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Submissions from 2023
Intelligent Agents: Automating Folio for Student Success, Lisa Dusenberry
Telling Stories, Crafting Mindsets: Using Picture Books to Embody Computational Thinking, Lisa Dusenberry
Sustainable, Accessible, Feasible, Effective (SAFE) School Safety Planning: Educator preparedness in crisis detection and response, Katherine Fallon, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Dawn Tysinger, Chad Posick, and Mary Jo Carney
Marilyn Monroe, Murderess: How a Femme Fatale Role Shaped Monroe's Star Persona, Amanda Konkle
Challenging Misconceptions about Text Recycling, Michael A. Pemberton
Submissions from 2022
What Did American’s Know?, Lisa A. Costello
Writing as Perceiving: Defamiliarization, Normalization and Juxtaposition, Laura Valeri
A Story Walks into a Bar, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2021
New Imperial Rhetoric in Contemporary Policy and Popular Media, Chris Cartright and Jane V. Rago
Higher Education and the Precarity of WGSS Programs, Lisa A. Costello
Space as a Facilitator of Exchange: Programming at American Holocaust Museums during the Pandemic, Lisa A. Costello
Managing Difficult Conversations Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Recognizing Bias Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
FIKA With Fellows, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Managing Difficult Conversations Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Managing Difficult Conversations Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Teachers and Technology: Access to and Use of Digital Tools in the Classroom, Lisa Dusenberry and Joy Robinson
Linguistically responsive instruction and responding to student writing: A research synthesis, Jinrong Li
Teaching multilingual writing students through game-based activities, Jinrong Li
Inclusive Grammars, Alternative Perspectives, Nuanced Meanings, Jinrong Li, D. Rossen-Knill, W. Gegg-Harrison, C. Paraskevas, A. Rose, and M. Gapotchenko
Media in the Wake of COVID and the Uprisings, Kendra R. Parker
‘The Portrait Was a Black Madonna’: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church, Kendra R. Parker
“The Portrait was a Black Madonna”: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church, Kendra R. Parker
The Parable of the Sower: An Octavia E. Butler Book Discussion, Kendra R. Parker and Kristen Lillvis
Submissions from 2020
Hospitality as a Rhetorical Lens to Understand Empowerment and Leadership in the Workplace and Avenues to Build Inclusive Workplace Practices, Lisa A. Costello
Managing Difficult Conversations Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Recognizing Bias Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Recognizing Bias Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Assessing Multimodal Writing in L2 Contexts: A Research Synthesis, Jinrong Li
One-way communication or purposeful dialogue: An empirical study of writing instructors’ feedback practices, Jinrong Li
Writing pedagogy in teaching ESL/EFL writing: A research synthesis, Jinrong Li
LILAC and Citation Project: Pedagogical Implications, Jinrong Li and Sandra Jamieson
African American Journeys to 2020, Kendra R. Parker
To be Black, female, and immigrant—oh, the horror!: The Vampire Queen in Richard Wenk’s Vamp, Kendra R. Parker
Abolition in American Literature: A Nation Removes Its Shackles—Frederick Douglass, David Walker, and Harriet Jacobs, Kendra R. Parker
‘...in the fresh young darkness close together ’:Teaching Redefining Realness, Kendra R. Parker
I Studied My History; I Studied My Past: Culture, Gender, and Race in Beyoncé’s Homecoming, Kendra R. Parker
“A Reading with South85 Journal” Reader, Laura Valeri
Contemplating a Paradise Lost, Laura Valeri
Creative and Career-Minded Processes from the Classroom and Beyond, Laura Valeri
Submissions from 2019
Can Survey Data Queer a Southern Campus? Re-evaluating Space with Results of a Campus-wide Student Perception Survey of Life, Sex, and Sexuality, Lisa A. Costello
The Bureaucratic (Im)possibilities of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Lisa A. Costello
Why Comics Matter: History and Memory in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Lisa A. Costello
Communication & Collaboration: Creating Stronger Office Collaborations, Lisa Dusenberry
Coding to Compose, Lisa Dusenberry and Joy Robinson
Language, grammar, and power, Jinrong Li
Understand the challenges in writing facing multilingual students, Jinrong Li
Language learning needs of basic writers and multilingual writers: Similarities and differences, Jinrong Li and Peggy J. Lindsey
