News and Events

2nd Annual Alumni Board Meeting

T@DMP: Professor Gary Bays on Teaching Digital Composing

How To Make a Living Doing What You Really Want To Do

Folklore Workshop by Dr. Alan Govenar ; Read more about the workshop

Visiting Writer

Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, is an exploration of the varieties of gender. A practicing psychotherapist, she lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.

Amy Bloom will read from her work on Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www.amybloom.com)

Sexuality Studies Reception

Making Human Rights Legible: Narrative Forms, Legal Norms, and the Universal Declaration.

Joseph Slaughter ; Read more about Joseph Slaughter

LiteracyStudies@OSU Spring Lecture

Heather Williams on “Acquiring Literacy, Acquiring Freedom” ; Read more about the Literacy Studies Spring Lecture.

Kane Lecture with Suvir Kaul

Featured Novelist Stephanie Grant

Featured Novelist Stephanie Grant

3rd Annual Emeriti Lecture

Murray Beja, former English Department Chair

Visiting Writer

CCCC Reception

Visiting Writers to Read from Their Work

Works in Progress by Dr. Jan Alber (University of Freiburg, Germany) and Dr. Marina Grishakova (University of Tartu, Estonia)

LiteracyStudies@OSU Lecture

Seventh Annual Graduate Medieval Conference

CMRS Film Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

The Center for Medieval and Rennaissance Studies is pleased to announce its Winter Movie Series. All movies start at 7:30 p.m. and are shown in University Hall 038. The series is free and open to the public.

Jan 15: Richard the Third (1995); Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Richard Loncraine.

Jan 29: Henry the Fifth (1944); Directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier.

Feb 12: Merchant of Venice (2004); Starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons; directed by Michael Radford.

Feb 26: Shakespeare in Love (1999): Starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; directed by John Madden.

James Morrison to Lecture on Shipwreck Narratives

CMRS Film Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

The Center for Medieval and Rennaissance Studies is pleased to announce its Winter Movie Series. All movies start at 7:30 p.m. and are shown in University Hall 038. The series is free and open to the public.

Jan 15: Richard the Third (1995); Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Richard Loncraine.

Jan 29: Henry the Fifth (1944); Directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier.

Feb 12: Merchant of Venice (2004); Starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons; directed by Michael Radford.

Feb 26: Shakespeare in Love (1999): Starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; directed by John Madden.

The Center for Folklore Studies Dinner Lecture Series

Visiting Writer

Tom Perrotta is the author of The Abstinence Teacher, Little Children, Joe College, Election, The Wishbones, and Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, among short stories, articles, and essays. Both Election and Little Children were adapted into critically acclaimed films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for Little Children, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for “Writing – Adapted Screenplay.”

Perrotta will read from his work on Thursday, February 7 at 4:30 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www.tomperrotta.net/)

OSU Library Resources for Tom Perrotta.

Photo by Debi Milligan.

CMRS Film Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

The Center for Medieval and Rennaissance Studies is pleased to announce its Winter Movie Series. All movies start at 7:30 p.m. and are shown in University Hall 038. The series is free and open to the public.

Jan 15: Richard the Third (1995); Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Richard Loncraine.

Jan 29: Henry the Fifth (1944); Directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier.

Feb 12: Merchant of Venice (2004); Starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons; directed by Michael Radford.

Feb 26: Shakespeare in Love (1999): Starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; directed by John Madden.

Poetry Reading and Open Mic hosted by The Mosaic

Women at Play Troupe to Host Lib/Con Theater Event

Visiting Writer

Rosanna Warren is the author of Snow Day (1981), Each Leaf Shines Separate (1985), The Art of Translation: Voices From the Field (1989, for which she was editor and contributor), a translation of Euripides’ Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully, 1995), and Stained Glass (1993, for which she was awarded the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets). She has edited two volumes of William Arrowsmith’s translation of the poems of Eugenio Montale (Cuttlefish Bones, 1992 and Satura 1998), and three anthologies of verse by prison inmates (In Time with Teresa Iverson, 1995; From This Distance with Meg Tyler, 1996; and Springshine with Meg Tyler, 1998). Her most recent book of poems is Departure (2003).

