Featured Sessions are comprised of 75-minute panel presentations by two or three featured speakers.  Each panel offers a critical perspective from a specific site, such as post-colonial and feminist studies, historical research, national writing programs, or the teaching of English composition in US community colleges or universities in China, South Africa, Jamaica, Slovakia, and Beruit. 

Featured Speakers and Panel Descriptions:

Maria Corejova (Galerie 13m3)

Qu Weiguo (Fudan University)

Caroline Dyche (University of West Indies): "The Rhetoric & Composition/Linguistics nexus and the Challenge to English Language Hegemony in the 'Anglophone' Caribbean"

Rochelle Kapp (University of Cape Town)

Thom Fox

Stephen Ruffus: "Real Labor: Fast Capitalism, Market Demand, and the Work of Composition in the Community College"

Lives, Literacies, and the Work of Language

Gail Hawisher

Cynthia Selfe

Working English for Transnational Activism

Wendy Hesford: "Global Narratives: Human Rights, Development, and the Literacy Myth"

Eileen Schell: "Global/Local Actions: Working English for Global Environmental Justice"

David Jolliffe: "The Community Literacy Advocacy Project: Civic Revival through Rhetorical Activity in Rural Arkansas"

 Peter Mortensen: "The Storied University: Students as Producers and Consumers of Narrative Knowledge about Higher Learning"

LuMing Mao: "The Spread of English and the Formation of Indigenous Rhetorics"

Morris Young: "Labor, Bodies, and the Work of Asian American Rhetoric"

Paul Kei Matsuda

Christine Tardy

The World Through Screens: Participatory Popular Culture and Literacy Practices Across Borders

Bronwyn Williams

Amy Zenger (American University of Beirut)