The Light ACETA The Light Winter 2017 2017 Vol. 1 Getting Jazzed: Innovations in Teaching English ACETA s 69 th Annual Conference it seems appropriate to ask humanities scholars statewide to reconsider what we have traditionally defined as English Studies. Auburn University in Montgomery March 3-4, 2017 Over the last decade or so, the field of English studies has been expanding to include texts of all types from the traditional photograph to the Internet meme and from the traditional research essay to the online paper with hyperlinks to video and audio sources. Welcome to this year s ACETA conference, Getting Jazzed: Innovations in Teaching English we hope you are as excited as we are! The conference schedule is on pages 3-5; maps on pages 6 & 7. Be sure to print off the parking pass and park in the main parking lot in front of the Taylor Center. See you there! Conference information AUM - Taylor Center 7400 East Dr. Montgomery, AL 36177 (Just off the Taylor Rd Exit on I-85) www.aum.edu Hotel Information: The following hotels have conference rates for AUM. When you make your reservation, mention that you are attending the ACETA conference at AUM. Hampton Inn- Montgomery, East Chase Staybridge Suites- Montgomery, East Chase Current rates are around $119-129 a night
Alabama Writers Symposium April 20-21, 2017 Every spring Alabama s literary community gathers in Monroeville, Alabama to celebrate the state s rich literary heritage at the Alabama Writers Symposium. Some of Alabama s most celebrated writers and scholars lead discussion sessions, readings and workshops on themes ranging from Literary Gumbo to Murder, Mystery and Mayhem and everything in between. Annual event highlights include the presentation of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama s Distinguished Writer and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama s Distinguished Literary Scholar, both made possible through a generous grant from George F. Landegger. Delicious food, art exhibits, music, booksellers and author signings round out the event's entertainment. All events take place in Monroeville on the campus of Coastal Alabama Community, at the Monroeville Community House and the Monroe County Museum downtown. CCCC 2017 March The 2017 Conference on Composition and Communication will be held in Portland, Oregon, March 15-18.. There are special rates for adjuncts, retirees, and veterans. For more information, go to www.ncte.org/cccc/conv/regis tration NCTE 2017 The National Council of Teachers of English will hold its Annual Convention in St. Louis, Missouri on Nov.16-18. The theme is Teaching Our Students Today, Tomorrow, Forever: Recapturing Our Voices, Our Agency, Our Mission. Program chair Jocelyn A. Chadwick: As English teachers PreK through graduate school we should all seek the same aim: to inform, to expose, to energize, to foment within our students their lifelong ability and desire to think, write, speak, listen, and act critically, regardless of the obvious and not so obvious impediments.
2017 Conference Schedule Friday, March 3 1:30-2:45p Registration (Taylor 222) 3:00-4:15p Welcome and Award Winning Papers (Taylor 222) Mary Evelyn McMillan Undergraduate Writing Award Winner Sarah Pitts, A Place for the Displaced - nominated by Dr. Miriam Clark, Auburn University Honorable Mention: Victoria Douglas, Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: Interpreting Antoinette Mason and Edward Rochester - nominated by Dr. Stacey Parham, Judson James Woodall Award Winner Candace Chambers, Let s Take a Selfie! #Writing with #selfies in the First-Year Composition Classroom, University of Alabama William J. Calvert Award Winner Sayler Hasty, Slow Violence: The Environmental and Creative Impact of Women s Coloring Work in Nineteenth-Century England, Auburn University Honorable Mention: Brett Fish, The Postmodern Christ: Is Slaughterhouse- Five Enough Anymore? University of North Alabama 4:30-5:45p Concurrent Sessions #1 Dangerous Writing, Thinking, and Teaching (Goodwyn 114) Moderator: Shannon Howard - Angela Farmer, Troy University, I Love a Good Metaphorical Witch Hunt - Larry Beason, University of South Alabama, Beyond Doomsday Prepping: Teaching and Reimagining Post- Apocalyptic Fiction - Carrie Busby, University of Alabama Body Consciousness in Composition: Finding Comfort in Collaborative Spaces A Jazzed-up Conference: An Innovative Approach (Goodwyn 116) Moderator: Ben Robertson
