Tori White has received a 2016-17 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. Tori’s summer UWP101 students produced a textbook, collaboratively choosing a topic, creating an annotated bibliography, selecting primary sources to include, and writing an introduction and discussion questions for each reading.
Melissa Bender presented the paper "Manzanar as Counter Memorial: Japanese American Internment Memorials and the Visual Rhetoric of National Identity" at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association in San Diego.
Together with colleagues Corrie Decker and Jenny Kaminer, Liz Constable is the recipient of a Seed Grant from the Feminist Research Institute of $6, 500 for a collaborative interdisciplinary and comparative feminist research project that examines the relationship between discursive constructions of youth and policy decisions. Liz presented part of this work at a UC Berkeley Mini-Colloquium on April 14th in a presentation titled "'Too Old for Heidi, Too Young for Carrie': Catachresis and Affective Absorption in Breillat's Cinema."
The University Writing Program’s Picnic Day exhibit won the Arts and Humanities Exhibit Award during this year’s Picnic Day! The award recognizes exhibits that highlight the university’s growth and showcase the vast diversity of UC Davis.
This was the Writing Program’s second-ever Picnic Day exhibit, and it featured a handmade, playable, 8-foot-tall Scrabble board, a laminated-bookmark-making station, and a 50-foot-wide, writing-on-the wall display.
Karma Waltonen has published the article "Modern Hero in a Postmodern Age" in the book The X-Files and Philosophy: The Truth is in Here. The article explores postmodernism through the episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space."
Frank Waln, an award winning Sicangu Lakota storyteller and Hip Hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, will present “Indigenous Storytelling through Hip Hop”on Tuesday, April 25th from 5:00-6:30pm in the Student Community Center Multi-Purpose Room (2nd floor). The event is sponsored by the UWP's Conversations with Writers, the Native American Retention Initiative, the Cross Cultural Center, and the Native Community.
Cassie Hemstrom has published the chapter "In a Research Writing Frame of Mind" in the book Rewired: Research-Writing Partnerships within the Frameworks published by the American Library Association.
Lindsay Sabotka and Cassie Hemstrom have partnered with the local Yolo County Animal Services Shelter to create service learning opportunities for their 104A business writing students. Shelter representatives have visited their classes and discussed the different rhetorical situations the shelter encounters in social media and promotional writing, and their students were able to analyze these situations, as well as the shelter's audiences and purposes in writing.
The Rhetoric@Davis Research Cluster and the UC Davis Bioethics Academy will host the event, CRISPR Ethics: Language is Moral Action, on February 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Join us and our interdisciplinary panel of experts for a lively discussion. Panelists, who are members of the UC Davis Bioethics Academy, will focus on CRISPR, a genome modification technique, to talk about language, ethics, and public deliberation in the face of scientific and technological uncertainty. They will do so from four perspectives: rhetoric and composition, religious studies, law, and bioethics.
Melissa Bender and Karma Waltonen's book, Twenty Writing Assignments in Context: An Instructor's Resource for the Composition Classroom, has been published by McFarland. More information about the book can be found at http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6509-2
When members of the University Writing Program learned that conservative pundit Milo Yiannopoulos would speak at UC Davis, they decided to help the kind of organization his writing attacks.
UWP members recently raised $400 to donate to the UC Davis Women's Research and Resources Center. They chose WRRC because of Yiannopoulos's widely publicized criticism of feminists in the video game and film industry.
Yiannopoulos has been accused of using his Breitbart News column to facilitate the online harassment of women, such as the all-female cast of 2016's Ghostbusters movie.
