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Events: 2009 English Schedule
English Summary
Friday, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
"Reading and Writing in the Digital Age"
Speaker: Alan Cheuse, Professor of English, George Mason University
Saturday, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
"Visual Rhetoric and Argument: I See Your Point"
Speaker: John Ruszkiewicz, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, February 20th, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
"Reading and Writing in the Digital Age"
Speaker: Alan Cheuse, Professor of English, George Mason University
Biography:
Alan Cheuse has been reviewing books on All Things Considered since the 1980s. Formally trained as a literary scholar, Alan also writes fiction and novels and publishes short stories. He is the author of three novels, two collections of short fiction, and the memoir Fall out of Heaven. With Caroline Marshall, he has edited two volumes of short stories. Alan’s short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Antioch Review, Ploughshares, and Another Chicago Magazine. His most recent collection of his short fiction was published in September 1998 and his essay collection, Listening to the Page, appeared in 2001.
Alan splits his time between the two coasts, spending nine months of the year in Washington, D.C., where he teaches writing at George Mason University. His summers are spent in Santa Cruz, Calif. teaching writing at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Cheuse earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature with a focus on Latin American literature from Rutgers University in 1974.
"The greatest challenge of this work [at NPR]," he says, "is to make each two-minute review as fresh and interesting as you can while trying to focus on the essence of the book itself."
Saturday, February 21st, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
"Visual Rhetoric and Argument: I See Your Point"
Speaker: John Ruszkiewicz, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, University of Texas at Austin
In this presentation, John will demonstrate how visual texts can make it easier for teachers to explain key rhetorical concepts, such as audience, purpose, and genre, as well as ethos, pathos, and logos.
Biography:
John Ruszkiewicz is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he has taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for more than thirty years. A winner of the Presidents Associates Teaching Excellence Award, he was instrumental in creating the Department of Rhetoric and Writing in 1993 and directed the unit from 2001-05. He has also served as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) of Texas. Among his numerous textbooks (with Bedford/St. Martins) are The Presence of Others and Everythings An Argument, both co-authored with Andrea Lunsford. His most recent book is entitled How to Write Anything.
English Section Chair: H. F. Poehlmann, Blinn College