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Bios for the two keynoters (including mine) are below.
David Beard
Dr. David Beard is an associate professor of rhetoric in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He researches the history, theory and pedagogy of rhetoric as an interdisciplinary formation. According to his scholarly portfolio, Dr. Beard’s work develops into two strands:
Historical: Draws upon traditions in composition, speech-communication and cultural studies to articulate the history and the theoretical boundaries of “rhetorical pedagogy” across written, oral and media communication.
Theoretical and Critical: Rethinks audience theory for the 21st century by drawing upon rhetorical and communication theories of audience to reconsider popular media audiences, the role of sound and listening in audience behavior, and the payoff for the writing classroom.Dr. Beard has published in journals like the International Journal of Listening, Archival Science, Philosophy and Rhetoric (where he won the Rohrer Award with his co-author, William Keith), Southern Journal of Communication, and Enculturation, among other venues. Additionally, he has placed essays in What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors (USUP), Engaging Audience: Writing in an Age of New Literacies (NCTE), Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum (Boynton/Cook) and the SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies. With Richard Enos, he edited Advances in the History of Rhetoric (Parlor Press).
Mike Lee
Dr. Michael J. Lee teaches and researches in the areas of rhetoric and political communication at the College of Charleston. He holds a Ph.D. (Communication) from the University of Minnesota as well as M.A. (Communication) and B.A. (Political Science) degrees from the University of Georgia. His book, Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement (2014) earned four national book awards in the field. Additionally, Dr. Lee has several award-winning conference papers in his research areas. His essays have been published in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Feminist Media Studies, and the Journal of Applied Communication Research. Dr. Lee has also given frequent media interviews on a number of political topics.
My talk:
ReplyDeleteCollaboration, (Imagined) Community and the Construction of Scholarly Identity:
Steampunk Rhetoric as a Metaphor for Rhetorical Studies:
Bruce Sterling said to a convention of Steampunks: If you like to play dress-up, good for you. You're probably young, and, being young, you have some identity issues. So while pretending to be a fireman, or a doctor, or a lawyer, or whatever your parents want you to be, you should be sure to try on a few identities that are totally impossible. You will meet interesting people your own age who share your vague discontent with today's status quo. Clutch them to your velvet-frilled bosom. (“User’s Guide to Steampunk” 30)
Do rhetoricians in the 21st century have "identity issues"? What are the "impossible identities" that young rhetoricians try on as they begin their career? In a soup of theoretical insights drawn from Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk (edited by Barry Brummett). Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, literature on disciplinarity (including the Writing Studies Tree, http://writingstudiestree.org/live/network), and my next project, on national identity and intersectionality in rhetorical scholarship, I will map some of the challenges faced by the rhetorical scholar in the 21st century, and I will exhort all of us to find interesting people (who share our vague discontent with today's status quo) to clutch to our velvet-frilled bosoms.