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Lecturer Achievements 2015-16

Lecturers in Stanford's Program in Writing & Rhetoric maintain an active scholarly life that builds from and complements their classroom pedagogy.  Below, you can browse many of their different accomplishments from between April 2015 through April 2016.

Awards & Recognitions (April 2015-April 2016) 

Lindsey Mantoan

  • artsCatalyst Award, Stanford Arts Institute (Winter 2016)

Selby Schwartz

  • artsCatalyst Award, Stanford Arts Institute (Winter 2016)

Kathleen Tarr

  • artsCatalyst Award, Stanford Arts Institute (Winter 2016; Spring and Fall 2015)
  • Official Selection, Early Aliens, ASTRONOMMO: Speculative Fiction on Film + Black Women, San Francisco, CA (2015)
  • Pie From Pi Phi, Pi Beta Phi, Stanford University (2015)
  • Programming and Events Mini Grant, Stanford Arts Institute (2015)
  • Program in Writing and Rhetoric Research Award (2015)

Conference Presentations & Invited Talks (April 2015-April 2016)

Alfano, Christine and Bleakney, Julia. “Flipping the MOOC: Reimagining Online Writing Videos as Sites of Active Learning and Invention.” College Composition and Communication conference, Tampa, FL (March 2015).

Bleakney, Julia. “Integrating Writing and Speaking,” University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Workshop leader for Provostial taskforce on total advising (December 2015).

Bleakney, Julia. “Charting our Evolution: From Directing the Writing Center to Leading the Campus.” International Writing Centers Association conference, Pittsburg, PA (October 2015)—panel organizer and presenter.

Bleakney, Julia. “Tutor Impact on Undergraduate Student Revision Choices.” International Writing Centers Association Collaboratory Works-in-Progress, Tampa, FL. (March 2015)—with Sarah Pittock.

Bleakney, Julia. “Outreach: Talking about Writing, and Using Talk to Teach Writing.” Northern California Writing Centers Association conference at California State University, Fresno (March 2015)—with Sarah Pittock, Allie Fijolek, Kyle Michelson, and Marie Hubbard.

Carter, Julian, Rebekah Edwards, Michelle LaVigne, and Selby Wynn Schwartz. “Affective Architecture Workshop.” WTF! Worldings, Tensions, Futures: Affect Theory Conference at Millersville University in Lancaster, PA. October 2015. 

Carter, Julian, Amie Dowling, and Selby Wynn Schwartz. “Dance and Guerilla Dramaturgy.” Cut and Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity Conference in Athens, Greece, June 2015. Joint conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) and Congress on Research in Dance (CORD).

Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica. "Narrating the Story of Stanford’s Hume Center for Writing & Speaking." International Writing Center Association @ 4Cs Collaborative. 6-9 April 2016. Houston, TX. Accepted WiP workshop.

Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica. "Documenting Change: Institutional Ideologies As Read Through Public Documents." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. 26-29 May 2016. Atlanta, GA. Accepted panel. 

Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica. "Rhetorically Negotiating Constraining Conventions: A Workshop on Writing Feminist Research Proposals.” Feminisms and Rhetorics 2015. 28-31 October. Arizona State University.

Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica. “Identifying Discursive “Fissures” to Make Institutional Change for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference 2015. 12-15 November. Milwaukee, WI.

Davie-Kessler, Jesse. "'Now You Take the Place of Joshua': Prayer and Christian History Among Nigerian Pentecostals." American Anthropological Association. Denver, Colorado. 21 November 2015. Conference Presentation.

DiPirro, Kevin. “Any Cruddy, Professor” Video. 3 min. Stanford PWR 2’s Parody Response to Harvard’s Amy Cuddy's TED talk on Power Poses. 

DiPirro, Kevin. Early Shaker Hymns and Spirituals. Performance. Wooster Group. Redcat, LA, January 2015. Respondent.

DiPirro, Kevin. "Wooster Group in Conversation.” Conference. Stanford University. February 2015.  Respondent. 

DiPirro, Kevin. “PWR at Play.” Community-Building Lecturer Workshop. Stanford University. May 2015. Organizer and facilitator. 

