Conference Program
| Friday, September 27 | |
| 7:30 | Centre/Arbor
Breakfast (Fresh cut seasonal fruit, yogurt, granola, bananas, bran muffins; assorted cereals; fresh roasted coffee, decaf, tea, and assorted juices)
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| 8:30 | Centre/Arbor
Welcome address by Cheryl Glenn, Director of Penn State Program in Writing and Rhetoric |
| 9:00-10:15 | Keynote Presentations
Chair: Xiaoye You, Pennsylvania State University
The Semantic Borders of White Nationalism Keith Gilyard, Pennsylvania State University
Strangers in a Strange Land: “The Foreign Student” at US Universities During the Cold War Era Amy J. Wan, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center
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| 10:30-12:00 | Concurrent Sessions
Centre (Chair: Keith Gilyard) Nationalism / Orientalism / Resistance: Syrian Student Writing in English and Arabic at the Turn of the Twentieth Century *Lisa R. Arnold, North Dakota State University Writing Instruction Under a Fascist Colonial Regime: Evidence from a Korean Women’s College During Japanese Occupation, 1936–1943 Nathan Tillman, University of Maryland, College Park Resistance Through Narrative: Examining Filipino Student Writing in the American Colonial Classroom Florianne Jimenez, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arbor (Chair: Brooke Ricker Schreiber) Engaging the Meso-Politics of Transnational Writing Research Nancy Bou Ayash, University of Washington From Equitable Access to Cosmopolitan Engagement: What U.S.-based Scholars Might Learn from Indonesian Scholars Amber Engelson, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Graduate Teacher Scholars’ Understandings of Translingual Pedagogy Havva Zorluel Ozer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Holmes (Chair: Eunjeong Lee) Interrogating Literal and Figurative Borders: Creating Agency Through Language and Writing Carolyn Salazar St. John’s University Tejan Waszak, St. John’s University Sheeba Varkey, St. John’s University
Logan (Chair: Sara Alvarez) Situating transnational education: networking mobile languages, identities, and writing Cristina Sanchez-Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Observing Students’ Everyday Literacies Through a Translingual Lens Julie Saternus, Kent State University Perspectives in Writing: Open Modalities, Open Minds Jessica Sands, Cornell University |
| 12:15-1:15 | Willow/Sylvan
Luncheon Mad Mex Super Taco Bar (Chicken, steak, tofu; grilled fajita veggies, soft & hard taco shells; rice, beans, lettuce, cheese; sour cream & guacamole; tortilla chips with 2 salsas and cheese dip)
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| 1:30-2:45 | Keynote Presentations
Centre/Arbor Chair: Brooke Ricker Schreiber
Multilingualism Beyond Walls: Undocumented Young Adults Subverting Writing Education Sara P. Alvarez, Queens College, CUNY
Writing for Personal Change and Writing for Social Change: Peace-Building in Colombia among High School Students and Literary Writers Kate Vieira, University of Wisconsin
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| 3:00-4:30 | Concurrent Sessions
Centre (Chair: David Martins) Learning from Multilingual Stories: Sustaining Students’ Translingual Practices through an Ethnographic Project *Eunjeong Lee, Queens College, CUNY Maps within the Writing Classroom Dhipinder Walia, Lehman College Negotiating Academic Literacies across Translocal Contexts Madhav Kafle, Rutgers University
Arbor (Chair: Lisa Arnold) Assembly Line Americans: Labor and Language at the Ford Motors English School Vincent Portillo, Syracuse University Constructing a Regional Narrative, Resisting the Colonial Narrative Ana Cortes Lagos, Syracuse University Materializing the Transnational in Graduate Education Brice Nordquist, Syracuse University
Holmes (Chair: Amy Wan) Reframing Transnational Experiences: Writing Programs, International TAs, and Comparative Pedagogies Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Miami University Megan Schoettler, Miami University Hua Zhu, Miami University
Logan (Chair: Kate Vieira) Feeling “Whole-some”: How Writing Across Borders Can Mend Literate Separation Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, University of Massachusetts Amherst Beyond the Firewall: Learning from the Narratives of Online Immigrant Writing Students Kevin Eric DePew, Old Dominion University The Value of Limited Discomfort in International Educational Partnerships Joleen Hanson, University of Wisconsin-Stout
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| 4:45-6:15 | Research and Pedagogy Roundtable
Willow/Sylvan |
| Saturday, September 28 | |
| 8:00 | Centre/Arbor
Breakfast (Fresh cut seasonal fruit, yogurt, granola, bananas, bran muffins; assorted cereals; fresh roasted coffee, decaf, tea, and assorted juices) |
| 9:00-10:15 | Keynote Presentations