Other publications include The Notes of André Derain, an edited translation and essay, and articles on John Ashbery, Giacomo Leopardi, Gérard de Nerval, Stephen Spender, Derek Walcott, and Apollinaire.

In 2004 Warren received the Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2006 she received the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin. She received the 92nd Street YMHA/YWHA The Nation Discovery Award in poetry (1980), the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award for Poetry (1993), the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993), and the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club (1995). In 1997 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Professor Warren the 2004 Award of Merit of Poetry, given once every six years to an outstanding poet. In 2005 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Warren has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999-2005. In the fall of 2000 she was The New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.

Rosanna Warren will read from her work on Tuesday, January 8 at 7:30 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www.bu.edu/uni/faculty/profiles/warren.html)

OSU Library Resources for Rosanna Warren.

Photo by Mike Minehan.

Last Day of AU07

Visiting Writer

Allison Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), In Every Seam (Pittsburgh, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003) and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her honors include the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual summer residential creative writing workshop for high school writers. She holds the Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professorship at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Allison Joseph will read from her work on November 15, 2007 at 7:00 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: SIU Department of English Web site) 

OSU Library Resources for Allison Joeseph.

Lecture by Comic Artist Carol Tyler

Comic artist Carol Tyler will discuss her upcoming book, Sepia Tome: Telling Dad's World War II Story, on Thursday, November 8, 2007 in 021L Wexner, the seminar room adjacent to the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, 27 W. 17th Ave. Mall

Tyler's comics first appeared in Weirdo and Wimmen's Comix twenty years ago.  Since then she has contributed to numerous comics anthologies and published two solo works, The Job Thing in 1993 and Late Bloomer in 2005. Late Bloomer presents a rich and powerful collection of Tyler's autobiographical  comic stories beautifully published in color by Fantagraphics. The event is co-sponsored by the Ohio State Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative, the Department of Women's Studies, and the Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching in the Department of History. The event is free and open to the public.

For more details about Carol Tyler, visit http://www.bloomerland.com/index.htm

Lecture sponsored by Project Narrative

Barbara Sicherman

"Varieties of Reading Experience: Women and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America."

Sponsored by Literacy Studies @ OSU with the support of the College of
Humanities, the Department of English, and the Institute for  Collaborative
Research and Public Humanities.

Visiting Writer

John Menaghan has published two books, both with Salmon Poetry (Ireland).  Kirkus Reviews describes “All the Money in the World” (1999) as “an auspicious beginning” and the poems therein as “humorous, ironic, erotic, neurotic, and tender both by turns & often simultaneously . . . quite wonderful.”    The Hudson Review calls his second book, “She Alone” (2006) "one of the best books of 2006," containing "fifty-odd lyrics, each in a different form, each handled with unobtrusive panache," "poetry with a human center," "smart and affecting," "utterly original," and "a book in which style and substance harmonize," & the poet himself "the real thing." And Midwest Book Review calls it "a unique experience in epic poetry and enthusiastically recommended." Menaghan is the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards, and has published poems and articles in Irish, American, and Canadian journals. Menaghan’s one-act play A Rumor of Rain was performed at the Empty Stage Theater in Los Angeles (on the same bill with work by John Patrick Shanley and Neil Simon) in Fall 2006.  His third volume of poetry is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Fall 2009.

John Menaghan will read from his work on Tuesday, October 23, at 3:30 in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source:  http://www.salmonpoetry.com/shealone.html)

OSU Library Resources for John Menaghan.

Visiting Writer

A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Linda Gregerson is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature.

Of her poems, The New Yorker has written, “Gregerson’s rich aesthetic allows her best poems to resonate metaphysically.” In her new volume Magnetic North, Linda Gregerson makes clearer than ever her passionate premise that the metaphysical only and always derives from our profound embeddedness in physical reality.

Of her critical work, Bibliotheque D'Humanisme has noted: “Here we have a detailed examination of literary style and achievement in epic poetry that brings Spenser and Milton more clearly into focus.”
Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. Among her many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.