Fahim, Norah. "Learning through Teacher Narratives: Preparing Mainstream FYC Novice Instructors for Diverse and Inclusive Multilingual Classrooms", The American Association of Applied Linguistics, Orlando, Florida, April 9-12. Conference Presentation.

Fahim, Norah.  "Pre-convention Workshop: Developing Practical Pedagogical Approaches for International L2 Writers in the Classroom and Beyond," (with Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri, Paul K. Matsuda, Greer Murphey, Katherine Silvester, Steve Simpson, Mariya Tseptsura, and Jennifer Zinchuk), Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, Texas, 6-9 April 2016.

Fahim, Norah. "Re-inventing FYC Teacher Development: Bridging Disciplinary Divides", The Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Boise, Idaho, 12-19 July 2015. Conference Presentation.

Fahim, Norah. "Rethinking Teaching & Learning Practices for Diverse Populations in the University: A Roundtable on Taking Pedagogical & Administrative Action,” (with Greer Murphy, Katherine Daily O'Meara, Brooke Ricker, Shawna Shapiro, Sarah Snyder, and Dan Zhu), Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston. 6-9 April 2016. Conference Presentation.

Formato, Megan. “The Physicist at Work: Iconography and Practice” Panel on Scientific Workspaces: Reconstruction and Representation. History of Science Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. 21 November 2015. Panel Organizer and Presenter.

Hunter, Donna. “Academics and Black Lives Matter.” Stanford Engaged Scholarship Conference. Stanford, CA. 5 November 2015.

Hunter, Donna. “Exploring Activist Scholarship: Examples, Methods and Lessons Learned.” UAA Activist Scholar Workshop. Urban Affairs Association Conference. 16 March 2016.

Johnson, Jennifer. “The Co-Construction of Hearing Mother Identity: The Shared Interviewer-Interviewee in-Between Space” in “Authenticity, Language Landscapes and Language Ideologies.” American Anthropological Association. Denver, Colorado. 21 November 2015. Conference Presentation.

Kamrath, Christopher and Shawn Shimpach. “Characters Welcome:  The Recirculation of Popular Figures of Value.” National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Las Vegas, NV. November 20, 2015. Conference Presentation.

Lewis, Clara. “Negotiating Academic Constraints: Louis Bury with Clara S. Lewis”An interview conducted on the occasion of the release of  Louis Bury’s  Exercises in Criticism: The Theory and Practice of Literary Constraint. Published online in the Spring 2015 edition of “The Conversant.”

Lewis, Clara. “The Promise of Racial Purity: The U.S. Eugenics Movement and the Positive Value Attributed to Whiteness” Roundtable on the Promises of Science: Historical Perspectives. History of Science Society Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. November 2015.

Lewis, Clara. “The Myth of Entitlement: Student Perceptions of Grades at an Elite University” Multi-media poster presented at the annual national meeting of the American Sociology Association in Chicago, IL. August 2015.

Mantoan, Lindsey. “No Her: No Hero: Performing American Exceptionalism in the Bin Laden Raid” in “What is Worth Fighting For? Debating the Stakes within Theatres of War” working group. American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Portland, OR. November 2015.

O’Connor, Megan, and Jennifer Stonaker. “Using ePortfolios and Folio-Thinking to Highlight and Advance Science Communication Skills.” Crossing Boundaries: Transforming STEM Education. American Association of Colleges and Universities. Westin, Seattle. 13 Nov. 2015. Poster Presentation.

O’Connor, Megan, and Jennifer Stonaker. “ePortfolios and Folio-Thinking: Advancing Science Communication at Stanford.” IdeaLab. ATXpo. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University. 12 Oct. 2015. Poster Presentation.

Peterson, John. “Reconsidering Professional Credentials of Writing Program Faculty.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2016, Houston, TX. Unpublished conference paper. Stanford University Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford, 2016. Print.

Polk, Emily. “Academics and social movements in the digitally mediated age: A comparative analysis of institutional responses to Occupy and #Blacklivesmatter” presented at Stanford Engaged Scholarship Conference, 15 November 2015. Conference Presentation.

