The 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America convened in Baltimore, Maryland, and included two members of USU’s English Department.
Dr. Michaelann Nelson has a long association with the National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing and presented on “Catalog Conservation: The Environmental Rhetoric of Outdoor Clothing Catalogs,” a fascinating look at how readers’ understanding of environment and conservation is communicated through consumer catalogs.
Dr. Jeremy Ricketts presented “Negotiating Difference in the Composition Classroom: Connecting the Rhetoric of the Past to Issues in the Present” in a session on “Social Justice-Oriented Pedagogies,” in which he demonstrated how a speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton could be used in contemporary writing classes.
At the Council on Undergraduate Research conference, Dr. Joyce Kinkead, who is participating in a National Science Foundation evaluation project on Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), presented in a three-person panel: “Evaluate UR-CURE: Connecting Learning with Awareness of Knowledge and Workforce Skills.” The project includes two dozen sites nationally, most of them STEM-based.
Emeritus Professor Paul Crumbley presented “Fascicle 39 and the Foreignhood of Future Creation” at the 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, hosted at the University of Seville, Spain.
Co-chairs, Lecturer Cree Taylor and PhD alumni Jamal-Jared Alexander, organized the three-day Juneteenth celebration, which is “is both the somber and celebratory day to commemorate the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.” The Juneteenth celebration featured events such as a panel, a film screening, and the Utah Museum Black History Bus.
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Technical Communication and Rhetoric Calvin Pollak presented at two conferences this summer: "How Can Podcasting Help Us Re:Engage with Social Justice (Inside and Outside the Academy)?" at the Computers and Writing Conference and "Rhetorical Accessibility as Political Legitimacy: The Role of Style in NSA Surveillance Discourse" at the IEEE International Conference on Professional Communication (IPCC).
During the 2021-2022 school year Dr. Christine Cooper-Rompato was a member of the organizing board of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society Symposium on the topic of “Gender and Preaching.” The conference was held in person and on zoom at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Christine participated in several presentations, including delivering the concluding summation and response to the conference as a whole. Christine also presented a poster in the poster session that examined how Middle English sermons discuss the sin of lust in exempla drawn from the Book of Tobit.