Centre/Arbor Chair: David Martins, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Writing on the Wall: Limits of Identity Politics and Diversity Rhetoric Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University The Colonial Legacies of Psychometrics and the Potential of Cross-National/Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations for Fairness and Justice Mya Poe, Northeastern University
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| 10:30-12:00 | Concurrent Sessions
Centre (Chair: Shakil Rabbi) Friction in the Translingual Classroom: Leveraging Unequal Encounters across Difference through Translation Activities *Steve Fraiberg, Michigan State University Stewardship and Civic Engagement: A Force for Social Change Gerardina L. Martin, West Chester University Working Towards Peace through Peace Education and Transnational Writing Education Jimalee Sowell and Danning Liang, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Arbor (Chair: Xiaoye You) Moving Beyond the Constraints of Traditional College-Prep Composition Instruction: Classroom as Cosmopolitan Community Marina Palenyy, CUNY The Cosmopolitan Composition of Writing about Writing Jamila Kareem, University of Central Florida Writing Across Difference Through a Multilingual Classroom Community Cookbook Caleb Gonzalez, The Ohio State University
Holmes (Chair: Jay Jordan) Engaging Writing Students in The #MeToo Movement and the Fight for Ethnic Studies Vani Kannan, Lehman College, CUNY Where are all the Arabs?: Organizing Arab/Arab American College Students Tamara Issak, St. John’s University Decentering Masculine Logics from the Ground-up: A Case Study of Teaching Writing and Rhetoric in the Borderland Raymond Rosas, Pennsylvania State University
Logan (Chair: Suresh Canagarajah) Lessons (not) Learned from Nationalistic Language Policies in Sri Lanka Libby Miles, University of Vermont An Analysis of Published Academic Work in a Local Iraqi Journal: A Transnational Perspective Rajwan Alshareefy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Implement translanguaging in Chinese EPT context: a potential way for transnational faculty to promote a more open-minded writing education Beilei Guo, University of Rochester
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| 12:15-1:15 | Willow/Sylvan
Luncheon Italian Buffet (Romaine lettuce with Caesar dressing on side; fresh cut broccoli salad with aged cheddar; hearty minestrone soup; stuffed Shells with a roasted tomato parmesan cream; meat lasagna; sauteed zucchini, yellow squash and cherry tomatoes; assorted desserts; rolls and butter; fresh roasted coffee, tea, and iced tea)
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| 1:30-3:00 | Concurrent Sessions
Centre Literacy Brokering for International Graduate Students: Examining Feedback and Uptake Activities in Case Studies of Writing for Publication *Shakil Rabbi, Bowie State University “They Kind of Make me Hate Writing”: Disciplinary Faculty Mediation of Linguistically-diverse College Students’ Writing Development Julie Baer, Northeastern University The Yin-Yang of Writing Education in Globalization Xiaoye You, Pennsylvania State University
Arbor (Chair: Ruiying Niu) Steps towards a Cosmopolitan Pedagogy of English: Linking Composition Classes with EFL Classes Overseas to Present Writing as an Act of Mediation Massimo Verzella, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Transcending Writing Boundaries – Examinations of a Transnational Writing Project Xinqiang Li, Michigan State University Developing Transnational Writing Pedagogies through International Virtual Exchange Projects: Institutional and Classroom Perspectives Olga Aksakalova and Tuli Chatterji, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Holmes (Chair: Mya Poe) Un-scaling Nationalism: Learning from the Precarity and Transience of Work in Postsecondary Writing Education Tony Scott, Syracuse University Beyond the Neoliberal Discourse of Difference in Writing Programs and Classrooms Zhaozhe Wang, Purdue University Tumbleweed: A Poetic-Narrative Autoethnography on Transnational Identity Oksana Moroz, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Logan (Chair: Steve Fraiberg) The Question of “Code” in Linguistics, Languages, and Writing Studies Christiane Donahue, Dartmouth College and Université de Lille Writing Against the Border: Immigration Advocacy and Cosmopolitan Rhetoric Layli Maria Miron, Pennsylvania State University Reinventing the Student Experience Monique I. Scoggin, Nova Southeastern University
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| 3:15-4:30 | Keynote Presentations
Centre/Arbor Chair: Xiaoye You, Pennsylvania State University
“Haewaepa” as Heuristic: English Competence and Neoliberalism in South Korea Jay Jordan, University of Utah
East Meets West: Creating and Supporting Chinese-American Joint Degree Programs in an Era of Nationalism Brooke Ricker Schreiber, Baruch College, CUNY Brody Bluemel, Delaware State University
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| 4:30 | Centre/Arbor
Conclusion |