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Past Research Series
Spring 2022
- Elise Toedt (PhD candidate, Curriculum & Instruction, UMN–Twin Cities, LRS 2021 Summer Dissertation Fellowship winner)
"'It’s Really Hard to Pump as a Teacher!': An Inquiry into the Embodied Experiences of Lactating Teachers"
- Michael William Pfau (Professor, Communication, UMN–Duluth)
"
Structures of Engagement in 'Cli Fi' and Fear of Climate Change: Transportation and Temporal Recursion in Parable of the Sower"
Spring 2021
Listening to Voices of Protest and Critique
- Asmita Ghimire (MA, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, UMN–Duluth, 2020 LRS Travel Award winner; PhD candidate, University of Texas - El Paso)
"Reading the Protest Signs: Blaming Justice System as 'Rapist'”
- Sarah Lawler (MA candidate, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, UMN–Duluth, 2020 Summer Thesis Fellowship winner)
"Field Mice: A North Dakota Family Farm Faces the Pernicious Effects of Modern Agribusiness"
- Kirsten Jamsen (Director, Center for Writing, and Assistant Professor, Department of Writing Studies, UMN–Twin Cities)
"International Students, Identity, and Accessibility"
Translation and Transformation in the Work of Teaching Writing
- Alexander Champoux-Crowley (PhD candidate, Writing Studies, UMN–Twin Cities, LRS 2019 Summer Dissertation Fellowship winner)
"Negotiation & Translation in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies Work: Transformative Theory to LRS Teaching Practice"
- Daniel Emery and Matthew Luskey (Assistant Directors, Writing Across the Curriculum, UMN–Twin Cities)
"Comfort with the Unconventional: Liminality as a Feature of Faculty Discussions of Writing"
Spring 2020
Communities of Knowing and Learning on the Farm, in School, and Elsewhere (flyer)
- Nick Kleese (Ph.D. student, Curriculum & Instruction, UMN–Twin Cities)
“I Said ‘I Know’: Language, Knowledge, and Self-Deprecation on the Farm"
- Thomas Reynolds (Associate Professor, Writing Studies, UMN–Twin Cities)
"Multimodal Writing Instruction and New Material Entanglements"
- Samantha Quade (M.A. student, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, UMN–Duluth)
"Syllabi: Accessible Education Tools in Non-Academic Settings"
Spring 2019
POPular ARTists: Rhetorics of Beyonce, Andy Warhol, and Rupi Kaur (flyer)
- Melissa Frank (M.A. candidate, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, UM–Duluth)
"Wave Through the Waters: Beyonce's Formation of Feminist Ecological Ethos"
- John Logie (Associate Professor, Writing Studies, UM–Twin Cities)
"Repetition and Change: Exploring the Possibilities of Warholian Composition"
- Faith King (M.A. candidate, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, UM–Duluth)
"We Bleed Each Month: Rupi Kaur's Disruptive Techniques and Social Media Dissemination"
Spring 2018
Voices from Duluth
- Kristina Cashin (Master’s student, English, UM–Duluth)
"Voices for Advocacy: Reconciling White Privilege and Representation
in the Asian TESOL Hiring Process"
- Chongwon Park (Associate Professor, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, UM–Duluth)
"Cognitive Grammar and English Nominalization"
- Kevin Swanberg (Master’s student, Liberal Studies: Computational Linguistics, UM–Duluth)
"What Makes a 'Good' Translation 'Good'? A Study of Metaphor in the Korean and English Versions of The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- Elizabethada A. Wright (Professor, English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies, UM–Duluth)
"Beyond the Epideictic: A Nineteenth-Century French American Catholic Sister and
a Rhetoric of Blame"
Spring 2017
Literacy in the public sphere: Methods, voices, and visions
- Dan Philippon (Associate Professor, English)
"Eating in the Anthropocene:
What's Writing Got to Do with It?"
- Sarah Puett (PhD candidate, Writing Studies)
"Literacy of Counterpublics: An Ethnographic Study of Local Resistance"
Spring 2016
Texts and politics
- Robert Brown (Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature)
“What is academic publication FOR? Does it help us?"
- Samantha Bauer (MA candidate, English and Writing Studies, UM–Duluth)
“Can representations of Hijabi in comics challenge or change stereotypes?”
