Wednesday, September 25th
11:00
Workshops
11:00-1:30
Check-in Begins
W1: Progress Interrupted? Exposing the Rhetoric of the Anti-Feminist Backlash
and the Implications for the Movement to End Violence Against Women
 Nicole Baran
W2: Works in Progress
 Barb L’eplattenier
W3: Feminist Historiography: A Collective Workshop
 Nan Johnson
Session A
1:45-3:00
A1: Making Our Agendas Public: Positionality in Archival Research
 Lara Smith-Sitton
 Lynée Lewis Gaillet
 Lisa Mastrangelo
 Wendy Sharer
A2: Organized Womanhood: Connecting Women & Creating Feminist
Consciousness
 Lisa J. Shaver
 Suzanne Bordelon
 Abby Dubisar
 Jane Greer
A3: Gendered and Cross-Cultural Rhetorics of the body
 Alyssa O´Brien
 Emma Engdahl,
 Marie Gelang
A4: Stories, Mothers and Stories of Mothers
 Samantha Blackmon
 Kristen Moore
 Becky Rickly
 Patricia Sullivan
A5: Sex Panics: Queer Interventions
 Beverly Moss
 Ian Barnard
 Ryan Caldwell
 Jessica Shumake
 Aneil Rallin
 Jill Swiencicki
A6: Feminist Writing Program Administrators
 Robin Gallaher: When the Bridge to Praxis Lacks Support: Moments of
Conflict as a Feminist Writing Program Administrator (WPA) and as the
Only Composition Scholar
 Ashley Joyce Holmes: Linking Institutional Pasts with WPA Exigencies
 Elizabeth Carroll: Grassroots Organizing and WPA Leadership:
Feminist Administration Using “Rhetorics from Below”
A7: Cancer and Discourse
 Cristy Beemer: Breast Friends Forever
 Jessica Restaino: Cancer Talk
 Theresa DeFrancis: The Rhetorics of Bilateral Mastectomy
A8: Class, Society, and Home Spaces
 Susan Schuyler: Neither Theatre nor Oratory: Gender, Rhetoric, and
Parlor Recitation
 Liane Malinowski: Inclusive Recovery Work: Linking Women Across
Cultural and Class Identities
 Martha McKay Canter: Aspirational Decor: Women, Home and Identity
 Elizabeth Hill: A Splendid Piece of Work: Arkansas’s Home
Demonstration Clubs
Session B
3:15-4:30
B1: Linking Feminism & Rhetoric” Re/reading the “Floating Flash” in an Age
of Globalization”
 Rachel Riedner
 Rebecca Dingo
 Jennifer Wingard
B2: Redaction, Reinscription and Re/membering Women Veterans
 Mariana Grohowski
 Speaker 2
 Speaker 3
 Speaker 4
 Speaker 5
B3: Restriction and Reproductive Rhetorics
 Emily D. Wicktor
 Natalie Smith Carlson
 Laura Michael Brown: The Pivot of Civilization: Pseudo-Scholarship on
Margaret Sanger in its Contexts
B4: Erisian Epistemologies: Discord and the Feminist Identity
 Michael Alarid
 Erin Easley
B5: Micro-Loans and Outsourcing: Women, Labor, and Capital
 Jennifer Clifton: Feminist Collaboratives and Intercultural Inquiry:
Constructing an Alternative to the (Not-So-) Hidden Logics and
Practices of Micro-Lending
 Beatrice Smith: Gender, Knowledge and “New” Work: Understanding
Labor Feminization in Outsourcing
B6: Storytelling, Narrative, and Writing History
 Mike Peterson: Family-History Writing, Female Ancestricide, and
Patrilineal Privilege
 Astrid Henry: Telling My Story, Telling Our Story
 Shifra Diamond: Scenes of Address: Rethinking the Ethics of
Exemplarity
 Katherine L. McWain: “Our Most Authentic Self”: Retrospective SelfConstruction and Community Preservation in the Chris Almvig
Collection (Kansas City, Missouri -- 1972-74)
B7: Embodied and Alternative Pedagogies
 Amy Winans: Contemplative Feminist Pedagogy
 Marissa M. Juarez: Life and Flesh: Capoeira and/as Critical Pedagogy
 Hui Wu: Feminist Rhetoric for Pedagogical Innovations
B8: Working Behind Bars
 Cassandra Branham: Internet Behind Bars: Technological Access for
Prisoners
 Tobi Jacobi: Barbed Links: The Complexities of Facilitating Feminist
Writing Workshops Behind Bars
Session C:
4:45-6:00
C1: Failing Out Loud: Shame, Vulnerability, and Failure in the Academy
 Sharisse Stenberg
 Allison Carr
 Zachary Beare
 Laura Micciche
C2: Transnational Feminist Pedagogy: Outcomes, Assignments, and Practice
 Kate Navickas
 Rachael Shapiro
 Kate Navickas
 Rachael Shapiro
C3: Surveillance and Control: Medical Rhetorics, the Medicalized Body, and
Women’s Self-Perceptions
 Amy Rupiper Taggart
 Miriam Mara
 Katie Manthey
C4: Agency, Ethics, Orality: Linked Topoi in Feminist Historiography
 Susan Romano
 Valerie Kinsey
 Whitney Myers
C5: Slut Discourse and Feminism
 Laurie McMillan: Representations of Slut-Shaming: Silver Linings
Playbook, Easy A, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
 Jo Reger: Micro Cohorts, Feminist Discourse, and the Emergence of the
Toronto Slutwalk
C6: Adapting Jane Austen for “Chick Lit” and New Media