Linda Gregerson will read from her work on Thursday, October 18, at 7:00 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gregerso/)

Photo by Nina Subin.

David Eggers to Visit OSU

Study Abroad Open Day

The English Department will be holding its first Study Abroad Open Day on Thursday, October 4 from 10:00-3:00 in Denney 311.  The event
is a way for past and prospective participants in programs to mingle,
share information, and find out more about upcoming study abroad
opportunities in the department.

The Open Day will have information about this academic year's study
abroad programs: English 595 "Literary Locations: Dublin" to be
taught by Professor Seb Knowles in Winter quarter 2008; English 595
"Literary Locations: Venice" to be taught by Professor Alan Farmer in
Spring quarter 2008; as well as the six-week summer program in
Greenwich, England (2008).

Professors Knowles and Farmer will be in attendance from 10:00-12:00.

There will also be information about the financial support available
to participants in study abroad programs.
Studying in Dublin, Venice, or London may be more affordable than you think!

So please stop by for a chat, for information, and for snacks!

Visiting Writer

Lore Segal has worked as novelist, essayist, translator, and writer of children’s books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowments for the Arts, and the Humanities. Her reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the New Yorker. Her story “The Reverse Bug” was included in Best American Short Stories, 1989 and won a prize in Prize Stories 1990, The O.Henry Awards. Segal’s novels include Other People’s Houses, serialized in The New Yorker and published by Harcourt Brace in 1964, currently available from The New Press, 1994; Lucinella (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978); and Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (Knopf, 1985, The New Press, 1995). Segal’s most recent collection of stories, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, was published this spring.

Among Segal’s children’s books are Tell Me a Mitzi, illustrated by Harriet Pincus, Tell Me a Trudy, illustrated by Rosemary Wells (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970 and 1979 res.), All the Way Home , illustrated by James Marshall, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck and How She Looked for Trouble and Where She Found Him , illustrated by Marcia Sewall (Pantheon, 1981), The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, (Knopf, 1985 and Atheneum, 2004), Morris the Artist, illustrated by Boris Kulikov, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier (FSG, 2004).

She translated Gallows Songs with W.D. Snodgrass, from the German of Christian Morgenstern, (University of Michigan Press, 1959), The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973, revised edition 2003), The Book of Adam to Moses (Knopf, 1987) and The Story of King Saul and King David (Schocken, 1991).

Lore Segal will read in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311) at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2007. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://loresegal.net/)

Photo by Alisa Douer.

This Week: Folklore Center Activities

Information Session for New Students in Folklore

This Week: Folklore Center Activities

Fall Welcome Reception

(Note to newcomers, this is the Center, not the Auditorium)

Meet old and new students, faculty, and affiliates; pick up our calendar; and toast some good news.

Visiting Writer

Mark Danielewski is the author of House of Leaves, The Fifty Year Sword, Whalestoe Letters, and, most recently, Only Revolutions: A Novel, a finalist for the National Book Award. He was born in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles. Danielewski’s work is characterized by experimental choices in form, such as intricate and multi-layerd narratives, typographical variation, and inconsistent page layouts.

Danielewski will read from Only Revolutions on Wednesday, September 26, at 7:00 pm in 311 Denney Hall. The reading is jointly sponsored by the Creative Writing program and Project Narrative, and is free and open to the public.

In preparation for Danielewski’s visit, all those interested in his work are invited to particpate in a workshop on his novel, House of Leaves, on Thursday, September 20, at 4:00 pm in 311 Denney Hall. Four panelists will each speak briefly on Danielewski’s novel, followed by an open discussion. The panelists include Richard Fletcher (assistant professr, Greek and Latin), Brian Hauser (Ph.D. candiate, English), Chris Higgs (MFA candidate, English), and Paul McCormick (Ph.D. candidate, English); Brian McHale of Project Narrative will moderate the session. Jointly sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Project Narrative, the workshop is also free and open to the public.

The Departmental Picnic

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

“Drafting US Literacy,” “Sponsors of Literacy,” and “Ghostwriting and Shifting Values in Literacy.” A discussion of Deborah Brandt’s recent work.

