2012 Featured Speakers
The 2012 Watson Conference will offer a variety of featured sessions facilitated by established scholars.
Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington, Seattle
"Economies of Writing and the Rhetoric of Knowledge Transfer-ability"
Resa Crane Bizzaro, Indiana University, Pennsylvania
"Rhetorical Sovereignty and Power: Indigenous Peoples and Their Right to Health Care"
Tom Fox, California State University, Chico
"Getting Things Done: Economies of Value Within and Outside Radical Labor Press"
Diana George, Virginia Tech & Paula Mathieu, Boston College
"Circulating Voices of Dissent: Economies of Writing from the Streets"
Juan Guerra, University of Washington
"The Ecology of Writing Across Communities"
Asao Inoue, California State University, Fresno
"The Economy of Grades in the Writing Classroom"
Jay Jordan, University of Utah
"Virtual Squatters' Economies: Internationalized Web Domains and Multilingual Contact"
Michelle Hall Kells, University of New Mexico
Carmen Kynard, St. John’s University
Steve Lamos, University of Colorado
Tamera Marko, Emerson College & Duke University
Shondel Nero, New York University
"Transnationalism, Languaging, and Composition Writing in the US Academy"
Wendy Olson, Washington State University, Vancouver
" Writing Economies: Transnational Compositions in the Community College"
Kelly Ritter, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Economies of Writing at the Entrance Ramp: Graduate Student Writing Courses and the New 'Basic'"
David Russell, Iowa State University
Phyllis Ryder, George Washington University
"Beyond the 'Marketplace of Ideas': Rhetorics of Democracy in the Academy and on the Streets"
Tony Scott, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Valuation and the Political Economics of Assessment"
John Tassoni, Miami University
"Economies of Error: An Intersectional History of Basic Writing at a Public Ivy"
Scott Wible, University of Maryland
“Money, Marketing, and Machines: The Translation and Localization of Writing for Global Capitalism”
Bronwyn Williams, University of Louisville
"The Ideology of Blackboard: Rethinking Digital Media and Writing Pedagogy"

