Composition, Rhetoric, and Culture Area
PCA/ACA - National Conference
San Antonio, TX - April 7-10, 2004
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2003
The Rhetoric, Composition, and Culture area of the National Popular
Culture Association is soliciting papers, panels, and presentations
dealing with these terms and their intersections, however broadly
construed. Papers for this area will draw from diverse sources-sources
including, but not limited to: classical and contemporary rhetorical
theory, composition theory, cultural studies theory, pedagogies
relating to these theories, and experiential knowledge of theorists,
practitioners, teachers, and students (whether "data" or "lore").
Individual conference papers, whole panels (three to four
speakers), poster sessions (multiple participants), and other media are
encouraged and welcome. Proposals for non-traditional types of
presentations or happenings will be considered, though technology needs
and space requirements may have to be negotiated.
Potential topics include:
- Cultural studies composition pedagogies
- Cultural rhetorics
- Popular culture in the first-year writing classroom
- Cultural practices as evidenced in rhetoric/composition
- Political rhetorics
- Rhetorics of advertising
- Othering in popular/mass culture
- Cultural Studies outside composition
- Readings of popular/mass culture texts
- Audience and popular/mass culture
- Composition in popular/mass culture
- Rhetoric in popular/mass culture
- Popular culture in popular/mass culture
.remember, this is suggestive, not inclusive.
Please send 300-word abstract by November 15, 2003 to:
By email: kapper@purdue.edu
By post: Michael Carlson Kapper
Department of English
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
All presenters must join either the Popular Culture Association or the
American Culture Association prior to attending/presenting at the
conference; details upon acceptance.
Michael Carlson Kapper, Ph.D. cand.
Rhetoric & Composition Program
Dept. of English, Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
kapper@purdue.edu
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