Tag: WRD Speaker Series

Join us on Wednesday, April 22 at 6pm (reception at 5:30pm) in McGowan South 104 as WRD welcomes Professor T.R. Johnson from Tulane University. An associate professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Tulane, his most recent scholarly work explores the potentials of Lacanian psychoanalysis as a resource for thinking about undergraduate education and, in particular, the development of writing abilities. The focus of Johnson’s talk will be “Teaching Prose Style: Why and How.”

On October 21, Dr. Stuart Selber presented “Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age: Agents, Infrastructures, Pedagogies” to WRD students and faculty. In attendance at the event were students from both the WRD Proseminar and the NMS Proseminar, who have been reading Selber’s monograph Multiliteracies for a Digital Age. In his talk, Selber explored the ways current technologies set the social scene for teaching writing, rhetoric, and discourse to students at colleges and universities. Selber began by discussing commonly accepted characteristics of today’s students and the technologies and infrastructures that inform their reading and writing practices. He emphasized that procedural

  Date: October 21, 2014 Time: 6:00 – 7:00 pm (reception from 5:15-6:00) Location: McGowan South Room 104 DePaul’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse is excited to welcome Dr. Stuart A. Selber for a public guest lecture. Dr. Selber’s talk, “Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age: Agents, Infrastructures, Pedagogies,” will be held on October 21. A reception will be held at 5:15 pm, with Dr. Selber’s talk to follow at 6:00 pm. Dr. Selber is an Associate Professor of English and Science, Technology, and Society at Penn State, where his teaching and research interests lie at the intersection

On April 16, Dr. Chris Thaiss presented “Writing Programs Worldwide: The Present and Future of the WAC/WID Mapping Project” to WRD students and faculty. In his presentation, Thaiss presented findings from his research on mapping Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs across the world. Through his research, Thaiss aimed to determine the prevalence of WAC and WID programs in higher education, reveal trends in these programs, and evaluate how the programs have changed over time.

The department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University is pleased to welcome Dr. Chris Thaiss as the spring quarter WRD Speaker Series presenter. On Wednesday, April 16th, Dr. Thaiss will give his talk “Writing Programs Worldwide.”   Dr. Chris Thaiss is Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Professor in the University Writing Program (UWP) of the University of California at Davis. A member of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Graduate Group at UCD, he also serves as Principal Investigator of the Area 3 Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project.