 Carrie Kilfoil: Revising and Revising Jane: The Politics of Translation
in Bridget Jones’s Diary and Clueless
 Jennifer McLaughlin: Make the Story Come Alive: Identity
Development Through Social Media Use in the Bennet Diaries
C7: Politics, Emotion, and Women as the “Fairer” Sex
 Rachel Chapman: [Need Title]
 Kara Knafelc: [Need Title]
C8: The Regulation of Citizenship Within and Across U.S. Borders
 Ben Weatherbee: AIDS, Immigration, and the Topoi of Post-Crisis
American Nationalism
 Veronica Oliver: No Papers No Fear: A New Rhetoric of Citizenship
Embodiment
 Jolivette Mecenas: Reading and Composing Citizenship Genres as
Spaces of Feminist Encounter/Alliance
Session D:
6:15-8:00
Opening Remarks:
Sister Rhetors:
Andrea Lunsford & Cheryl Glen
Thursday, September 26th
Session E:
8:45-10:00
E1, Featured Panel: Phenomenal Women, EmPOWERing Literacies, and
Literacy Communities in African American Women's Spaces
• Beverly Moss
E2: Enduring and Emerging Questions in Feminist Pedagogy
 Dahliani Reynolds
 Pamela VanHaitsma

Steph Caeraso
E3: The Power of Connection: Filling Silences and Stilling Voices
 Katie Stahlnecker
 Sana Amoura-Patterson
 Liz Kay
 Jen Lambert
E4: Precarious Participation: Women's Work in Open Knowledge Communities
 Lindsay Rose Russell
 Chelsea Redeker Milbourne
 Melanie Kill
E5: Sex, Blood, and Mason Jars: Gendering Discourses in Pinterest, True
Blood, and Cosmopolitan
 Margaret Mauk
 Christina Mahan
 Gillian D’Eramo
E6: Portrayals of Motherhood
 Sharon Yam: “Double Negative” Pregnant Women from China: The
Commercialization of Citizenship and Childbirth
 Kimberly Drake: The Strategic Idealization of Motherhood in the
Rhetorics of Imperial Feminism and Contemporary Literature.
E7: Mary Wollstonecraft: Rhetoric and Change
 Kimberly Thomas-Pollei: Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication: Shaping
Women as Agents of Civic Change
 Mary-Antoinette Smith: Three Rhetorics of Feminist Solidarity:
Bathsua Makin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and John Stuart Mill (1673-1869)
 Molly Kelleher: Wollstonecraft: Unnatural Woman: Between the Nature
of the Feminine and a Gendered Nature
E8: Classroom activism
 Jackie Hoermann: The Pedagogical is Political: Learning to Teach in a
Culture of Fear
 Heather Lindenman: Conversational Rhetoric and Social Change
E9: Feminists Embracing the Anime Body: Rhetorical explorations of animated
embodiment across multiple anime genre
 Christina Marie Bethal
 Kimberly Thompson
 Will Banks
Session F:
F1: Linking Women, Genre and Rhetorical History
10:15-11:30
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Jane L. Donawerth
Dawn Armfield
Laura Gurak
F2: Trans/Feminist Social Movements: Linking Nations, Universities, and
Communities
 Tammie Kennedy
 Margarette Christensen
 Marvel Maring
 Tracey Menten
F3: Ethical Binds: Feminist Approaches to Rhetorics of Advocacy in Political
and Educational Reform
 Jill Swiencicki
 Heidi Estrem
 Rebecca Jones
 Katie Ryan
F4: Contexts for Listening: Subversive Classroom Practices in Three Fields of
Communication
 Breanna Kreimeyer
 Sarah Zoe Pike
 Sara Parks
F5: Linking Feminist Rhetorical Analysis to Non-Academic Sites: Museums,
TV, and the Internet
 Cheryl Glenn
 Lauren Obermark
 Sarah Adams
 Cory Geraths
F6: Latinas Effecting Change Through Writing Across Communities
 Christine Garcia
 Genevieve Garcia de Muller,
 Heather Garica
F7: Repositioning Bodies: Using Feminist Methodologies to Pluralize Spaces
 Holly Ryan
 Stacy Day
 Katie Gindlesparger
F8: Abortion Rhetoric: Policy, Activism, and Debate
 Sheryl L. Cunningham: Image Events in Pro-Life Activism: Fetal
Testimony and Performing Personhood
 Brandi Rogers: [Need Title]
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Kaimala Price: Abortion, Black Genocide and the Politics of Outrage:
The Rhetoric of the Anti-Abortion Campaign targeting the African
American Community
Jennie L. Vaughn: Exceeding “Life” versus “Choice”: Building Links
for Reproductive Justice
F9: Gender and Rhetoric in the Gun Debate
 Jamie Calhoun: Gender and the Gun Debate in Western Pennsylvania
 Heidi Huse: Feminist Rhetoric in America’s “Gun Culture”: Linking
Feminist Advocacy with Chronic Deadly Violence
11:30-12:30
Session G:
12:45-2:00
Lunch and Performances
G1, Featured Panel: Feminist Rhetorical Practices and the Building of Global
Communities
• Gesa Kirsch and Jackie Royster
G2: Feminism and Social Advocacy: Where can a Body go wrong?
