News from DePaul University's Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse
The WRD Department hosted Dr. Frankie Condon for its Autumn Quarter Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders Speaker Series. Dr. Condon, an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, led a workshop and a talk on anti-racism and racial imaginaries.
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For the last four years, WRD Assistant Professor Jason Schneider has been conducting a longitudinal study that follows a cohort of international students through their journeys and academic careers at DePaul University.
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For the Autumn Quarter’s Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders Speaker Series, WRD has invited Dr. Frankie Condon to speak on Tuesday, October 22. In her talk, Dr. Condon will discuss the racial imaginations present among writing teachers and tutors and assess how it influences the pedagogical values and systems at play in their environments.
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We are excited to announce the Winter Quarter event for our Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders speaker series. We will be welcoming Dr. Juan C. Guerra to our department on Monday, February 18 at 4:30–6:00pm in McGowan South 105.
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On November 21, 2018, DePaul’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse signed a formal agreement with the College of DuPage (COD) that creates a curriculum pathway relationship between the English department at COD and the Major in WRD.
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In autumn quarter 2018, WRD extended a warm welcome to Professor Tim Elliott, the newest tenure-track member of the WRD faculty. He will teach undergraduate and graduate Professional Writing courses at DePaul. This quarter, Professor Elliott is teaching graduate course WRD 523: Editing and undergraduate course WRD 301: Writing in Workplace Contexts.
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Introduction Kathy Blake Yancey joined the WRD Department as a part of its quarterly speaker series, Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders. Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. Her presentation, “Tracing College Writers’ Prior Knowledge: What Is It, and How Can it Help Us Teach Writing Better?” highlighted why and how teachers should draw on students’ various prior knowledges about writing.
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Here’s an update on what some of our MA in NMS and MA in WRD students, graduates, and faculty members have been up to in the last six months!
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The WRD Department welcomed Dr. Elaine Richardson, Professor of Literacy Studies from The Ohio State University, as part of our ongoing quarterly speakers series, Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders. Dr. Richardson’s talk was co-sponsored by the Department of African and Black Diaspora Studies as well as the Department of Women and Gender Studies and the Black Cultural Center.
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Recently the WRD department welcomed speaker Todd Ruecker to discuss his research on working with multilingual writers in the composition classroom. Ruecker is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at New Mexico University and author of Transiciones: Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College, an ethnography focusing on the writing practices of several Latino students as they transition from high school to college. Ruecker’s research focuses on the increasing diversity of the writing classroom and the role institutions and instructors play in making classrooms more engaging and successful environments for multilingual writers.
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