The St. John’s University English Department is pleased to announce that fourteen representatives from our college and from the Institute of Writing Studies are to present on a range of topics at the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCCs). The conference is being held in Houston, Texas starting April 6th and concluding on the 9th.
CCCCs brings together some of the foremost thinkers in college rhetoric and composition studies for a 3-day symposium where innovation, community and growth are abound.
Members of the academic community are welcome and encouraged to attend the many presentations representatives from our university are giving. Each promises to be both fascinating and valuable. Learn more by viewing the listings below:
WEDNESDAY
Nathalie Virgintino, Derek Owens
Date of Presentation: Wednesday, April 6th
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 AM
Evynn McFalls, Michael Reich, Patricia Medved
Best Practices in 21st Century Writing Centers and RAD Research
Date of Presentation: Wednesday, April 6th
Time: TBA
THURSDAY
Sheeba Varkey
Workplace Writing and the Veteran: Authorship and Identity in Resume narratives
Date of Presentation: Thursday, April 7th
Time: 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Anne Ellen Geller
Making Meaningful Writing Happen: Action Plans for Writing Advocacy
Date of Presentation: Thursday, April 7th
Time: 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Kainat Abidi
Silence as Defense: The Compositional Considerations of Women on Social Media
Date of Presentation: Thursday, April 7th
Time: 1:45-3:00 PM
Laura Lisabeth
Date of Presentaton: Thursday, April 7th
Time: 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Anne Ellen Geller
Meeting of the International Writing Across the Curriculum Progams
Date of Presentation: Thursday, April 7th
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY
Nicholas Young
Race and Writing Methods: Investigating Racism through Autoethnography, History and Technology
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8th
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Patricia Medved, Michael Reich and Jason Wirtz
(Re) Actions: A Closer Look at Student Invention Across Sites
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Collin Craig
Long-Term Research Collaborations: Strategy, Identity, Failure and Moves Toward Future Action
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8th
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Collin Craig
Long-Term Research Collaborations: Strategy, Identity, Failure and Moves Toward Future Action
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8th
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Derek Owens
No Longer ‘Experimental’: Collage as Normative Practice, from First-Year Writing to Dissertation
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8th
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15
Nancy Alvarez
The Translingual Writing Center
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8th
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Nicholas Young
Writing Draftnik: Twitter Literacies, Capital Formation, and Corporate Resistance
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8th
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Anna Sicari, PhD.
Feminist Action for Women Writing Administrators: Movements for Change in the Academy
Date of Presentation: Friday, April 8th
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
SATURDAY
Collin Craig
Institutional Whiteness and the Uneven Work of “Diversity”
Date of Presentation: Saturday, April 9th
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
We extend our congratulations to each of the presenters this year and encourage St. John’s students and faculty to follow in their footsteps by bringing their intellectually inquiry into open conversation with the larger academic community.
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