Thursday, September 20, Noon; HBC 239
A brown-bag lunch and informal discussion on her recent edited collection Alternative Rhetorics; all teachers welcome

Thursday, Sept 20 4:00; 1916 Room, Bird Library
"Identifying Identity: An Investigation Into the Erasure of Differences"; all teachers welcome; reception to follow

Friday, Sept. 21 1:00-2:30; 1916 Room, Bird Library
"Preparing For the Job Market in Rhetoric and Composition: A Discussion of the Good, the Bad, and the Not-So-Ugly"; all teachers welcome; reception to follow

Laura Gray-Rosendale (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~lag) is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and former Chair of Northern Arizona University’s Commission on the Status of Women. She teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in cultural studies, the history of rhetoric, gender studies, and basic writing. Her books are Rethinking Basic Writing: Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in Interaction (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2000) and Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition (SUNY Press 2001). Her work has appeared numerous times in Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture, Concerns, Journal of Basic Writing, as well as Composition Forum, and can be found in anthologies such as Getting a Life: Autobiography and Postmodernism, Miss Grundy Doesn't Teach Here Anymore: How Popular Culture Has Changed the Composition Classroom, The Personal Narrative: Writing Ourselves as Teachers and Scholars, Multiple Literacies for the Twenty-First Century, Questioning Authority and The Literacy Standard. She is currently working on a book titled Fractured Feminisms for SUNY Press with Gil Harootunian and another about basic writing and the Southwest titled Basic Writing's Others.

Click here for Professor Gray-Rosendale's PowerPoint Presentation.