Gender, violence, and voice through the centuries
- Mary Schuster (Professor, Writing Studies)
“The Lethality Assessment Protocol: Using persuasion or maintaining agency in responding to domestic violence victims"
- Amanda Taylor (PhD candidate, English)
“Embattled: Debating and fencing in sixteenth-century Italy and England”
Spring 2015
Early modern edition
- Art Walzer (Professor, Communication Studies)
A "conciliar turn" in the study of early modern rhetoric
- Amanda Taylor (PhD Candidate, English)
Rhetorical ornamentation and the martial body: Armor in early modern English and Italian epic romances
Spring 2014
Reading and writing in new media forms: graphic novels and weblogs
- Aimee Rogers (PhD candidate, Curriculum & Instruction)
"How intermediate grade readers understand graphic novels: a case study"
- Anne Lazaraton (Associate Professor, Writing Studies)
“"Aaaaack! The active voice was used!"”: Language play, technology, and repair in the Daily Kos weblog"
Spring 2013
Literacy and rhetorical studies research series 2: steampunk, videogames, and the writing hand
- David Beard (Associate Professor, Writing Studies, U of MN-Duluth)
"Utopian memories: The print and material rhetoric of Steampunk"
- Betsy Brey (MA student, English, U of MN-Duluth)
"Digital dialogism: Bakhtin, videogames and story"
- Christina Haas (Professor, Writing Studies, U of MN-Twin Cities)
"Beyond the tyranny of the visual: Giving the writing hand its due"
Research with minnesota's students and teachers
- Martha Bigelow (Associate Professor, Curriculum & Instruction) and Kendall King (Professor, Curriculum & Instruction)
"The symbolic power of print literacy among Somali immigrant youth"
- Heidi J. Jones (Ph.D. Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction)
"Working-Class English teachers constructing figured worlds"
Spring 2012
Embodied literacies: voice, performance, and space
(brochure)
- Richard Graff (Associate Professor, Writing Studies)
"Greek rhetoric In Situ"
- Judi Petkau (PhD Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction)
"Pedagogic address in art space"
- Candance Doerr-Stevens (PhD Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction)
"Appropriating a media voice: Multimodal struggle in digital media composition"
Spring 2011
Rhetoric and readers
- John Logie (Associate Professor, Writing Studies)
“Rhetorical questions and rhetorical answers on the internet”
- Kasi Williamson (PhD Candidate, Communication Studies)
“Reading a nation of readers: Print media, race, and national identity during the Great Depression”
Fall 2010
Rethinking writing: digital storytelling in the college classroom
- Walt Jacobs (African American & African Studies) and Candance Doerr-Stevens (Graduate student, Curriculum & Instruction)
Their collaborative research on how undergraduate students in a course used digital storytelling to build and remix identities resulted in a compelling digital story of the research itself, which was screened and discussed.
This public event took place on the National Day on Writing.
Spring 2008
Uses of narrative: disciplines, lies and letters
- Dr. Carol Berkenkotter (Professor, Writing Studies)
“Transdisciplining narrative”
- Abigail Davis (PhD Candidate, English)
“Early American lies: The power of literature to distort the historical record”
Masculine identity construction in social and literacy practices
- Dr. Timothy Lensmire (Associate Professor, Culture and Teaching and Literacy Education)
“Laughing white men: The complex social production of white racial identity”
- Sara Berrey (PhD Candidate, English)
“‘You are very scholastic’: Spaces of self education in nineteenth-century boys periodicals; or, ‘Ed’ and the Ventriloquist Detective”
- Tom Friedrich (PhD Candidate, Literacy Education)
“‘This is what you need to say, even if it sounds boring’: First-year
university male student writers as speaking grotesque bodies”
Spring 2007
Ancient Greece, MIT, & the Hmong diaspora
- Richard Graff (Associate Professor, Rhetoric)
“The styling of prose in classical Greece”
- Peter Kizilos-Clift (PhD Candidate, American Studies)
“Distinguishing MIT: William Barton Rogers and the rhetoric of republicanism in technology education”
- Mitch Ogden (PhD Candidate, English)
“Alphabetic wars: Alphabet primers, competing orthographies, and the ideologies of Hmong literacy”
Literacy & identity
- Cynthia Lewis (Professor, Curriculum & Instruction)
“Reframing sociocultural research on literacy: Identity, agency, and power”
- Tom Friedrich (PhD Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction)
“Male student writers’ encounters with limits: An interview-based, phenomenological study of their stories of writing in high school and college”
Spring 2006
- Elaine Tarone (Professor, Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, and Slavic Languages and Literatures)
“The impact of alphabetic literacy on oral language processing by learners of English as a second language”
- Sara Berrey (PhD Candidate, English)
“Revision in Emily Dickinson's Fascicle 36: Death, melancholy, and the complicit reader”
Spring 2005
- Richard Graff (Assistant Professor, Rhetoric)
“Writing, reading, and ancient theories of prose style”
- Mitch Ogden (Graduate Student, English)
“Getting past 1952: Investigation of literacy practices in the Hmong community”
- Aaron Bruenger (PhD Candidate, English)
“Tyrannical war and liberating peace: Representing militarism in the progressive era”
Fall 2004
- Edward Schiappa (Professor, Communication Studies)
“Beyond representational correctness: Audience versus expert interpretations of popular culture”
- John Logie (Assistant Professor, Rhetoric)
“‘Peers,’ ‘pirates,’ and the public: Rhetoric in peer-to-peer debates”
- Abigail Davis (PhD Candidate, English)
“Editing the prisoners of Niagara: Recovering an American Tom Jones”