Polk, Emily. “Interrogating the rhetoric of ‘inclusion’ in environmental movements,” for Sustainability and Social Justice course, Ethicsoc11Q, 25 Feb. 2015. Invited Talk.

Polk, Emily. “Social Media and Food Movements: Waste and Taste in the Sustainable Food Movement.” Food Studies Conference at University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. 2016.

Richardson, Rebecca.“Staging Travel in Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her?” Roundtable, “Performance Spaces” at Dickens Universe, Santa Cruz. August 2015. Conference Presentation.

Richardson, Rebecca. “The Legacies of Adapting Great Expectations.” The Long, Wide Nineteenth Century. Santa Cruz. July 2015. Conference Presentation.

Schwartz, Selby Wynn, Amie Dowling, and Julian Carter. “Dramaturgy and Performance Research.” Invited talk, Undergraduate Research Seminar (Theater 166) for the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley. November 2015.

Tarr, Kathleen. “Getting Played: Second Annual Symposium on Equity in the Entertainment Industry and Awards.” Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 27 February 2016. Moderator, event planner. <http://kantonia.wix.com/symposium2016>

Tarr, Kathleen. “Employment Discrimination in the Entertainment Industry with Kathleen A. Tarr.” Stanford Entertainment and Sports Law Association/Stanford Black Law Students Association. Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA. 13 November 2015. Presenter.

Tarr, Kathleen. “Delights, Diversions, and Discriminations: The Bias and Business of Show.”  General Session, State Bar of California Annual Meeting. Anaheim Marriott, Anaheim, CA. 8 October 2015. Presenter.

Tarr, Kathleen. “Race and Media.” Goldman School of Public Policy 5th Annual Race and Policy Symposium: Implicit Bias and Its Consequences: What's Race Got to Do With It? Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 16 April 2015. Panelist.

Publications & Exhibitions (April 2015-April 2016)

Alfano, Christine and Alyssa O'Brien.  Envision: Writing and Researching Arguments.  5th ed. NY: Pearson, 2016.

Alfano, Christine and Alyssa O'Brien.  Envision in Depth: Reading, Writing, and Researching Arguments.  4th ed. NY: Pearson, 2016.

Carter, Julian, Amie Dowling, and Selby Wynn Schwartz. “Dance and Guerilla Dramaturgy.” Conference Proceedings from Cut and Paste: Dance Advocacy in the Age of Austerity Conference in Athens, Greece, June 2015. Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) and Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). Forthcoming.

Cirillo-McCarthy, Erica, Elise Versoza-Hurley & Amanda Wray. “Rhetorics of Interruption: Navigating Sexism in the Academy.” Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership. Eds. Holly Hassell and Kirsti Cole. Forthcoming 2016.

---.“Multimodal ≠ Multivocal: Incorporating an Ethic of Inclusion to Facilitate Critical Framing.” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies 3.1 Special Issue on Multimodality, with guest editors Santosh Khadka & JC Lee. (July) 2015. 

Crandall, Maxe. Bodies Overboard. 2015. Silkscreen with Artist Statement. Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics. 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union and Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago.

---. "On Emmett Ramstad." Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends and Mythologies. Ed. Chris E. Vargas. Los Angeles: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, 2015. Print.

Crandall, Maxe, and Selby Wynn Schwartz. “Moving Transgender Histories: Sean Dorsey’s Trans Archival Practice.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.4 (2015): 565-77. DOI: 10.1215/23289252-3151493. http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/2/4/565.abstract

Ellis, Erik, and Dave Underwood. “Completely Out of My Domain: An Institutional Narrative of Multimedia Collaboration.”  Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 20.1 (2015): n. pag. Web. <http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/20.1/coverweb/ellis-underwood/index.html>

Fahim, Norah. "Keepin’ It Real: Developing Authentic Translingual Experiences for Multilingual Students." co-authored with Bonnie Vidrine and Dan Zhu. Chapter in edited collection, Pedagogies: Engaging Domestic and International Students in Translingual & Translocal Writing. Edited by Suzanne Blum Malley, Alanna Frost and Julia Kiernan. In Press.

---. “The Re-invention of FYC Teacher Development: Listening to Teachers' Anxieties by Bridging Cross-Disciplinary Divides Amidst an Increasingly Globalized University .” In Special Issue: Emotion in Composition, Composition Forum. Edited by Lance Langdon. In Press.