- Ben P. Robertson, Troy University - Katona Dail Weddle, Troy University - Shannon Thompson, Troy University - Ekaterina Kobeleva, Troy University 5:45 6:30p Reception 6:45-8:00p Dinner & Keynote Shannon Howard and Lilian Mina, AUM Master of Teaching Writing (Taylor 223) Saturday, March 4 9:00-9:50a Registration (Taylor 222) 10:00-11:15a Concurrent Sessions #2 The Graduate Teaching Assistant Jive: Pedagogy Tweaks from Student/Teacher Duality (Goodwyn 114) Roundtable led by Brett Fish and Stephanie Adair, University of North Alabama Teaching the Nuts and Bolts of Writing (Goodwyn 116) Moderator: TBD - James Ortego, Troy University, Outsourcing Grammar in the 21st Century Composition Classroom: The Experiment at Troy University s Satellite Campuses - Theresa Johnson and Shannon Thompson, Troy University, Composition Instruction: The Importance of Explicit Instruction of the Narrative Genre - Eric Sterling, Auburn University in Montgomery, New Methods of Teaching Playwriting Composition as Performance (AV) (Goodwyn 110) Moderator: TBD - Lucas Johnson, Birmingham-Southern, I Dreamed I Died and Woke Up in an Essay : The Video Essay as Innovation in the Teaching of English? - Cynthia Mwenja, University of Alabama, Collaboration, Inclusiveness, Improvisation, and Play: Restorative Composition Practices as Jazz Ensemble Performance - Candace Chambers, University of Alabama, Using #Selfies to Cultivate Identity within the Freshman Composition Classroom - Ashley Burge, University of Alabama, Pop Feminism or Slaying with Beyonce: Teaching Intersectional Feminism in the Composition Classroom
11:15-11:30a Coffee Break (Goodwyn Lobby) 11:30a-12:45p Concurrent Sessions #3 Rhetorical Performances (Goodwyn 111) Moderator: TBD - Donovan Cleckley, University of Montevallo, The Harlequin Writing Process: Insiders, Outsiders, and Differences - Kelsey Worsham, University of Alabama, Students Right to Their Own Language: Exploring the Use of Language in the First Year Writing Classroom - Keshia McClantoc, University of Montevallo, Common Sense : Campus Rape, Victim- Blaming, and Rhetorical Agency - Hannah Hurley, University of Montevallo, #rhetoric: The Public Subjectivity of Hashtags in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Engaging Contemporary Literary Theory and Classic Fairy Tales: An Application of African- American Criticism, Queer Theory, and Ecocriticism (AV) (Goodwyn 114) Moderator: Stacey Parham - Stacey Parham, Judson - Sarah Green, Judson - Kaitlyn Garrison, Judson - Victoria Douglas, Judson Of Light and Darkness: Colonialism and Discourses on the Racial Other during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment (Goodwyn 110) Moderator: Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi - Jazzmine Walker, Alabama A & M University, Cannibals as a Trope: Christopher Columbus Hand in Justifying the Colonization of the Racial Other - Melissa Knight, Alabama A & M University, What s in a Name? : The Act of Colonial Appropriation through Designation - Gatsinzi Basaninyenzi, Alabama A & M University, Ideology and Hegemony: The Illiberal Locke and Jefferson We Know Little About 1:00-2:15p Lunch, Business Meeting, and Concluding Remarks (Taylor 223)
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2016 Winners Mary Evelyn McMillan Undergraduate Writing Award The Weight of a Lesson by Daniel Lawrence, Lurleen B. Wallace Community Honorable Mention: Our Life, Our Decisions, Our Happiness by Jennifer Beck, Auburn University William J. Calvert Award Bettering the Instruction: Portia as a Merchant of Identity by Helen Companion, Jacksonville State University Honorable Mention: Ecocritical Eden: Milton s Imperial Masterpiece by Shelby Heathcoat, University of North Alabama James Woodall Award Contemplative Practice in the Poetry Classroom by Julie Steward, Samford University Honorable Mention: Dickensian: The Brainwashing of Victorian England by Kristy White, Lurleen B. Wallace Community ACETA Steering Committee 2016-17 President Bryan Johnson Samford University Vice-president Rebecca Duncan Lawson State Community Executive Secretary Anissa Graham University of North Alabama Past President Gloria Horton Jacksonville State University-retired NCTE Liaison Steve Hubbard Lurleen B. Wallace Community Members At Large Loretta Burns Tuskegee University Peter B. Green Alabama A&M University Pamela Horn Southern Union State Community Christy Hutcheson Lurleen B. Wallace Community
2016 ACETA Conference Music, Awards, and Stimulating Sessions!
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