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Past Literacy & Rhetorical Studies speakers

 

	2021 David Charles Gore	Catastrophe and Political Mourning in the Book of Mormon, co-sponsored by the Religious Studies Program
	2018 various speakers	Reparations, Repatriation, and Redress presented by the RIGS (Race, Indigeneity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) Initiative at the University of Minnesota
	2018 various speakers	BreakOut: Voices from the Inside, presented by PEN America, Poetry Asylum, and the Weisman Art Museum
	2018 Grace Kyungwon Hong	Virtual Violence: Refusing Redress in Gina Kim’s “Bloodless/Dongducheon"
	2017 Dylan Rodriguez	Insult/Internal Debate/Protest
	2016 Carolyn R. Miller	Memoir, Blog, and Selfie: Genres of Self-Representation
	2014 Beth Bouloukos	From Proposal to Bookshelves: Survival Guide to Manuscript Publishing in the Humanities
	2011 Catherine Prendergast	What Do We Think the Book is Now? 2000 Students Weigh In: A Presentation
	2010 Bruce Horner	Writing English in Translation: ELF, World Englishes, and Diversalité
	2010 John Duffy & others	hmong literacies: a two-day lrs speaker series
	2007 Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch Chris Anson Thom Swiss	Engaging Students in Digital Writing Visit the Digital Writing wiki, which is designed to support the speakers' book Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools
	2006 Salman Rushdie	“Step Across This Line”
	2004 James Fallows	Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow: After the 2004 Elections
	2004 Jodi O'Brien	Sexual Silence and Shame and Good Ol' American Values
	2003 Patricia Bizzell	Future Directions for Rhetorical Traditions
	2003 Dr. Susan Love	Good Writing = Strong Medicine: Dr. Susan Love's Rhetorical Prescriptions for Better Health
	2003 Deborah Brandt	Reading, Writing, Wealth, and the New Economy
	2002 Daryl Baldwin	The Miami Language: Reclamation at Ground Zero
	2002 Chris Ware & Ira Glass	Glass/Ware: New Media for Writing American Lives
	2001 Rubin “Hurricane” Carter	New Literacies for a New Millenium: Forging University/Community Partnerships
	2001 Janice Radway	Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation
	2000 Bernadette Longo	Giant Brains Controlling Scientific Knowledge: History (in Progress) of Human-Computer Relationship
	2000 Susan Miller	The History, A History, and Liminal Spaces: Common Books in Three Keys
	2000 Ray Suarez	The Talking 21st Century: Public Discourse and the Written Word in an Accelerating World
	1999 David Hall	The Old and the New: Literacy and Reading in Eighteenth- Century America
	1999 Toby Fulwiler	Teaching Writing as a Liberal Art: Ideas that Made the Difference
	1999 Min-Zhan Lu	The Politics of Critical Affirmation
	1998 Edward Schiappa	Constructing Reality through Definitions: The Politics of Meaning
	1998 Lester Faigley	Visual Rhetoric: Literacy by Design
	1997 Carol Berkenkotter	Settings and the Institutional Organization of Language
	1997 Kathleen Yancey	Discourses, Rhetorics, Selves: Writing Assessment in the Academy
	1996 Susan Miller	The Cultural Work of Local Authorship: Political Rhetorics of Expression
	1996 Susan McLeod	Whither WAC? Reflections on the Silver Anniversary of Writing Across the Curriculum
	1995 Geneva Smitherman	African American English: From the Hood to the Amen Corner
	1994 Charles Bazerman	Students Being Disciplined: Getting Confused, Getting By, Getting Rewarded, Getting Smart, Getting Real
	Art Young	The Wonder of Writing Across the Curriculum
	1992 Andrea Lunsford	Literacy, Intellectual Property, and the Status Quo: Scenes for Writing in the Academy
	1991 Jacqueline Jones Royster	Diversity and Writing: Dialogue Within a Modern University