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Keynotes 2013
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Thurs. Lunch Keynote: Bruce Horner &
Min-Zhan Lu:
A Translingual Approach to the Culture of Writing and Its
Teaching: Rewriting Difference
"We
argue for a translingual approach to teaching writing that treats language
not as a self-evident, pre-existing entity but as a dynamic process in
which language and its users are understood as mutually constitutive.
This approach acknowledges the agency of all writers in actively forming
and transforming language, identity, and culture through their writing.
Taking this approach changes the culture of writing and its teaching from
a focus on transmission of static norms to a focus on how writers might
produce particular meanings, and why, and from a focus on achieving
ostensible efficiency in reading and writing to a focus on the necessity
of labor, tolerance, negotiation, and patience in reading and writing."
--Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu
In Writing
Conventions,
the textbook Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu recently published, they offer a
way for teachers to engage students directly in sorting through their
confusion about such matters as composing processes, error, audience,
genres, purpose, vocabulary, and reading. In talks, workshops, and
published writings, Horner and Lu have explored the challenges and
practical possibilities of pursuing multilingual alternatives in
composition teaching and scholarship.
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Bruce Horner has been teaching
and studying writing for almost thirty years, first at the
University of Pittsburgh (where he earned his PhD); next at Drake
University in Des Moines,Iowa; then at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee as director of its first-year composition
program. He now teaches at the University of Louisville, where he
holds an appointment as Endowed Chair in Rhetoric and
Composition. He has devoted much of his teaching and scholarship to
exploring the uses of the ordinary work that is accomplished, or can
be, in first-year composition courses, particularly with so-called
“basic writers.”
Min-Zhan Lu is
a professor of English and University Scholar at the University of
Louisville. Her work focuses on the constructive uses of cultural
dissonance in the teaching and learning of writing and on theories
and practices of life writing as social acts. She has published
several noteworthy books on writing and on culture, and her work is
frequently cited and has been reprinted both in general readers and
in such scholarly collections as Feminism
and Composition, Landmark Essays in Basic Writing,
and
Landmark
Essays on Writing Processes. She
has received the Richard Braddock Award and the Mina Shaughnessy
Award for her essays. |
Bruce Horner
Read this and more about Bruce at
Louisville.edu....
Min-Zhan Lu:
Read this and more about Min at
PSU.edu/programs.... |
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Friday Lunch Keynote by Ed Bok Lee:
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ED BOK LEE is
the author of
Whorled
(Coffee House Press), winner of a 2012 American Book Award and of
a Minnesota Book Award for Poetry; and Real
Karaoke People (New
Rivers Press), winner of a 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award and of
an Asian American Literary Award (Members' Choice).
Lee has worked as a journalist, phys. ed.
instructor, bartender, and translator. He holds an MFA from Brown
University, teaches at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, and
has shared his work in journals, anthologies, and on stages across
North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as on public radio and
television and MTV. He also writes plays and fiction.
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Ed Bok Lee
Read this and more about Ed at
www.edboklee.com.
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Dr.
Bruce Horner
and
Dr. Min-Zhan Lu
Author Ed Bok Lee
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