Phase Two Listing

As the conference date approaches, Phase Two asks all presenters to share a teaser, or preview, of their session for our upcoming event. These teasers can be a slide deck, a link to a website/video/etc., or a pedagogical tool (ex., syllabus or assignment) that informs your presentation. The goal of these teasers is to get people thinking and talking together in anticipation of the conference on September 19. Your Phase II teaser need not be too elaborate; it's fine if what you prepare and submit simply extends your work-in-progress, listing questions, outlining a plan, extending the proposal or abstract in some way.

Send us your Phase II teaser by August 15, if possible, and by no later than the first week of September. To post your Phase II teaser, simply send a link via email to corridors AT vt.edu, and conference organizers will add the URL to your presentation's title in the directory below.

Phase Two Listing | Saturday, September 19, 2020 | All sessions in Zoom | Go to Schedule Grid

Name	Title link	Session and Time	Type	Abstract
Whitney Jordan Adams Berry C	Rhetorical Outliers: The Role of the Community Rhetor in the Classroom	A2, 9 AM	Panel	This presentation explores the concept of participatory critical rhetoric (Middleton, Hess, Endres, and Senda-Cook) and the idea of partnering with local rhetors.
Brandon Biller George Mason U	Latrinalia as Discourse: From Systematic Design to Instructional Praxis	B3, 10:30 AM	Panel	Graffiti specific to lavatories is an important source of public writing and a form of community engagement that operates materially in a “space” situated liminally between the public and private allowing for the increasingly diverse voices of students to be seen and heard.
Carolyn Commer Virginia Tech	Making Policy: The Current State of English Education Policy in Virginia	C3, 2:15 PM	Panel	This presentation offers a rhetorical perspective on the making of education policy in the state of Virginia that affects our work as teachers of writing.
Aubrie Cox U Louisville	Making Knowledge For/About/With Communities: The Expectations and Realities of Collaborative Writing	A2, 9 AM	Panel	This presentation will share the opening stages of an oral history project for a former record store, and the anticipation of conflicting narratives.
Sarah Lucille Cozort U Memphis	It's All Happening: Alternative Exercises for the First-Year Composition Classroom	D2, 3:45 PM	Workshop	Inspired by Geoffrey Sirc's scholarship on a strain of FYC that took its cue from the mid-twentieth century avant-garde, participants will engage in exercises that prompt reconsideration of the writing process as actively engaged with classroom space and the field of page.
Emily Csukardi Virginia Commonwealth U	Autotheory as Feminist Rhetorical Practice: Examining Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House	D3, 3:45 PM	Panel	This presentation engages the intersection of second-person narration and written bodily experience as a rhetorical practice of queer community-making within autotheoretical feminist studies.
Maggie Fernandes Virginia Tech	"Fight the Power!": Using PCHAT to Create Labor-Based Grading Contracts Against White Language Supremacy	C2, 2:15 PM	Workshop	Using Inoue’s work on antiracist writing pedagogy as a foundation, this facilitated discussion and workshop aims to help participants collaboratively develop an outline/draft of a labor-based grading contract system to be implemented in their own pedagogical context.
Lauren Fusilier U Louisville	Navigating Reciprocity with Community Partners	A2, 9 AM	Panel	I will discuss navigating reciprocity with her museum partner while producing a digital interactive map that yielded both tangible deliverables and abstract benefits.
Brian Gaines Virginia Tech	Pure Sourcery: Making and Human/Machine Symbiosis	C3, 2:15 PM	Panel	Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works. Examining Pd through a variety of rhetorical lenses, this presentation will argue for its implications across a variety of disciplines.
Traci Gardner Virginia Tech	Making Waves with Your Syllabus: Navigating Contractual Obligations and Ethical, Pedagogical Beliefs	D1, 3:45 PM	Panel	Beginning with genre analysis, this presentation examines the rhetorical design, organization and purpose of syllabi and argues reinvention through the creativity of making can allow for ethical interventions in a genre that leans toward prescriptive, restrictive writing choices.
Tyler Gillespie U Mississippi	Toward an Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecology in First-year Writing	A1, 9 AM	Panel	This presentation will discuss the adaptation of an antiracist writing assessment ecology in a first-year writing class geared toward first-generation and out-of-state students in the American South.
Tyler Gillespie U Mississippi	It's All Happening: Alternative Exercises for the First-Year Composition Classroom	D2, 3:45 PM	Workshop	Inspired by Geoffrey Sirc's scholarship on a strain of FYC that took its cue from the mid-twentieth century avant-garde, participants will engage in exercises that prompt reconsideration of the writing process as actively engaged with classroom space and the field of page.
Kat Gray Virginia Tech	“Fight the Power!”: Creating Labor-Based Grading Contracts Against White Language Supremacy	C2, 2:15 PM	Workshop	Asao Inoue argues for labor-based grading contracts to combat white language supremacy. But how do we implement them ethically? This collaborative workshop aims to answer that question; participants will leave with an outline/draft.
