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