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past literacy & rhetorical studies speakers

Many of these presentations are available in .pdf format (see the right column for links to these files).

	2010 Bruce Horner	Writing English in Translation: ELF, World Englishes, and Diversalité
	2010 John Duffy & others	hmong literacies: a two-day lrs speaker series (click on the link for more information)
	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	.pdf
	2003 Patricia Bizzell	Future Directions for Rhetorical Traditions	.pdf
	2003 Dr. Susan Love	Good Writing = Strong Medicine: Dr. Susan Love's Rhetorical Prescriptions for Better Health	.pdf
	2003 Deborah Brandt	Reading, Writing, Wealth, and the New Economy	.pdf
	2002 Daryl Baldwin	The Miami Language: Reclamation at Ground Zero	.pdf
	2002 Chris Ware & Ira Glass	Glass/Ware: New Media for Writing American Lives	.pdf
	2001 Rubin “Hurricane” Carter	New Literacies for a New Millenium: Forging University/ Community Partnerships	.pdf
	2001 Janice Radway	Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation	.pdf
	2000 Bernadette Longo	Giant Brains Controlling Scientific Knowledge: History (in Progress) of Human-Computer Relationship	.pdf
	2000 Susan Miller	The History, A History, and Liminal Spaces: Common Books in Three Keys	.pdf
	2000 Ray Suarez	The Talking 21st Century: Public Discourse and the Written Word in an Accelerating World	.pdf
	1999 David Hall	The Old and the New: Literacy and Reading in Eighteenth- Century America	.pdf
	1999 Toby Fulwiler	Teaching Writing as a Liberal Art: Ideas that Made the Difference	.pdf
	1999 Min-Zhan Lu	The Politics of Critical Affirmation	.pdf
	1998 Edward Schiappa	Constructing Reality through Definitions: The Politics of Meaning	.pdf
	1998 Lester Faigley	Visual Rhetoric: Literacy by Design	.pdf
	1997 Carol Berkenkotter	Settings and the Institutional Organization of Language	.pdf
	1997 Kathleen Yancey	Discourses, Rhetorics, Selves: Writing Assessment in the Academy	.pdf
	1996 Susan Miller	The Cultural Work of Local Authorship: Political Rhetorics of Expression	.pdf
	1996 Susan McLeod	Whither WAC? Reflections on the Silver Anniversary of Writing Across the Curriculum	.pdf
	1995 Geneva Smitherman	African American English: From the Hood to the Amen Corner	.pdf
	1994 Charles Bazerman	Students Being Disciplined: Getting Confused, Getting By, Getting Rewarded, Getting Smart, Getting Real	.pdf
	Art Young	The Wonder of Writing Across the Curriculum	.pdf
	1992 Andrea Lunsford	Literacy, Intellectual Property, and the Status Quo: Scenes for Writing in the Academy	.pdf
	1991 Jacqueline Jones Royster	Diversity and Writing: Dialogue Within a Modern University	.pdf

Contact

Richard Graff
Director of Graduate Studies, LRS Minor
Associate Professor, Writing Studies
221 Nolte Center
315 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612.624.4985
graff013@umn.edu

Kirsten Jamsen
Director, Center for Writing
10 Nicholson Hall
216 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612.625.5355
kjamsen@umn.edu