Hunter, Donna and Emily Polk. “Academics and Social Movements in the Digitally Mediated Age.” Forthcoming in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.

Lewis, Clara. "Danny MacAskill and the Visuality of the Extreme." Sport in Society. August, 2015.  Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17430437.2015.1067779

Messing, Solomon, and Ethan Plaut. “What Color Is Obama? These Researchers Examined Reactions When His Skin Looks Darker.” The Washington Post 11 Jan. 2016. washingtonpost.com. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.

Messing, Solomon, Maria Jabon, and Ethan Plaut. "Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns." Public Opinion Quarterly (2015): nfv046.

Plaut, Ethan R. "Technologies of avoidance: The swear jar and the cell phone." First Monday 20.11 (2015).

---. "Enlightenment, the Remix: Transparency as a DJ's Trick of Seeing Everyone From Nowhere." Communication, Culture & Critique (2015).

Polk, EmilyCommunicating Global to Local Resiliency: A Case Study of the Transition Network. Lexington Books, May 2015. Print.

Richardson, Rebecca. “‘Sent Here For Her Health’: Accounting for Sanditon’s Economies.” Forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism.

Sukhonos, NatalyaParachute (poetry chapbook). Hemet, CA: Aldrich Press, May 2016.

Tarr, Kathleen. “‘A Little More Every Day’ – How you can eliminate bias in your own classroom.” The Chronicle of Higher Education: Advice. 23 September 2015: n. pag. Washington, D.C.: Chronicle of Higher Education. Web. <http://chronicle.com/article/A-Little-More-Every-Day-/233303/>

---. “Logic and Its Discontents: Jurisprudential Tensions Between Emotion and Reason.” University of San Francisco Law Review Forum 50 (10 November 2015): 8-12. University of San Francisco School of Law. PDF file and web. <http://lawblog.usfca.edu/lawreview/logic-and-its-discontents-jurisprudential-tensions-between-emotion-and-reason/>

---. “Teach a Law Student to Fish: A Tutor’s Perspective on Legal Writing.” University of San Francisco Law Review Forum 49 (13 April 2015): 53-55. University of San Francisco School of Law. PDF file and web. <http://lawblog.usfca.edu/lawreview/teach-a-law-student-to-fish-a-tutors-...

Tarr, Kathleen Antonia, dir. Early Aliens. What The ... Productions, Novel Approach, LLC, 2015. Film.

Wadden, Paul, and John Peterson. "Education Proposals the Opposite of 'Workforce Needs'” Editorial. The Japan News [Tokyo] 02 Feb. 2016: n. pag. The Japan News. The Yomiuri Shimbun, 02 Feb. 2016. Web. 03 Feb. 2016.

Watters, Ann O. Celtic Heart. 2015. Venetian smalti piastrina glass and gold mosaic on fiberglass. Heroes and Hearts, San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, San Francisco.

---. O. Poppies. 2015. Venetian smalti glass mosaic on Wediboard. Coast Side Land Trust Art Gallery, Half Moon Bay, California.

---. Sunflowers. 2015. Venetian smalti glass mosaic on Wediboard. Institute of Mosaic Art, Berkeley, California.

Service to the Field & Community Work (April 2015-April 2016)

Christine Alfano

  • Member, CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence Committee 2015-2016

Julia Bleakney

  • External Program Reviewer, Writing Center, University of San Francisco (November 2015)
  • At-large Representative (elected), International Writing Centers Association (2014-)
  • Co-chair, Mentor Matching Project, International Writing Centers Association (2015-)

Emily Polk

  • Co-organizing with other faculty in SE3,  “Rooted Words,” a community-led public reading series at the Stanford Educational Farm in an effort to build community and strengthen connections between the farm and the school through writing and reading. (First reading event is this Wed. February 24 at 5 p.m. Please come!)
  • In conversation with the organization Climate Central about partnering with my Communicating Climate Change course, and making it a Stanford Cardinal course.
  • Interviewed for the Stanford Storytelling podcast on the theme of “Teaching.”

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