Conference Archive

Note: We are still trying to identify the names of several Watson assistant directors from previous years. If you have any information that would allow us to properly credit them in this archive, please reach out to us at . Thanks!
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Toward the Antiracist Conference: Reckoning with the Past, Reimagining the Present (2021)

Director: Andrea Olinger

Assistant Directors: Caitlin Burns Allen and Alex Way

Publication: Writers: Craft & Context (vol. 3, no. 1) special Issue, 2022, edited by Andrea R. Olinger, Caitlin Burns Allen, Michael J. Benjamin, and Alex Way

2021 Conference Materials

Making Future Matters (2018)

Director: Mary P. Sheridan

Assistant Directors: Cooper Day, Joe Franklin, and Ashanka Kumari

Publication: Making Future Matters, 2018, Utah State University Press, edited by Rick Wysocki and Mary P. Sheridan

2018 Conference Materials

Mobility Work in Composition: Translation, Migration, Transformation (2016)

Director: Bruce Horner

Assistant Directors: Megan Faver Hartline, Laura Sceniak Matravers, and Ashanka Kumari

Publication: Mobility Work in Composition,  2021, Utah State University Press, edited by Bruce Horner, Megan Faver Hartline, Ashanka Kumari, and Laura Sceniak Matravers

Responsivity: Defining, Encouraging, Enacting (2014)

Director: Mary P. Sheridan

Assistant Directors: Megan Faver Hartline, Megan Hartline, and Drew Holladay

Publication: Journal of Advanced Composition (vol. 34, no. ½) Special Issue (2014) & Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social Action (2018, Rowman and Littlefield), edited by Mary P. Sheridan, Megan Bardolph, Megan Hartline, and Drew Holladay

Economies of Writing (2012)

Director: Bruce Horner

Assistant Directors: Amy Lueck and Brice Nordquist

Publication: Journal of Advanced Composition (vol. 32, no. ¾)  Special Issue (2012)& Economies of Writing: Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition, (2017, Utah State University Press), edited by Bruce Horner, Brice Nordquist, and Susan M. Ryan

Reworking English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global-Local Contexts, Commitments, Contexts (2010)

Director: Min-Zhan Lu

Assistant Directors: Brice Nordquist and Vanessa Kraemer Sohan

Publication: Journal of Advanced Composition (vol. 29, no. ½) Special Issue (2009) & Reworking English in Rhetoric and Composition (2014, Southern Illinois University Press), edited by Bruce Horner and Karen Kopelson

The New Work of Composing (2008)

Director: Debra Journet

Assistant Directors: Ryan Trauman and TBD

Publication: The New Work of Composing, 2012, Utah State University Press, edited by Debra Journet, Cheryl Ball, and Ryan Trauman

Narrative Knowledge, Narrative Action (2006)

Director: Debra Journet

Assistant Directors: TBD

Publication: Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race and Identity, Knowledge, 2011, Hampton Press, edited by Debra Journet, Beth Boehm and Cynthia Britt

Writing at the Center (2004)

Director: Carol Mattingly

Assistant Directors: Kara Poe Alexander and TBD

Publication: Writing at the Center: Proceedings of the 2004 Thomas R. Watson Conference, 2008, WCA Press, Edited by JoAnn Griffin, Carol Mattingly, & Michele Eodice

Composing Identities (2002)

Director: Pamela Takayoshi

Assistant Directors: Kara Poe Alexander and TBD

Publication: Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education, 2006, Utah State University Press, edited by Bronwyn T. Williams

Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy (2000)

Director: Pamela Takayoshi

Assistant Directors: TBD

Publication: Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy, 2007, Hampton Press, edited by Pamela Takayoshi and Patricia Sullivan

Multiple Literacies for the Twenty-First Century (1998)

Director: Brian Huot

Assistant Directors: TBD

Publication: Multiple Literacies for the Twenty-First Century, 2004, Hampton Press, edited by Brian Huot, Beth Stroble and Charles Bazerman

The Professionalization of Composition, 1963-1993 (1996)

Director: Debra Journet and Beth Boehm

Assistant Directors: TBD

Publication: History, reflection, and narrative: the professionalization of composition, 1963-1983, 1999, Ablex Publishing, edited by Mary Rosner, Beth Boehm, and Debra Journet