For our instructors, fall quarter marked not only the start of a new academic year, but also a time to continue working on their own professional projects and interests. Read below to see what PWR lecturers have been up to since September.
Mutallip Anwar was invited to a dinner roundtable with Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Jennifer Doudna, Fei-Fei Li, where he offered his insights on the dangers of facial recognition software and the current plight of the Uyghurs in China.
Jenae Cohn presented in the IdeaLab at ATXPo 2019 (Santa Clara University) on Teaching TECHnique Webinars: 15-Minute Faculty Development for Teaching with Technology.
Samah Elbelazi is a 2020 recipient of the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. From the press release: "CCCC sponsors the Scholars for the Dream Awards to encourage scholarship by historically underrepresented groups. This includes Black, Latinx, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander scholars—persons whose presence and whose contributions are central to the full realization of our professional goals. CCCC offers to scholars up to twenty travel awards of $1,000 each, sponsors a reception for all award winners, and offers a one-year membership in NCTE and CCCC. The Awards Selection Committee considers originality of research, significance of pedagogical or theoretical contributions to the field, and potential for larger, subsequent projects. [Samah] Elbelazi will be announced as a recipient of the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award on Thursday, March 26, during the 2020 CCCC Annual Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
Andy Hamman is finalizing an article that he will be submitting to the Journal of American History. His article takes a rhetorical approach to the issue of American slavery scholarship, addressing widely recognized but unresolved terminological problems that have plagued this area of study for seventy years. The article is titled: "The Problem of ANTISLAVERY and PROSLAVERY in American Historiography: A New Interpretive Framework and a New Term."
In September 2019, Harriett Jernigan won the innovative writing pedagogy award at her former university in Magdeburg, Germany.
In early December, Jennifer Johnson was a guest discussant for Arizona State University's Interdisciplinary Committee on Linguistics film night attended by grads/undergrads in education, linguistics and anthropology. She discussed her research centered on Deafness, disability, technology and language in relation to the issues presented in the 2000 documentary "Sound and Fury." Jennifer also presented a paper in a “Language and Learning” panel at the American Anthropology Association and Canadian Anthropology Society joint annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada in November. Her paper was titled: “Thick description as writing and research pedagogy: methods for supporting linguistic diversity in the classroom”.
Sarah Pittock has joined the review boards of The WAC Journal, The Writing Center Journal, and WLN: A Writing Center Journal.
Becky Richardson writes, "In October, I attended the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference. I was part of a roundtable on literature "Beyond Britain" and shared work-in-progress on Harriet Martineau and ideas about healthy economies and environments. I also presented a paper on adaptations of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair in the wake of #MeToo." To read more about Becky's work, see our Teacher, Writer, Scholar feature on her in this issue of the newsletter.
