for honorable mention as strong runners up.

Congratulations to Melvin Hall, dissertator in our Composition and Rhetoric PhD program, who has been awarded the David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship for a year of study in Morocco, to begin Fall 2006. Mel will be engaged in intensive language study at the Ibn Battuta Language Center for Advanced Arabic, focusing on Arabic rhetoric texts, and will also be studying with Dr. Mohammed El-Ouali, a specialist in Arabic rhetoric and the comparative study of Aristotelian and Arabic rhetorics.

Best wishes to Mel as he embarks on this exciting intellectual and physical journey!

Past Awards

2006-2007

Michael Bernard-Donals

Book:
History, Memory, and Representation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2006. 275 pp. + index.
“ Difficult Freedom: Levinas, Language, and Politics”. diacritics [forthcoming].

Essays:
“ In Memoriam: Levinas, the Holocaust, and The Immemorial.” Mosaic [forthcoming].

“Seeing Atrocity.” In Critical Approaches to Teaching Elie Wiesel’s Night. Ed.Alan Rosen. New York: Modern Language Association [forthcoming].

“Ethics, Redemption, and Writing after Auschwitz.” Judaic Perspectives on Literacy: Contexts for Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Andrea Greenbaum and Deborah Holdstein. New York: Hampton Press [forthcoming]. With John W. Drake.

Eric Darnell Pritchard and Maria Bibbs

"Sista Outsider: Queer Women of Color and Hip Hop" in Homegirls Make Some Noise : Hip Hop Feminism Anthology. eds. Gwendolyn Pough, Elaine Richardson, Aisha Durham and Rachel Raimist. New York: Park Publishing (Forthcoming)

Bryan Trabold (PhD, 2003): "Hiding Our Snickers": Weekly Mail Journalists' Indirect Resistance in Apartheid South Africa." College English. Volume 68, Number 4, March 2006

(CompRhet alum) John Duffy's book, Writing from These Roots: The Historical Development of Literacy in a Hmong-American Community, will be published by the University of Hawaii Press in Spring 2007.

Martin Nystrand

• co-editor of The International Handbook on Writing Development (Sage, in process)

• “ The Social and Historical Context for Writing Research.” Chapter 1, C. MacArthur (Ed.). (2006). Handbook of Writing Research. New York: The Guilford Press.

Past Publications

2006-2007

NOVEMBER

Michael Bernard-Donals

“The Book of Forgetting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.” National Communication Association, San Antonio.

“Exiled Memory: Israel in the Literary and Political Imagination.” Response, Remembrance, Representation: A Dialogue between Postwar Jewish Literatures, Universities of Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium.

OCTOBER

Deb Brandt, "The Thickening Plot of Writing." Featured Speaker. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.

Eric Darnell Pritchard, "Hip Hop, Gender and Queerness" Featured Panelist. Department of Performance Studies, New York University - Peace Out East LGBT Hip Hop Festival.

SEPTEMBER

Deb Brandt just returned from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she participated in a statewide town meeting on literacy. Her talk was entitled "The Workplace as a School for Literacy" and it focused on how universities as well as literacy-intensive businesses could better address the uneven distribution of literacy opportunity in their organizations.

Past Presentations

2005-2006

Beth Godbee has recently been elected the graduate-student representative on the executive board for the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA). (This is in addition to already being the grad-student rep on the Midwest Writing Centers Association's Board.) Congratulations, Beth!!

Martin Nystrand: The Advisory Board of the Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives (RCSA).

Past Appointments

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