Conference Archive

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