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Expanding the Rhetorical Contexts for Writing Classrooms: Service Learning in 110 and 367.

Wendy Wolters Hinshaw, Vandana Gavaskar, Kelly Bradbury, Jim Fredal, Matt Cariello, Mindy Wright, Andy Vogel, Martha Sims, Amie Wolf.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.
Refreshments will be provided.

Lee Martin and James Phelan,

May 10, 2007 - 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall (English Department Commons Room)

In preparation for John Edgar Wideman's visit during the week of May 14th, faculty and students from the MFA program and from Project Narrative (as well as other interested parties) will meet to compare perspectives on his work. The event will start with short presentations on Wideman's " Doc's Story" by Lee Martin and by Jim Phelan and then open out to general discussion of " Doc's Story" and of another Wideman story, "Everybody Knew Bubba Riff," and of the issues raised by the presentations. This event is open to all!

Pdf versions of "Doc's Story" and "Everybody Knew Bubba Riff" are available from Anne Langendorfer; simply e-mail her at langendorfer. 2@osu.edu to request them. Members of the English Department can also access the PDFs through the Shared folder on the N drive of the College's network. They are in the subfolder called "Wideman Short Stories." Finally, the stories are also available for copying from the shelf for course readings behind Raeanne Woodman's desk in Denney 421. They are in a folder labeled "Wideman--Project Narrative."

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Understanding Second Language Writers' Engagement with College Level Writing

Alan Hirvela, Karen Macbeth, Cate Crosby, ESL Composition Program

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.
Refreshments will be provided.

Writing Now: New Developments in Mass Literacy

A Public Lecture by Deborah Brandt ; Read More About Brandt's Lecture

DEBORAH BRANDT

on Writing Today

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

Copyrights and Classrooms & Teaching Critical Literacies: Technology, Copyright, and Academic Writing ; Read More About Copyright Literacy

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

Linking Literacies in Composition, Technology, and Copyright

Creating a Teaching Web Site

presented by The Digital Media Project Staff

Lecture and Grad Workshop on L'Ouverture and Digital Whitman

Second Annual Emeriti Lecture

Emeritus Professor and Former Department Chair, Julian Markels

Comics Storytelling

Scott McCloud

Comic Artist Scott McCloud Visits Ohio State April 4

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

"Civic Literacy," with Michael Harker (Department of English) & Aaron McCain

Professor Emeritus Writes and Directs Geraldine and Jacob

The Book as an Object of Historical Inquiry

Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series

Professor Trudier Harris ; Read more about this event.

Harvey Pekar Interviewed by Professor Jared Gardner

Straight out of Cleveland, the acclaimed, brilliant and occasionally scary comics autobiographer, Harvey Pekar will be at the Mershon Auditorium on February 28, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. 

Pekar is perhaps best known from the critically acclaimed 2003 film, American Splendor, a fictionalized account of Pekar's life and work on a comic book of the same name.

Instead of a formal talk, Pekar has asked to have a conversation, and Professor Jared  Gardner of the English Department will be playing the role of James Lipton. Audience members may also participate in the conversation by submitting questions ahead of time. If you have any questions you would like to ask of Pekar about his career, American Splendor, or comics in general, please send it on either to gardner.236@osu.edu or to the Cartoon Research Library at cartoons@osu.edu.

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

A Literacy Studies Miscellany: Recent Work and Work in Progress

Writing Pedagogy Forum

From One Screen to Another: Teaching Writing through Film

Ryan Friedman, Anne-Marie Schuler, Anne Langendorfer.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.  Refreshments will be provided.

Professor Susan Williams Presents College of Humanities Inaugural Lecture

"Autonomy and Collaboration: Or, Why I Study the History of Authorship"

Why study authorship as its own subject? This lecture will explore that question, focusing in particular on the history of authorship in nineteenth-century. Was the ideal author an autonomous prophetic genius or a collaborator with his or her publishers and readers? Could such a collaboration itself provide an opportunity for increased autonomy and authority? This last question was particularly vexed for women and minority authors, who eventually led the way toward a more fluid understanding of the relation between autonomy and collaboration.

