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Digital Media and Composition announces visiting scholar talks
DMC was pleased to host five Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition on the OSU campus this year. Visiting scholars have the opportunity to undertake concentrated or extended projects involving digital and multimodal texts within the technology-rich setting of a Big Ten research-oriented institution. Visiting Scholars can designate the length of their stay (from two weeks to one year depending on the scope of their projects). During this time, they will have access to technical support, office space, various print and digital resources, and like-minded colleagues in digital media studies. For more information about the program please visit the Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition section.
Each of these scholars will be visiting to give their campus talk in the next few months. The partial schedule for these visits is as follows:
Cheryl Ball (Illinois State University)
Friday, 1 February 2008
Noon-1:30 (Denney 311) "Finding a Job in Rhetoric and Composition Thinking Ahead and Thinking Smart," an informal lunch with RCL graduate students and faculty During this informal conversation, professor Ball will focus on successful tactics and strategies for seeking jobs in the broadly related arenas of rhetoric, composition, and literacy, as well as in the more focused field of digital media studies
3:30-5:00 pm (Denney 311) Formal talk, "What's the point of new media?: Evaluating transitional, digital scholarship
In this presentation, Professor Ball will address the recent MLA Task Force report, Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion (2006), which acknowledges an increasing need for thoughtful new strategies of evaluating digital scholarship in departments of English.
Professor Ball will look at a contemporary heuristic (Warner, 2007) for reading and evaluating "new media texts" (those texts that represent a transition between traditional print-like webtexts and texts that use multimodal elements to enact and convey meaning).
This talk will especially relevant for colleagues who might be involved in reading and evaluating new media texts during tenure and promotion cases. The presentation will be exploratory--just like the new media texts that it investigates--and discussion from the audience will be encouraged.
Jonathan Alexander (University of California-Irvine), Friday, 29 February 2008
Noon-1:30 (Denney 311) "Rhetoric, Composition, Literacy and the Job Market: Finding Where You Belong," an informal lunch with RCL graduate students and faculty.
2:00-3:30 pm (Denney 311) Formal talk, "Jean Cocteau, Queerness, Multimedia"
***** Adam Banks (Syracuse University), Friday, 28 March 2008
Noon-1:30 (Denney 447) "Thinking about Jobs in Rhetoric, Composition, Literacy" an informal lunch with RCL graduate students and faculty.
2:00-3:30 pm (Denney 311) Formal talk, title to be announced.
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Debra Journet (University of Louisville), Friday, 2 May 2008
Noon-1:30 (Denney 311) "Rhetoric, Composition, Literacy and the Job Market: Playing It Smart," an informal lunch with RCL graduate students and faculty.
2:00-3:30 pm (Denney 311) Formal talk, title to be announced