Rethinking the Role of Feedback in Performance Composition, Jinrong Li, Peggy Lindsey, and Warren Merkel
Harnessing the Shadows: Ghosts, Vampires, and Undying Relationships to Our Past, Kendra R. Parker
Her Bondage and Her Freedom? Roxane Gay’s Hunger as Kin to Emancipatory Narratives, Kendra R. Parker
The role of Turnitin in peer review: Comparing L1 and L2 students’ use of PeerMark and their perceptions, Kevin Psonak, Mimi Li, and Jinrong Li
Managing the Team to Manage the Project, Joy Robinson and Lisa Dusenberry
Submissions from 2018
‘Stupidly good’: A Classical Context for Milton’s Satan, Christopher P. Baker
LILAC and Citation Project Workshop, Jeanne Bohannon, Sandra Jamieson, Jinrong Li, J. R. Walker, and Carrie Wastal
The LILAC Project: Evaluating Students’ Languaging in Digital Spaces to Provide Pedagogies That Transform Information Literacies, Jeanne Bohannon, Jinrong Li, and Janice R. Walker
Critical Solidarity in the Neoliberal University, Chris Cartright and Jane V. Rago
The Responsibility of Rhetoricians to Challenge the Binary of Safe vs. ____?: Reinventing Safe Space as Brave Space, Lisa A. Costello
Diversity & Inclusion in the Classroom: What’s the D.I.F.F.?, Lisa A. Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Stacy Smallwood, and Clare F. Walsh
Diversity & Inclusion in the Classroom: What’s the D.I.F.F.?, Lisa A. Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare F. Walsh
What’s the D.I.F.F.?, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Stacy Smallwood, and Dina C. Walker-DeVose
What’s the D.I.F.F.?, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Dina C. Walker-DeVose
Coding Meaningful Actions in Children's Digital Citizenship Web Games, Lisa Dusenberry
Contextualizing Research Through Serious Game Design, Lisa Dusenberry
Expanding Academic Job Options: Building a Bridge from Literature to Professional Writing and Communication, Lisa Dusenberry
Problem Solving, Adaptability, and Mediation, Lisa Dusenberry
The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media, Carol P. Jamison
Spanglish and the Evolution of English, Carol Parrish Jamison
Marilyn Monroe, Murderess, Amanda Konkle
Postfeminism the Musical: The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Amanda Konkle
Assessment Across Online Language Education, S. Link and Jinrong Li
Design Thinking and Game Design: A Productive Relationship for Writing Pedagogy?, Sarah W. Lozier-Laiola, Joy Robinson, Laquana Cooke, and Lisa Dusenberry
Implementing Psychological Safety Training to Address Workplace Trends in Collaboration, Joy Robinson and Lisa Dusenberry
Keywords and Concepts in Technical and Professional Communication, Joy Robinson and Lisa Dusenberry
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Lisa Costello, and Stacy Smallwood
From Hypothetical to Real Life: Writing Assignments as Experiential Learning, Laura Valeri, Suzanne Cope, Amy Cicchino, and Jason Peters
Submissions from 2017
Volpone as Hobbesian Comedy, Christopher P. Baker
Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum (LILAC): Discussing Results from a CCCC Research Initiative Project, Jeanne Bohannon, Jinrong Li, and Janice R. Walker
Creating Safer Spaces for Staff and Students: Title IX and Non-Discrimination, Lisa A. Costello
Creating Safer Spaces for Staff and Students: Title IX and Non-Discrimination, Lisa A. Costello
Developing Online Materials for Thesis Preparation, Lisa A. Costello
Serious Communication: Quandary, Complexity, and Decision Making, Lisa Dusenberry
Sustainable Collaborations: Training Teams in Psychological Safety, Lisa Dusenberry
The Future in Code: Blending Narrative and Instruction in Coding and Programming Stories for Kids, Lisa Dusenberry
Tutoring Multimodal Assignments, Lisa Dusenberry
Why Should English Majors Learn to Code? Teaching Writing Strategies and Game Design in English/Professional Communication, Lisa Dusenberry
The Art of Losing: Reflections on Reading and Teaching, Re-Visioning and Regeneration, Helen E. Howells
'Old Tales Are Like Old Friends': Reimagining and Retelling in Westeros, Carol P. Jamison
Teaching Westeros: Medievalism, Medieval Studies, and George R. R. Martin, Carol P. Jamison
COLA Dean’s List celebration: Guest Speaker, Prof.Carol Parrish Jamison, Carol Parrish Jamison
Sigma Tau Delta induction, Carol Parrish Jamison
Postfeminism the Musical: The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Amanda Konkle
Tablets and Research Assignments: Increased Access or a Waste of Time?, Amanda Konkle
Preparing English Language Learners for Academic Writing: A Functional Linguistic Approach, Jinrong Li and Alisa Leckie