 Julia Marie Smith
 Katherine Bridgman
 Kaitlin Marks-Dubbs
G3: Food Matters: From Farms to Tables to Classrooms
 Cydney Alexis
 Eric Leake
 Megan J. Kelly
 Melissa Tedrowe
G4: Examining Challenges to and Reifications of Gender Norms through
Global Online Media
 Meghan Sweeney
 Erin Goldin
 Katie Miller
G5: The (Re)Generative Value of Writing Center Tutors' Work: A Closer Look
at Resilience, Agency, and Change
 Dawn Fels
 Liz Maclean
 Rachel Johnson
 Amber Cook
G6: Narratives of/and Motherhood
 Monika Alston-Miller: Milkmaking Societies: Black Women’s
Private/Public Narratives of Breastfeeding
 Pamela Saunders: Letters to Kanner: Mothers as co-creators of medical
knowledge in early clinical descriptions of Autism
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Jenna Vinson: (Teen) Mama Knows Best? : The Roles of Experts, Editors,
and Experiential Knowledge in Testimonies about Teenage Pregnancy
G7: (Re)imagining Influential Women Across Time
 Elizabeth Mackay: “She Was a Phoenix Queen, so Shall She Be”:
Women Writers’ Cross-Cultural and Cross-Historical Rhetorical
(Re)imaginings of Elizabeth I
 Sarah Peterson Pittock: Modern Aspasias: Negotiating Learning and
Femininity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
 Tara Betts: We Are the Ones: Lessons in June Jordan and Toni Cade
Bambara’s Essays
 Stacy Kastner and Sue Carter-Wood: The Rhetorical Practices of Mary
Leslie Newton
G8: Popular Culture, Feminist Performance, and Queer Interactive Spaces
 Tiffany Shontay Kyser: Folked, Funked, Punked: How Feminist
Performance Poetry Creates Havens for Activism and Change
 Eloisa E. Moreno: On Our Terms: A Holistic Hip-Hop Pedagogy
Linking Women, Multimodal Composition Technologies, and Online
Participatory Spaces
 Londie T. Martin: Queering Spaces of Multimodal Play: Queer Youth
Linking Communities Through Coalitional Performances
 Lehua Ledbetter: Embodied Identities, Lived Experiences: A Study of
YouTube’s Beauty Community
G9: Social Protest Rhetorics
 Maureen Goggin: Yarn Bombing as Craftivist (Craft + Activist) Protest
 Laura Michel Brown: Silent Protest: Bennett College Women and the
1960 Greensboro Student Sit-ins
 Grace Wetzel: What Bright Eyes Says: Social Protest and the CrossCultural Journalism of Susette La Flesche
 Brad E. Lucas: The Original Mama Grizzly: Bernardine Dohrn and the
Rhetoric of White Terror
Session H:
2:15-3:30
H1: Educating & Professionalizing Women through Transnational Writing:
19th, 20th, & 21st century
 Sarah Robbins
 Jill Lamberton
 Sabine Smith
 Margaret Robbins
H2: “Honey, There’s a Feminist at the Door”: Exploring the Intersections of
Feminist Rhetorics & Methods in Three Research Projects
 Emma Howes
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Lauren Rosenberg
Lauren Connolly
H3: Feminist Milestones, Historiography, and Consequences for Writing
 Jenn Fishman
 Krista Ratcliffe
 Christine Farris
H4: Prozac, Petticoats, and Cyberspace Personas: Pop Culture and the
(Re)Disciplining Power of Rhetoric for Women
 Hali F. Sofala
 Nicole Greene
 Sarah Fawn Montgomery
 Charity Regenitter
H5: Queerly Disrupting Power In Communities And the Academy
 Rebecca Hayes
 Katie Livingston
 Casey Miles
 Madhu Narayan
 Trixie G. Smith
H6: Immigration/Migration/Citizenship
 Dawn DiPrince: Anchor Babies and Dreamers: Unfitness,
Americanization, and the Fertility Rhetoric Surrounding Migrant
Motherhood
 Rebecca Powell: Writing Homes: Economic Migrants and the Rhetoric
of Homemaking
 Jeannette Soon-Luds: Boundaries of Belonging: The Limits of
“Progressive” Public Discourse and Municipal Policies in Takoma Park,
Maryland
H7: Smell, Sight, and Other Sensory Rhetorics
 Brenda Brueggamann: Read My Lips: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis
of Mabel Bell’s 1895 “Subtle Art of Speechwriting”
 Elizabeth Tasker Davis: Satire, Advice, and Vision: Rhetorical
Versatility in Maria Edgeworth’s Writings on Education
 Lisa L. Phillips: Sensory Wayfinding: Mapping Olfactory Rhetorics via
Multiple Feminisms
 William FitzGerald: Simone Weil and the Rhetoric of Attention
H8: The Critical Place of the Networked Archive: A Case Study of Suffrage
Cartoons by John Tinney McCutcheon
 Tarez Samra Graban & Shirley Rose
Session I:
3:45-5:00
I1, Featured Panel: The Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference: Looking
Backward, Looking Forward?
• Lisa Ede
Location: Green Library, Special Collections
I2: Embodied and Alternative Pedagogies
 Christy A. Ayars: Feminist Grammar
 Michael Alarid and Erin Easley: Building Steam Engines with the
Women of Radcliffe and George Pierce Baker
 Samantha Looker: Rhetorical Listening and Linguistic Diversity in a
Feminist Classroom
I3: Collage as a Link between “Women’s Art” and Feminist Rhetorics
 Mor Sheinbein
 Jessica Thomsen
 Mary Trecek
I4: Shame, Desire, and Remediation: Exploring Social Circulation and Critical
Imagination in Digital Environments
 Heather Brook Adams
 Michael J. Faris
 Jean Bessette
I5: Science and the Body
 Liz Barr: Expressive Bodies: Embodied Vernacularity and Scientific
Authority
 Julie Prebel: Untidy Intersections: Feminism, Composition, and the
Scientific Rhetoric of the Female Body
 Catherine Gouge: Noncompliance and the Standardized Body
I6: Queering the Classroom
 Kim Freeman: Drag in the Disciplines: Discipline as Discursive Identity
of How We Might queer WID?
