Prolific: A Podcast Journey Through Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication

Hello, Prolific listenters! This episode is a rebroadcast as I move the RSS feed over to a better, easier-to-manage podcast hosting platform. Feel free to disregard or give it a listen. This episode marked the move to a longer, more conversational model, and it covers some of the major ideas and works from Carolyn Miller, a scholar truly worthy of the adjective "prolific."

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of Prolific: A Podcast Journey Through Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication. For this episode, we’re focusing on multimodal composition and multimodality. Now, unlike prior episodes, the bulk of the resources and concepts are discussed in the actual discussion part of the episode (if you’re new, the latter part of the episodes are sit-down, informal talks with other grad students). That said, the first part of this episodes is relatively shorter than before, though it’s still good (I promise!). As always, please feel free to reach out to me across any social media with suggestions, comments, or just to say, “Hi!”

People to check out:

- Jody Shipka

- Kathleen Yancey

- Jonathan Alexander

- Jackie Rhodes

- Angela Haas

- Malea Powell

- Cynthia Selfe

- Andrea Lunsford

- Cheryl Ball

- Stacey Waite

Resources:

- Digital Rhetoric Collaborative: http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org

- Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab: https://crtheoryla

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of Prolific: A Podcast Journey Through Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication. For this episode, we’re focusing on multimodal composition and multimodality. Now, unlike prior episodes, the bulk of the resources and concepts are discussed in the actual discussion part of the episode (if you’re new, the latter part of the episodes are sit-down, informal talks with other grad students). That said, the first part of this episodes is relatively shorter than before, though it’s still good (I promise!). As always, please feel free to reach out to me across any social media with suggestions, comments, or just to say, “Hi!”

People to check out:

- Jody Shipka

- Kathleen Yancey

- Jonathan Alexander

- Jackie Rhodes

- Angela Haas

- Malea Powell

- Cynthia Selfe

- Andrea Lunsford

- Cheryl Ball

- Stacey Waite

Resources:

- Digital Rhetoric Collaborative: http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org

- Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab: https://crtheorylab.wordpress.com

Welcome to another episode of Prolific! Continuing our series on different movements within composition studies, this time around, we’re focusing on feminism! As usual, the beginning of this episode runs through the history of feminism as it’s been implemented into composition, going over key articles and people within that scholarship. The latter part of the episode is a conversation I had with three other graduate students at Michigan State University. For now, here are a list of references in APA style! Also, I’ve noticed that the references in the show notes for some podcast players are formatting all weirdly. If you need to see them formatted correctly, feel free to stop by the Soundcloud page for the podcast at bit.ly/ProlificPodcast.

Hello! After two years, Prolific: A Podcast Journey Through Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication makes its triumphant return—and with a new format! This time, the episodes will cover a specific movement within the field, followed by a rundown of crucial texts in the field, key folks in that movement, and then a conversation about that movement with a bunch of other graduate students.


This time around, we focus on queer theory and studies in the field of composition. First, we run through some of the major trends in the field, and I spotlight some great resources for learning more about what early, queer-focused scholarship looked like at that time. Then, I move us into a conversation I had with 4 other graduate students in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures program at Michigan State University.

Sorry about the delay in episodes. If you’re wondering about that, I’ll catch you up on what my life has been like since the last episode!

Hello! After two years, Prolific: A Podcast Journey Through Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication makes its triumphant return—and with a new format! This time, the episodes will cover a specific movement within the field, followed by a rundown of crucial texts in the field, key folks in that movement, and then a conversation about that movement with a bunch of other graduate students.


This time around, we focus on queer theory and studies in the field of composition. First, we run through some of the major trends in the field, and I spotlight some great resources for learning more about what early, queer-focused scholarship looked like at that time. Then, I move us into a conversation I had with 4 other graduate students in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures program at Michigan State University.

Sorry about the delay in episodes. If you’re wondering about that, I’ll catch you up on what my life has been like since the last episode! So sit back, relax (or work, or run, or whatever you do when you listen to podcasts), and enjoy! Also, feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] or on twitter @willflowers.

References:

Alexander, J. (2008). Literacy Sexuality Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.

Alexander, J. (2005). "Straightboyz4Nsync": Queer theory and the composition of heterosexuality. JAC, 25(2), 371-395. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20866694

Alexander, J. & Gibson, M. (2004). Queer composition(s): Queer theory in the writing classroom. JAC, 24(1), 1-21. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20866610

Alexander, J. & Banks, W. (2004). Sexualities, technologies, and the teaching of writing: A critical overview. Computers and Composition, 21(3), 273-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2004.05.005

Alexander, J. & Rhodes, J. (2011). Queer: An impossible subject for composition. JAC, 31(1/2), 177-206. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20866990

Alexander, J. & Wallace, D. (2009). The queer turn in composition studies: Reviewing and assessing an emerging scholarship. College Composition and Communication, 61(1), 300-320. Retrieved from http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CCC/0611-sep09/CCC0611Queer.pdf

Cooper, J. (2004). Queering the contact zone. JAC, 24(1), 23-45. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20866611

Crew, L. & Keener, K. (1981). Homophobia in the academy: A report of the committee on gay/lesbian concerns. College English, 43(7), 682-689. doi: 10.2307/376607

DeWitt, S.L. (1997), Out there on the web: Pedagogy and identity in face of opposition. Computers and Composition, 14(2), 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/S8755-4615(97)90024-4

Elliot, M. (1996). Coming out in the classroom: A return to a hard place. College English, 58(6), 693-708. doi: 10.2307/378394

Gibson, M., Marinara, M. & Meem, D. (2000). Bi, butch, and bar dyke: Pedagogical performances of class, gender, and sexuality. College Composition and Communication, 52(1), 69-95. doi: 10.2307/358545

Kopelson, K. (2002). Dis/integrating the gay/queer binary "reconstructed identity politics" for a performative pedagogy. College English, 65(1). 17-35. doi: 10.2307/3250728

Monson, C. & Rhodes, J. (2004). Risking queer pedagogy, performativity, and desire in writing classrooms. JAC, 24(1), 79-91. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20866613

Regan, A. (1993). “Type normal like the rest of us”: Writing, power, and homophobia in the networked composition classroom. Computers and Composition, 9(4), 11-23. Retrieved from http://candcblog.org/computersandcomposition/archives/v10/10_4_html/10_4_2_Regan.html

Rhodes, J. (2004). Homo origo: The queertext manifesto. Computers and Composition, 21(3), 385-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2004.05.001