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speaker series

The interdisciplinary graduate minor in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies sponsors a speaker series to engage faculty and graduate students in rich discussions about the uses of language, reading, and writing. We have published many of the papers delivered in the series; these are available below in pdf format.

For other literacy- and rhetorical studies-related events at the University of Minnesota, check out these websites:

Writing Research Colloquium: ISW Grants Projects, November 13, 2009 (Center for Writing, College of Liberal Arts)

Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric, October 22-24, 2009 (Institute for Advanced Study)

Wednesday Noon Research Meetings (Department of Communication Studies, College of Liberal Arts)

Thursdays at Four and Events (Institute for Advanced Study)

Art to Z (a listing of thought-provoking lectures, discussions, artistic exhibits, and performances to at the University of Minnesota)

2009-2010 Lecture Series (School of Law)

Events (University Libraries)

past literacy & rhetorical studies speakers

2007 Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch
Chris Anson	Engaging Students in Digital Writing
Thom Swiss	Visit the Digital Writing wiki, which is designed to support the speakers' book, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools
2006 Salman Rushdie	“Step Across This Line”
2004 James Fallows	Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow: After the 2004 Elections
2004 Jodi O'Brien	Sexual Silence and Shame and Good Ol' American Values	PDF
2003 Patricia Bizzell	Future Directions for Rhetorical Traditions	PDF
2003 Dr. Susan Love	Good Writing = Strong Medicine: Dr. Susan Love's Rhetorical Prescriptions for Better Health	PDF
2003 Deborah Brandt	Reading, Writing, Wealth, and the New Economy	PDF
2002 Daryl Baldwin	The Miami Language: Reclamation at Ground Zero	PDF
2002 Chris Ware & Ira Glass	Glass/Ware: New Media for Writing American Lives	PDF
2001 Rubin “Hurricane” Carter	New Literacies for a New Millenium: Forging University/ Community Partnerships	PDF
2001 Janice Radway	Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation	PDF
2000 Bernadette Longo	Giant Brains Controlling Scientific Knowledge: History (in Progress) of Human-Computer Relationships	PDF
2000 Susan Miller	The History, A History, and Liminal Spaces: Common Books in Three Keys	PDF
2000 Ray Suarez	The Talking 21st Century: Public Discourse and the Written Word in an Accelerating World	PDF
1999 David Hall	The Old and the New: Literacy and Reading in Eighteenth- Century America	PDF
1999 Toby Fulwiler	Teaching Writing as a Liberal Art: Ideas that Made the Difference	PDF
1999 Min-Zhan Lu	The Politics of Critical Affirmation	PDF
1998 Edward Schiappa	Constructing Reality through Definitions: The Politics of Meaning	PDF
1998 Lester Faigley	Visual Rhetoric: Literacy by Design	PDF
1997 Carol Berkenkotter	Settings and the Institutional Organization of Language	PDF
1997 Kathleen Yancey	Discourses, Rhetorics, Selves: Writing Assessment in the Academy	PDF
1996 Susan Miller	The Cultural Work of Local Authorship: Political Rhetorics of Expression	PDF
1996 Susan McLeod	Whither WAC? Reflections on the Silver Anniversary of Writing Across the Curriculum	PDF
1995 Geneva Smitherman	African American English: From the Hood to the Amen Corner	PDF
1994 Charles Bazerman	Students Being Disciplined: Getting Confused, Getting By, Getting Rewarded, Getting Smart, Getting Real.	PDF
Art Young	The Wonder of Writing Across the Curriculum
1992 Andrea Lunsford	Literacy, Intellectual Property, and the Status Quo: Scenes for Writing in the Academy	PDF
1991 Jacqueline Jones Royster	Diversity and Writing: Dialogue Within a Modern University	PDF

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