 Petra Dierkes-Thrun: How to be Controversial in Public: Teaching
Queer Literature and Feminist Studies Online
 Jonathan Rylander: Disrupting First-Year Composition, Disrupting
Institutionalized Disversity: the Feminist and Queer Potential of
Dislocated Pedagogies
I7: Feminist Ethnographic Research
 Becky Kling: Ethnography and Feminist Rhetoric in the Composition
Classroom
 Elisabeth Miller: Ethical Feminist Research Practices and the Limits of
Language: Interrogating Ethnographic Research with Persons with
Aphasia
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Andrew Ogilvie: “‘Emprendadora’: An Ethnographic Case Study of
Feminist Rhetorical Agency in the Life of a Nicaraguan Educator”
I8: Feminist Ethos and Rhetorical Construction
 Stacey Pigg & Kendall Leon: Conocimiento as a Path to Ethos: Gloria
Anzaldua as Rhetorical Theorist
 Letizia Guglielmo & Beth Daniel: Changing Audience, Changing Ethos
Session J
5:30-8:00
Dinner
Lynda Barry
Friday, September 27th
Session K:
9:00-10:15
K1, Featured Panel: Women and the Arab Spring
• Susan Jarrett
K2: Practicing Feminist Rhetoric: Three Experimental Writing Projects on
Gender, Identity, and Representation
 Carole Firstman
 Speaker 2
 Speaker 3
K3: Pedagogy, Power, and Praxis: Feminist Approaches to Composition
Programming and Classroom Practices
 Donna Souder
 Sara Crowe
 Lauren Specht
 Ashley Osterhout
K4: Interrogating the Rhetorics of the Monogamous Couple
 Nora Hansel
 Cam Awkward-Rich
 Joy Brooke Fairfield
K5: Embodied Rhetorics of Craft
 Kristin Prins
 Marilee Brooks-Gillies
 Kristin Ravel
 Amber Buck
K6: TechnoFeminist Practices: Bridging the Gap Between Rhetorics and
Realities
 Stacy Kastner
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Katherine Fredlund
Kerri Hauman
Kristine Blair
K7: Examining Graphic Novels and Comics
 Robin Jeremy Land: Reconciling the Heroine’s Embodied Rhetorics in
the Modern Graphic Novel
 Oriana Gatta: (Un)McClouded Visions: A Feminist Approach to
Understanding Comics in the Comp Classroom
 Anna Marshall: Drawing on a Female Erotic: Reflections on the
Construction of Erotic Space in Jaime Hernandez’s Locas
 Leow Hui Min Annabeth: The Harley and the Ivy: Mad Women,
Queerness, and Villainy in Batman: The Animated Series
K8: War Rhetorics
 Patty Wilde: The Personal is Political: Women’s Memoirs of the
American Civil War
 Marsha Lee Baker: War Eulogies as Nonviolent Praxis: A Call for
Transformation
 Jennifer A. Keohane: The Global Suburb: Contesting the Spatial
Organization of Cold War Life in Feminist Rhetoric
K9: (In)Visible Links: Lessons from Girls on a High School-to-University
Online Writing Lab
 Kimberly Robinson Neary
 Dawn M. Forno
Session L:
10:30-11:45
L1: Before Globalization: Cosmopolitan as a Feminist Rhetorical Word
 Kate Ronald
 Hephzibah Roskelly
L2: Cultural Expectations, the Institution, and Motherhood Rhetorics:
Examining Links Between Professional and Maternal Identity Construction
 Sarah Spangler
 April Cobos
 Jamie Henthorn
 Lindal Buchanan
L3: Rappelling Rapunzel’s Hair: Linking the Tower to the Street
 Amy S. Gerald
 Pam Whitfield
 Mary Morse
L4: Inventing Domestic and Professional Space: Women’s Work from 1840 to
1940
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Michelle Smith
Sarah Hallenbeck
Risa Applegarth
L5: Visual Rhetorics: Film, Photography, and Advertising
 Joyce L. Middleton: Feminist Rhetoric as a Global, Listening, and
Visual Rhetoric in Film
 Dayna Arcurio: Through a Visual Semiotic Lens: Body Language in
Transgender Magazine Photographic Imagery
 Lisa M. Dresner: The Rhetoric of Pottery Barn—Cataloguing
Heternormative Familial and Gender Roles
L6: Rhetorics of Age and Aging
 Suzette Ann Henke: What’s Age Got to Do With It?: The Graying of the
(Feminist) Academy, or Coping with the Vicissitudes of Senior
Citizenship in the Classroom
 Yvonne Stephens: Rhetorics of the Body and Embodied Rhetorics in
Seniors’ Talk
 Genevieve Leung: Hoisan Female Elders Speak: Insights into CrossCultural Rhetorics and Intercultural/ Intergenerational Communication
L7: Feminist Research Methodologies
 Emily R. Johnston: Methodology = Accountability: Tracking Our
Movements as Feminist Researchers
 Terese Guinsatao Monberg: Movement Metaphors, Feminist
Methodologies, and Civic Engagement: The Rhetorical and Pedagogical
Work of (Re)Membering Communities
 Melanie Burdick: Interrogating Gender in the Secondary English
Teacher Role: A Case Study of One Prospective Writing Teacher
L8: Emotion in the Classroom
 David Elder: White Male Feminist Talks about Love
 Heather Martin & Juli Parrish: Complications of Personal Care in the
Writing Classroom: To Hug or Not to Hug?
