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Writing In The Cone Of Uncertainty: An Argument For Sheltering In Place, Doreen M. Piano Sep 2014

Writing In The Cone Of Uncertainty: An Argument For Sheltering In Place, Doreen M. Piano

English Faculty Publications

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What Becomes Of The Subject?, Graham Macphee Apr 2014

What Becomes Of The Subject?, Graham Macphee

English Faculty Publications

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Shaping Presence: Ida B. Wells’ 1892 Testimony Of The ‘Untold Story’ At New York’S Lyric Hall, Anita August Apr 2014

Shaping Presence: Ida B. Wells’ 1892 Testimony Of The ‘Untold Story’ At New York’S Lyric Hall, Anita August

English Faculty Publications

Ida B. Wells stood before a crowd of the social hierarchy of black women from Boston, Brooklyn, New York City, and Philadelphia at New York’s Lyric Hall on October 5, 1892.

Wells’ 1892 testimonial, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases, is the founding rhetorical text in the anti-lynching movement that called for a moral, religious, and legal referendum on lynching in America. By forsaking all of the commonplace rationale for lynching and the Southern social comfort that came with it, Wells reframed the simplistic characterizations of lynching with new questions to demonstrate its structural features. With the …


Rethinking Alternative Contact In Native American And Chinese Encounters: Juxtaposition In Nineteenth-Century Us Newspapers, Cari M. Carpenter, K. Hyoejin Yoon Jan 2014

Rethinking Alternative Contact In Native American And Chinese Encounters: Juxtaposition In Nineteenth-Century Us Newspapers, Cari M. Carpenter, K. Hyoejin Yoon

English Faculty Publications

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The Historical Formation Of Academic Identities: Rhetoric And Composition, Discourse And Writing, Louise Wetherbee Phelps Jan 2014

The Historical Formation Of Academic Identities: Rhetoric And Composition, Discourse And Writing, Louise Wetherbee Phelps

English Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) This talk originated in my work as a consultant at the University of Winnipeg, where I spent six weeks on a Fulbright Specialist grant in Spring 2011. I was invited to advise the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications on its plans for “program architecture renewal,” which included critically assessing its programs, articulating levels of the curriculum, and charting future directions for the department. The grant had larger goals as well, charging me to study the development of writing and rhetorical studies in Canada as an emerging field seeking both definition and visibility. The Winnipeg faculty hoped that …