Letizia Guglielmo Kennesaw State U	Making Workplace Writing Skills Visible: Articulating Transferable Skills Through Course Assignments and Design	C3, 2:15 PM	Panel	This presentation explores a course design grounded in making visible the challenges of school-to-workplace writing transfer and actively framing workplace writing as informed by four primary rhetorical moves.
Erin Jensen Belmont Abbey C	Making Memes: Using Memes as a Way for Students to Connect with Writing	D2, 3:45 PM	Workshop	Memes are a way for students to connect with writing and begin to build connections between information, images, and writing. This presentation will include examples of student created memes (used with permission) and provide an opportunity for viewers to create their own memes.
Jason Luther Rowan U	Make a Quaranzine	B1, 10:30 AM	Workshop	In this workshop, participants will learn about zines and how authors and artists draw from a range of material practices as they continue to publish them through a global pandemic. Participants will make their own "quaranzines" and discuss ways to teach with them online and in face-to-face classrooms.
Jonathan Marine George Mason U	Latrinalia as Discourse: From Systematic Design to Instructional Praxis	B3, 10:30 AM	Panel	Graffiti specific to lavatories is an important source of public writing and a form of community engagement that operates materially in a “space” situated liminally between the public and private allowing for the increasingly diverse voices of students to be seen and heard.
Joseph Mack Virginia Tech	Making a Classroom Rhetoric Addressing Mental Health	D1, 3:45 PM	Panel	How do instructors create a rhetoric where the issues of mental health on campus can be safely voiced by a transnational student body? This presentation examines critical issues in order to provide a fertile ground for the creation of a classroom rhetoric of mental health.
Kira Gulko Morse Virginia Tech	Culture Inclusive Considerations for English Language Learners in First-Year Composition Curriculum	D3, 3:45 PM	Panel	This presentation addresses the need for a closer examination of first-year composition programs in order to ensure that the themes and reading materials, as well as the structure of the course, are not culturally exclusive of the ELLs in a mainstream classroom.
Susan Mockler American U	Genre Bending: Argumentative Writing Through the Eyes of a Scientist	C1, 2:15 PM	Panel	The recent transition to on-line teaching has catapulted us forward into necessary experimentation with methods of conveying information to our students. While not new, genre theory is one place to begin. One genre I’ve found meets these criteria is assigning what is typically an argument-driven analysis as a hypothesis-driven lab report, including a visual presentation of data (evidence from the text).
Jess Rogers Virginia Commonwealth U	Making Symphonic Narratives: Digital Activism and the Authorial Twitter Thread	C3, 2:15 PM	Panel	My presentation focuses on making a communal ethos within digital activism. Examining feminist engagement with the authorial Twitter thread via the digital #MeToo movement, I locate a site of symphonic rhetorical amplification and transformation.
Jody Shipka U Maryland, Baltimore County	Edible Rhetoric: Making Meals that Matter	Plenary, 1 PM		This presentation explores the rhetorical, innovative and creative dimensions of what food scholar Sherrie Inness calls “kitchen culture”--the various discourses about food, cooking, and gender roles that stem from the kitchen but that pervade our society on many levels.” (3).
Dakoda Smith U Louisville	Toward a Co-Produced Archival Rhetoric	A2, 9 AM	Panel	This presentation will examine how Church Clarity volunteers collaborate with community members to score the LGBTQ policies of evangelical Christian churches and how they began digitally archiving evidence as a challenge to power.
Lauren Tuckley George Mason U	Latrinalia as Discourse: From Systematic Design to Instructional Praxis	B3, 10:30 AM	Panel	Graffiti specific to lavatories is an important source of public writing and a form of community engagement that operates materially in a “space” situated liminally between the public and private allowing for the increasingly diverse voices of students to be seen and heard.
Christy I. Wenger Shepherd U	Making Emotional Labor Visible Through Mindfulness	D1, 3:45 PM	Panel	My interactive presentation will offer secular mindfulness, or moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness, as a means of making emotional labor visible in academic work environments. Together, we will work toward mindful strategies for communal well being.
Megan Weaver Virginia Tech	Is Your Writing Assessment Racist?: Using Grading Contracts to Make Equitable Writing Classrooms	1A, 9 AM	Panel	I discuss my shift toward labor-based grading contracts as a means of making antiracist writing assessment and embodying critical language awareness when interacting with student writing. Attendees will take away at least two examples of grading contracts for writing classes.
Meng Yu Virginia Tech	Assessing ELL Students’ Writing in A Traditional Composition Classroom	A1, 9 AM	Panel	The research explores the perception of ELL students on the assessment in FYW courses and analyzes the deviation between students’ and instructors’ expectations. Participants are invited to discuss the best practice of creating an equal grading system for ELL and native students.