 Maryam El-Shall: Student Disclosure and the Performance of Gender in
the College Writing Classroom
 Nicholas Learned: Humor, Feminism, and the Writing Classroom
L9: Science and the Making of Women Experts
 Lillian Campbell: MacGyvering and Dr. Ruthing: Science Journalism
and the Material Positioning of Dr. Carla Pugh
 Susan Wells: Daughters of the Enlightenment: Feminism and Science in
Our Bodies, Ourselves
 Andrea Morrow: A Reflection on Vandana Shivas Staying Alive:
Ecofeminism Among Poor Women in India as A Challenge to Western
Science, Rhetoric, and Feminism
12:00-1:00
Session M:
1:15-2:30
Lunch and Performances
M1: In Search of a Pragmatist-Feminist Rhetorical Ethic
 John Pell
 William Duffy
 Elizabeth Vogel
M2: Intersectional Rhetorics / Negotiating Womenʼs Lives
 Kathryn Flannery
 Brenda Glascott
 Rona Kaufman
M3: Food, Farming, and Feminisms: Analyzing Gender, Race, and Women’s
Labor Across the Centuries
 Eileen E. Schell
 Dianna Winslow
 Anna Hensley
 Carolyn Ostrander
M4: The UnFeminist Feminism: Feminist Rhetoric and the HBCU Writing
Classroom: The Last Frontier?; or The Adventures of Feminist Rhetoric and
Practice at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
 Anwar Alston
 Robert Randolph
 Faye Spencer Maor
M5: Pedagogy and the Veil: Linking Transnational, Interdisciplinary Feminist
Perspectives on Covered Women Within the (and without a) Classroom
 Festina Balidemaj
 Şerife Geniş
 Lisa Lenker
M6: Birthing Rhetoric and Mommy Blogs
 Jaqueline Rogers & Fiona Green: Mommy Blogging and Emergent
Ethics: Ta(l)king of the Family and Wider Communities
 Shonell Bacon: Where We Stand on Being Mom Bloggers of Color
 Lori Beth De Hertogh: Forging Digital Links Through Feminist
Rhetorical Witnessing and Activism: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Blog
“Birth Without Fear”
M7: Critical Creativity and Rhetorics of the Body
 Mary Ann Cain
 Lacy Manship
 Lil Brannon
M8: Women as Readers and Writers
 Julie Dalley: It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s Literary World: Linking the
Rhetoric of Experience of Women Writers
 Dawn Opel: What Mommies Want: Discerning Contemporary Western
Feminisms through Reception of El James’ Fifty Shades Trilogy
M9: Bodily Presence and Virtual World
 Gabrielle Randle
 A-Lan Holt
Session N:
2:45-4:00
N1: Rhetorical Tactics for Feminist Disruption in Science and Disability
Studies
 Julie Jung
 Kathleen Daly
 Marie Moeller
N2: Teaching in Place: Kairotic Pedagogy in Undergraduate Women's
Rhetorics Courses
 Sharon J. Kirsch
 Wendy Hayden
 Carrie Leverenz
N3: Girl Scouts, Inmates, and Preachers: Empowerment through the Rhetoric
of Community in Modern America
 Joseph Gastaldo
 Alexandra Stott
 Ashley Rhett
N4: Linking Rhetorics, Feminisms, and Global Communities: Interrogating
Sites of Action
 Vanessa Cozza
 Andrea Aebersold
 Andréa Davis
N5: Activism Beyond the Pulpit: Feminism and Rhetorical Space
 Michael Noricks: A Spirit-Controlled Space: Beverly Lahaye,
Concerned Women for America and the Rhetoric of the Home
 Amy Ferdinandt Stolley: Plain, Simple, Durable: The Feminist
Rhetorical Strategies of Mother Catherine McCauley
 Jennifer Wolfe Lewis: Anne Bronte’s Rhetorical Space: How The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall became Anne’s Stage on Women’s Rights
N6: Ethos and Rhetorical Construction
 Iklim Goksel: Practices of Re-veiling: Construction and Embodiment of
Women’s Rhetorical Ethos
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Heather Palmer: Toward an Ethics of Non-knowledge: Feminine Ethos
and The Practice of Parrhesia
Rachel C. Jackson: Ethos as the Fertile In-Between Space: The
Diotimatic Relationship between Speaker and Audience and Mutual
Characterization in Aristotle’s On Rhetoric
Ira James Allen: Ethically Disclosing Worlds: Simone de Beauvoir and
the Rhetorical Construction of Value
N7: The Rhetoric of the Female Body
 Maggie Werner: “You’re Bound to Find Out She Don’t Love you”:
Seduction, Persuasion, and the Rhetorical Act of Exotic Dance
 Lavinia Hirsu: The Spectacle of the Female Body: From Critique to
Method
 Patricia Fancher: Who Are We Talking About When We Talk About
Bodies?: Defining Three Bodies in Rhetorical Theory
 Kelly Bradbury: Gender and the Discourse of Intellectualism: The
Body/Mind Dualism Lives On
N8: Higher Education: Pedagogy and Community
 Kathleen E. Welch: Feminist Pedagogy and Advanced Composition:
Regendered Classical Composition-Rhetoric
 Elenore Long: Visualizing Data and Networking Rhetorics of
Community-University Partnerships
 Jeannette M. Lindholm: Grassroots Organizing and WPA Leadership:
