2016 Schedule
8:30am Coffee and pastries in Alden 318
9:00-9:50am
Panel 1: Designing Freshman Composition Courses and Assignments
Modertator: Claire Eder
1A: “Thinking for Its Own Sake: using exploratory research writing”
Amanda Hayes is a post-doctoral fellow in OU's English Department. Her focus is on Appalachian rhetoric and place-based pedagogy.
1B: “Using a Lens to Focus 1510 Students and Myself”
Brandon Bender is a fourth-year PhD student in Victorian Literature.
1C: “Finding personal meanings through song analysis: An ENG 1110 Handout Connecting Song Lyrics with Student Experiences”
Jon Stansell is Associate Professor of English at Belmont College. He completed his PhD in 2012 and slowly realized that despite his advisor’s intentions, a related-topic Education PhD is not equivalent to an English PhD. So he’s back to school at 41, like the bad dream you had that one time, or an awful Rodney Dangerfield movie, which is basically the same thing, and he even had his Ipad cable stolen from his cubbey, but he’s still here, so it seems like he’ll finish his Master’s in English, if not soon, then sometime in 2017. He likes snarky comments, rambling sentences (except from students), and Youtube videos, so he is fitting in just fine, thank you.
10:00-10:50am
Panel 2: Classroom Management Techniques and Tips
Moderator: Kelly Masterson
2A: “Generating Participation”
Michael Johnson is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Rhetoric and Composition.
2B: “Letting Go of the Reins: Getting Students Involved in Course Design and Management”
Claire Eder is a third year PhD student in Creative Writing (Poetry). Her creative and research interests include literary translation, creative writing pedagogy, and contemporary poetry. She has taught courses in creative writing, composition, professional communication, literature, and environmental writing.
2C: “Fear and Learning in the Classroom” Paul Martin & Ben Smith
Paul Martin is a second year Grasuate Student and Teaching Assistant in Philosophy.
Benjamin Smith is a first year Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant in Philosophy.
11:00-11:50am Dr. Mara Holt “Teaching U.S. and Transnational Feminisms with Thelma and Louise (1991) and Chaos (2001)”
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch on your own
1:00-1:50pm
Panel 3: Teaching Theory and Theory of Teaching
Moderator: Samuel Stinson
3A: “Merit of Communicative Language Teaching in ESL/EFL Contexts”
Thu Hoan Do
3B: “English for Specific Purposes”
Mohamed Amira is a first year Graduate Assistant at the Patton College of Education, in the Teachers Education - Curriculum and Instruction department.
3C: “Rethinking Quantitative Reasoning Pedagogy”
Duke Cruz hails from a small town out West called Tooele, Utah. He earned his BA in Philosophy from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a second year Master’s student at Ohio University earning his MA in the same subject. As a TA he teaches “Principles of Reasoning” for the Department of Philosophy at Ohio University. His research spans both the history of philosophy and logic.
3D: “Creating a Teaching Persona with Merlin”
Spencer Smith is a first-year MA student in Rhetoric & Composition. He received his BA in English from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University. His research interests include Composition & Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Narrative.
1:50pm Coffee and mini scones
2:00-2:50pm
Panel 4: Non-traditional writing assignments for Junior Composition
Moderator: Rachael Tanner
4A: “Creative Projects in the Composition Classroom: A Case Study from Writing About the Environment”
Jennifer Pullen is a Doctoral Candidate in Creative Writing (Fiction). Her research and teaching interests include: fiction and poetry writing, 19th century British Literature and culture, folk and fairy tales, science fiction and fantasy fiction, creative writing pedagogy, environmental writing, and gender studies.
4B: “Creating Amateur Detectives: The Case of the Mutilated Middlemarch”
Renee Benham is a Doctoral Candidate in Victorian Literature. Her research and teaching interests include the transformation of nineteenth-century nursing, adventure romance genre fiction, and Sherlock Holmes.
4C: “Tell it Slant- An abstract for Allegory Farm”
Wesley Roj is a fifth-year Doctoral Candidate in Creative Writing Nonfiction.
3:00-3:50pm
Panel 5: Using Media in the Classroom
Moderator: Amanda Hayes
5A: “MMORPGs in teaching ESL” Begum Sacak & Saeideh Hosseini
Begum Sacak is a second year PhD student in Ohio University Department of Education, specializing in Instructional Technology. Her research interests are second language learning, digital literacies and facilitative technologies for effective language instruction.
Saeideh Hosseini works as a GA in the Teacher Education Department in Patton College of Education. She is am a PhD candidate, currently coding her dissertation data. Her research interests are second language learning and gender identity.
5B: “Using Multi-modal Mind-mapping to Reformat Literacy in FYC”
Erica Lange is a Rhetoric and Composition PhD student and Graduate Teaching Associate in Ohio University's English department. Her scholarly interests include food and feminist rhetorics as well as writing program administration and composition studies.
5C: “Classroom Technologies: Getting the most out of Blackboard”
Samuel Stinson is a Doctoral Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition. He is also currently the Student Writing Center Assistant Coordinator.