Refreshments will be served.

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Breaking The Routine: Creating Innovative Writing Assignments

Roger Cherry, Marisa Cull, Elizabeth Zimmerman, and Sharon Estes.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.  Refreshments will be provided.

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Whose Text? Plagiarism, Copyright, and Cultural Differences

Matt Cariello, Cormac Slevin, and Wendy Hesford

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.  Refreshments will be provided.

Writing Pedagogy Forum

The End(s) of New Media

Sponsored by the Digital Media Project Staff.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.  Refreshments will be provided.

Student/Faculty Reading

Hear the poetry and prose by our MFA faculty and students.

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

Literacy and Representations of Trauma with Alana Kumbier and Wendy Wolters Hinshaw ; Read More About the Seminar

Literacy and Writing Across Space and Place

Student/Faculty Reading

Hear the poetry and prose by our MFA faculty and students.

History of the Book Group

Folklore Graduate Workshop with Carl Lindahl

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

TAs Teaching Writing? Part II

Sociolinguistics and Education

with William Labov ; Sociolinguistics and Education

William Labov, widely known as an original founder of the field of sociolinguistics, will give a talk at OSU on the topic Sociolinguistics and Education. The talk will address crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of oral language patterns and literacy education.

William Labov’s research focuses on social dialectology, especially African American Vernacular English, and on the potential role of vernacular dialects in learning to read. His groundbreaking works include Language in the Inner City: Studies in Black English Vernacular (1972), Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors (1994); Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors (2001); and, with Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg, The Atlas of North American English (2006).

Co-sponsored by the Gladys Foster Anderson Fund in Teaching & Learning and the Literacy Studies Working Group.

*For more information, contact Marcia Farr farr.18@osu.edu or Lisya Seloni seloni.1@osu.edu

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Literature and Composition

(Sebastian Knowles, Nan Johnson, Anne-Marie Schuler)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Tentative Topics for Winter and Spring Forums
Teaching Multilingual Writers/ESL Pedagogy • Integrating Film into Composition Courses
Assigning and Evaluating Small Group Projects • Creating Effective Writing Assignments
Service-Learning in Composition Classes • Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Digital Media in the Writing Classroom

(Cindy Selfe, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Susan Delagrange, and Ben McCorkle)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Tentative Topics for Winter and Spring Forums
Teaching Multilingual Writers/ESL Pedagogy • Integrating Film into Composition Courses
Assigning and Evaluating Small Group Projects • Creating Effective Writing Assignments
Service-Learning in Composition Classes • Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Disability, Teaching, Writing

(Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Margo Izzo, Ken Petri)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Tentative Topics for Winter and Spring Forums
Teaching Multilingual Writers/ESL Pedagogy • Integrating Film into Composition Courses
Assigning and Evaluating Small Group Projects • Creating Effective Writing Assignments
Service-Learning in Composition Classes • Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Civic Literacy

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Teaching Style and Grammar as Rhetoric

(Kay Halasek, Jim Fredal, Kate White)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Tentative Topics for Winter and Spring Forums
Teaching Multilingual Writers/ESL Pedagogy • Integrating Film into Composition Courses
Assigning and Evaluating Small Group Projects • Creating Effective Writing Assignments
Service-Learning in Composition Classes • Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Strategies of Response to Student Texts

(Mindy Wright, Eddie Singleton, Vandana Gavaskar,
Martha Sims, Amie Wolf, Wendy Wolters Hinshaw)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Tentative Topics for Winter and Spring Forums
Teaching Multilingual Writers/ESL Pedagogy • Integrating Film into Composition Courses
Assigning and Evaluating Small Group Projects • Creating Effective Writing Assignments
Service-Learning in Composition Classes • Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Student/Faculty Reading

Michelle Herman, Sean Flanigan, Kim Brauer

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

"Visual Literacy, Cognition, and Reading"

Ohio-based Literacy Researchers Lecture Series

"The Role of Parents in Literacy Acquisition: Historical Evidence