Feminist Administration Using “Rhetorics from Below”
N9: Food, Foodies, and Food Movements
 Melissa A. Goldthwaite: My Foodie Pal: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis
of Foodie
 Kari Szakal: White Discursive Spaces and Alternative Food Movements
Session O:
4:15-5:30
O1, Featured Panel: Generations of Title IX
 Tara VanDerveer
 Deborah Hawhee
 Kelly Belanger
 Toni Kokenis
O2: Social Justice Across Time and Space: Kairos, Ethics, and The Opportune
Moment in Feminist Discourse
 Belinda Walzer
 Tonya Ritola
 Heather Branstetter
O3: Telling, Connecting, Relinking: An Exploration of Consciousness-Raising
During Three+ Waves of Feminist Activism
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Alice Gilla
Paige Conley
Jennifer Kontny
O4: Medical Rhetorics in the Regulation of Women’s Bodies and Mental
Health
 Elizabeth Britt: Witnessing in Rhetorical Education for Domestic Abuse
Advocacy
 Jamie Peterson: Texas Legislature: Scaring the Women
 Cathryn Molloy: Unlikely Linkages: Navigating Dissociative Identity
Disorder in the Context of False Memory Syndrome, Narrative
Imperatives, and the Moral Affordances of Traumatic Victimhood
O5: International Women’s Movements
 Jennifer Hudson: The Russian “New Woman”: Menace or Heroine
 Kristy Maddux: Women’s Industry: Discourses of Financial
Independence at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
 Abby Root: The Rhetorical Significance of the Women’s Movement in
Post Occupation Japan
 Ellen Quandahl: Rhetoric and the Byzantine Woman as Stranger
O6: War Rhetorics
 Sara R. Dennison: Exonerating Censorship and Political Mythology in
the Wake of Cultural Trauma: Argentina’s Buried War and the Enduring
Rhetoric of the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
 Mimi Reddigliffe: The Rhetorics of Women Writing About World War I
in Boston’s North End 1916-1917
O7: Marginalized Groups: Writing/Communication/Response
 Sarah B. Franco: Understanding Interconnected Liberation: A Look at
How Interdisciplinary Theory Supports Research with Marginalized
Groups
 Wendy Dasler Johnson: Peace Talk: Deliberative Dialogue as One Way
 Elizabeth Keller: Feminist Assemblages: Writing, Mentoring and
Professionalism
 Rachel Howe: A Moms Group by Any Other Name Is a Dads Night Out
How Gender Specific Rhetoric Affects Outcomes in a Peer Mentoring
Situation
O8: Girls as Gamers and Technogeeks
 Megan Boeshart: Women Narrating Their Experience in the Online
Gaming Community
 Christine Alfano: Geek Girls and Gamer Chicks
 Jennifer Almjeld: Remixing Girl Community: Technology Camp
Complicates Notion of “Girl”
O9: The Rhetorics of Appalachia
 Krista L. Bryson: The Urban Appalachian Council: Feminist Advocacy
for an “Invisible Minority”
 Mary Beth Pennington: Grassroots Appalachian Activism and MultiModal Feminist Rhetoric
 Jessie Blackburn: (E)ppalachia: Marxists Feminism, Cyberfrontiers, and
Rural Ethos
Session P
6:00-8:00
Dinner and Dorothy Allison
Saturday, September 28th
Session Q:
9:00-10:15
Q1: Suffrage and Women’s Uprising
 Katja Thieme: Transnational Links Between Genres of Political
Activism: The Case of the Canadian Women’s Suffrage Movement
 Erin Costello Wecker: Hell-raisers in Petticoats: Disconnecting
Progressive-era Kansas Equal Suffrage and Populism
 Jennifer Nish: Multilingual, Mulitmodal, Grassroots Organizing
Q2: On the Edges: Women Speaking from the Margins
 Marta Hess
 Lori Howard
 Liz Stoehr
Q3: Tokens, Race/Gender Traitors, and the Academy: Linking the Challenges
and Triumphs of Mentorship and Teaching from a Space of Marginalization
 Aja Y. Martinez
 Casie Moreland
 Justin G. Whitney
Q4: Women, Reproduction, and the Problematics of “Choice”
 Melissa Miles McCarter
 Jackie Cason
 Marjorie Jolles
 Katherine Mack
Q5: Rhetorics of Mental Health
 Lisa M. Hermsen: Mad Women in Virtual Worlds
 Ann Atura: Consuming Time: Eating Disorders, Narrative, and Wasted
 Maria Faini: Gender, Wellness, and Battling Bare
Q6: Connections and Collaborations across Generations: Perspectives on aging
and feminism
 Suzanne Kesler Rumsey
 Jamie White-Farnham
 Kate White
Q7: Feminist Materialities
 Jennifer Bay: Gender in Professional and Technical Communication:
Connecting Academic Research with Human Materiality
 Jen Talbot: Tipping the Scale of Materiality: or Can We be Posthuman
Without Being Postfeminist
 Cynthia Baterman: Forging Feminist Friendships: A Virtual
Cartography for Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Q8: Transgender Rhetorics and Materialities
 Jo Latham: FTM Materiality, Feminist Theory
 Robert Pook: Lana Wachowski’s Human Rights Campaign Visibility
Award Acceptance Speech
 Kimberly Drake: The Rhetoric of the Pronoun: Genderqueer Identity at
a Women’s College
Q9: Writing Center Pedagogy and Practice
 Andrea Efthymiou: Women in the Writing Center: Peer Tutors Linking
the Institution to Their Civic Lives
 Erica Cirillo-McCarthy: Tutoring from the Intersection of Privilege and
Illegitimacy: Working with International Graduate Students in the
Writing Center
 Aurora Matzke: Blending Pedagogies: Piloting a Studio Approach to
Stretched, “Basic” Writing
Session R:
10:30-11:45
R1: Gender, Technology, and Power
 Alex Layne
 Jill Morris
 Emi Bunner
R2: Know Thyself: Using Writing Instruction to Foster Personal Identity and
Relational Awareness
 Laural Adams
 Martha Schaffer
 Nicholaus Baca
R3: Pinterest Activism and Rhetoric
 Denise Landrum-Geyer: Feminist? Feminized?: Performing Invention as
Activism on Pinterest
 Katie DeLuca: Can We Block these Political Thingys? I Just Want to
Get F***ing Recipes: Women’s Ethos and Politics on Pinterest
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Sarah S. Walden: Reading Pinterest in the Nineteenth Century: The
Rhetoric of Virtual Domestic Exchange
R4: Agency and the Classroom
 Whitney Douglas: Boise State: Service Learning and Women’s Rhetoric
 Kerrie Carsey: “I Belong Here”: College Writing and Agency for
Underserved Students
 Florenc Bacabac: The Intersections of Service Learning, Private
Writing, and the Feminist Rhetorical Agency
 Lindsey Banister: Contradiction as Strategic Choice: Opportunities for
Cultivating Agency
R5: Queer Rhetorics and Challenges to Discourse
 Bruno Perreau: The Twisted: A Queer and Feminist Parade Against the
Rhetoric of Property
 Patrick Thomas: Queer Futures, Emancipatory Potential, and Networked
Communities: Analyzing Mulitmodal Representations of the Future in
the It Gets Better Project
 Alexandrea Cavallaro: Teach Yourself Biblical Self Defense:
Alternative Sites of Rhetorical Education in the LGBTQ Community
R6: Rhetorics of the Racialized Body
 Kristan Poirot & Shevaun Watson: Gender, Race, Tourism and Public
Memory: The Case of Charleston, SC
 Kimberly Dority: Unraveling the Dancing Body: Exploring Rhetorics of
Race In Tango
 Lami Fofana: Delinking Monolithic Blackness: A Rhetorical
Embodiments of Black is/not Beauty
R7: Feminism and the Future of Library Discovery
 Chris Bourg
 Bess Sadler
R8: Scripted Parties, the Rhetoric of Sexism, and Greek Life: Links between
College Campus Rhetoric and Female Identity
 Magela Arias
 Michelle Dallalah
 Rohisha Adke
R9: The Rhetorics of Clothing, Dress, and Fashion
 Elif Guler: Rhetorics of the Headscarf: Redefining Islamic Piety
 Eric Brock: Pantsuits and Politics: Female Dress as Rhetorical
Representation
12:00-1:00
Lunch: Coalition Announcements
Session S:
1:15-2:30
S1: Writing a Sense of Herself: Working Class Women’s Graphic Memoirs,
Amish Newspaper Writers, and Body Modification
 Donna Dunbar-Odom
 Tabetha Adkins
 Khimen Cooper
S2: “Rhetorics of Witnessing Illness and Disability”
 Diane Price Herndl
 Kristen Gay
 Ella Bieze
S3: Acts of Feminist Composing
 Barbara George
 Jessica Corey
 Pamela Takayoshi
S4: Memes and Blogs: Feminism Online
 Janine Morris & Carla Sarr: Linking Feminisms: Exploring Blogger
Communities Inside and Outside Academia
 Jessica Ouellette: Blogging Borders: Transnational Feminist Rhetorics
and Global Voices
 Angela Sowa: Join Me On My Journey: Community and Epideixis in
Conservative Women’s Online Rhetoric
 Brenda Helmbrecht: Bound, but Determined: Memes as Sites of
Feminist Activism
S5: Transnational Rhetoric
 Christopher Earle: Transnational as a Lens for Feminist Transnational
Rhetoric
 Sara L. McKinnon: Transnational Intercultural Rhetoric: Theorizing a
Program of Study through the Figure of the Refugee
 Keith Lloyd: Cross-Cultural Matrices: Fruitful Connections Between
India(n) and Feminist Rhetorics
 Miranda Mammen: Cross-Cultural Rhetorics of L’Affaire Dominique
Strauss-Kahn
S6: Decolonizing Rhetorics
 Lana Oweidat: Decolonizing Representations of Muslim Women: An
Appeal for a Hospitable Rhetoric and Pedagogy
 Anita August: Decolonizing the Eye: The Politics of Visuality in
Networked Knowledge Communities
 Franny Howes: From Inclusion to Tranformation: Deconlonizing
Feminist Rhetorical Research
 Lauralea Edwards: Three Senses of Submission: Islam, Academic
Conference Proposals, and Women’s Development Rhetorics in the
Middle East
S7: Travel Rhetorics
 Kelly Cameron: The Rhetorics of a Stranger-Guest: Francis Power
Cobbe’s Travel Writing to Ireland
 Kristin Mock: Women’s Bodies in Motion: Constructing a Nomadic
Ethos in Feminist Travel Blogs
S8: African American Intersections of Race and Discourse
 Tanya Robertson: For Colored Girls and The Discourses of Womanhood
 Ashley Gellert: Rekindling Race Women: Reappropriations of Racial
Uplift Discourse in bell hooks’s Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and
Feminism
 Tara Propper: Feminist Canons: Exploring the Intersection Between
Race, Taste, and Gender in African American Slave Narratives
Session T:
2:45-4:00
T1: Work It: Online Pedagogies, Practices and Problems in Feminist Workplace
Rhetoric
 Frances Peacock
 Margaret Thomas Evans
 Tanya Perkins
T2: Hacking Identity: Feminist Resistance in Online Spaces
 Leigh Gruwell
 Morgan Leckie
 Jason Palmeri
T3: HTTP 404—Broken Links: The Marginalization of Administration
 Maureen McBride
 Kara Moloney
T4: “Girls” and Feminism
 Faith M. Kurtyka: We’re Just a Group of Fun Girls: Ethos and Group
Identity Formation in a Social Sorority
 Elizabeth Leahy: I Want to Congratulate the Girls on Their Exquisite
Little Paper: Gender, Humor, and Rhetorical Spaces in Turn of the
Century Student Newspapers
 Michele Polak: The Perfect Storm: How the Rhetorics of Girls Studies
and the Global Communities of Girl Culture Work Toward Defining
Girl Space
 Charlotte Hogg: Sorority Feminists: Incongruent Identities of Sisterhood
T5: Power and Rhetoric
 Eric Zimmerman: Anonymous was a Grad Student: A Tale of Identity,
Power, and Collaboration in Scholarly Pursuits
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Celeste Berrington: Rethinking the Power of Linking: Crowdsourcing
and a Case for Wikipedia
Michelle Rushefsky: Women and Power: The Female Power Dynamics
and Identity
T6: Protest Rhetorics and Activist Strategies
 Ginna Husting: Contempt, Incivility, and Feminist World-Making
 Brigitte Mral: Realizing the Vision of a Peace-building Universal
Rhetoric
 Alexandria Murray-Risso: Protests and Occupy[Need Title]
 Ginny Crisco: Recognizing the Rhetorics of Feminist Action: Making a
Case for the Possibilities
T7: Journalism in Culture and Community
 Janet Eldred: Footloose in China: Ethos and Embodiment in 20thcentury Literary Journalism
 Amy Mecklenburg-Faenger: Creating a Critical Community: Student
Literary Magazine Exchanges in the Progressive Era
 Michael Rozendal: Reimagining the Mass Market Magazine: Direction
(1937-1945) and Mid-Century Print Culture
T8: Talking Back: Re-theorizing Disability Identity and Sexuality
 Amanda Booher
 Elizabeth Brewer
 Julia Miele Rodas
 Melanie Yergeau
T9: Al Nisa: Muslim Women in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca
 Tia Williams
 Red Summer
Session U:
4:15-5:30
U1: History/story-telling
 Stephanie Weaver: Personal Narrative and Public Rhetorics: Sandy
Hook Shooting
 Bo Wang: Rethinking Feminist Rhetoric and Historiography in a Global
Context
 Judy Isaksen: Womanist Oral Traditions in Digital Rhetorical Spaces
 Heidi L. Bostic: Proceed with Caution: Irigaray and the Narrative
U2: Prostitution Laws and Sex workers
 Simona Fogtova: Bliss Without Risk: Competing Feminist Rhetorics of
Sex Work in a Transnational Context
 Mary Little: The Rhetoric of Oppression: The Language of US
Prostitution Laws
U3: Digital Legacies: Feminist Methodologies in the Online Archive
 Christine Masters Jach
 Stacy Nall
 Fredrik deBoer
U4: Music and Song in Politics
 Shana Goldin-Perschbacher: Icelandic Nationalism, Essentialist
Feminism and Bjork’s Songs about Motherhood
 Brad Herzog: Available Means: How Liberian Women Used Rhetoric,
Dance, Prayer, and Song to Overcome a Dictator and Prepare for
Democracy
 Karrieann Soto: Rock-n-out: Transnational Feminist Rhetorical Analysis
of Music and Literacy
U5: Rape Rhetorics
 Sarah Lakshmi: Popular Mobilization and Media Framing of Delhi’s
Gang Rape
 Moushaumi Riswas: Social Media: Enrage India Protest
 Uma Krishnan: Do Women Really “Provoke” Men?
U5: Social Justice Rhetorics
 Nicole Chantelle Howell: Looking Outside the Academy: The
Rhetorical Strategies of Delores Huerta
 Megan Little: Authority and Ambivalence in Early Collaborative
Invention: A Case Study of A Grassroots Activist Group
 Henrietta Wood: Lucile Bluford: the Rhetorical Genesis of a Civil
Rights Activist, 1926-1941
 Dustin Edwards: Reappropriating, Pirating, and Retelling: The
Rhetorcal Strategies of Critiquing Dominant Discourses
U6: Weight and Body Rhetorics
 Ellen Cox: Becoming Fat: Imagining a Foucauldian Alternative to
Identity Politics
 Mary McCall: Weight Stigma and Cultural Images of Control: Dove’s
Campaign for Real Beauty and a “Whiter” Definition of Beauty
 Heather Lang: Reclaiming the “Headless Fatty”: Mulitplemodality and
Embodied Activism in Online Spaces
 Deborah Thompson: Flabby Writing
U7:
U8: