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Federation Rhetoric Symposium

The Federation Rhetoric Symposium is part of an annual series “A Symposium in Rhetoric” that
has welcomed many notable speakers to North Texas since the first meeting in 1973. These
keynoters have included Patricia Bizzell, Deborah Brandt, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen
Blake Yancey, Sonja Foss, Richard Enos, Cynthia Selfe, Hugh Burns, James Kinneavy, Kenneth
Burke, Wayne Booth, Stephen Toulmin, and many others.
EGAD (English Graduates for Academic Development)
The English Graduates for Academic Development (EGAD) serves a variety of functions at Texas
A&M University-Commerce. EGAD hosts an annual conference that invites students, undergraduate
and graduate, and faculty to come together and discuss current and future issues in literature and
composition and encourages presentations analyzing texts, games, visual rhetoric, graphic novels,
comic books, and more. The conference has included presenters from Texas Women’s University,
University of Texas-Dallas, University of North Texas, University of California-Santa Cruz, Cal State-
Fullerton, St. Louis University, and others. Such a diverse gathering of professionals and students
provides our graduate students the opportunity to engage in the same intellectual activities that would
be expected of them in their future academic careers. This conference also offers EGAD student
organizers the opportunity to plan and execute a professional conference. Ultimately, EGAD affords
our graduate students a place to learn and hone the skills necessary to succeed in their professions.

Shannon Carter
Shannon Carter, Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Commerce, has published on various
aspects of text-use and production among local publics--from inmates (Community Literacy
Journal, 2008) to evangelicals (College English, 2007), from campus administrators (College
Composition and Communication, 2009) to at-risk writers (Journal of Basic Writing, 2006).
Her first book, The Way Literacy Lives (State University of New York Press, 2008), brings
these themes together to argue for more systematic attention to literacy experiences beyond
the university. In 2007, based on this approach and attention to new media's role in our
increasingly complex literate lives, Carter began working with colleagues to establish the
Converging Literacies Center (CLiC), a research center designed to study the literate lives of
local citizens and students (see Kairos, Fall 2009, and Computers and Composition Online,
Fall 2010). She is currently at work on a book-length project about citizen discourse enacting
change at local levels in the decades immediately following racial integration in southern university towns like
the one hosting the March 2011 conference. Fall 2010 A&M-C granted Carter leave to pursue this project,
which is tentatively entitled "Writing for a Change: Race, Activism, and Local Politics in a Southern, Rural
University Town."
Deborah Mutnick
Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Long Island
University-Brooklyn, has facilitated university-community projects in neighborhoods and
public schools to foster intercultural understanding, recover popular histories, and give voice
to individuals and groups whose stories have previously been excluded from the public
record. Her book Writing in an Alien World: Basic Writing and the Struggle for Equality in
Higher Education (1996) focuses on underprepared college students whose stories are
typically told by others rather than by themselves. She has published articles on basic writing
and place-based composition studies in the Journal of Basic Writing, Rhetoric Review, and
College Composition and Communication. In recognition of the crucial role of new media and the digital
humanities, Mutnick is spearheading the construction at the Brooklyn campus of Writers Wing, a suite of
technologically smart seminar and conference rooms inspired by Rutgers University-New Brunswick's Writers
House, to enable faculty, students, and community members to participate in the new literacies and the
increasingly complex mission of the humanities in the 21st century. She is currently working on a manuscript
about place-based composition studies titled Writing, Memory, and the Politics of Place (under contract with
Utah State UP) and a composition textbook inspired by the Federal Writers' Project and tentatively titled
Toward a New American Guide: Writing to Define Who We Are (under contract with Pearson Longman).

Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart's (Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Commerce) area
of specialization is grounded in English Studies, which includes literary theory, pedagogy,
and composition studies. The bulk of her work has been focused on the role of race, ethnicity,
gender, and religion in young adult literature. Narrative theory, which is based in part on the
nature of rhetoric, cultural studies, and critical race theory, serves as her theoretical
foundations. Through her articles and conference presentations, she has examined invisibility
as experienced by African American young adults, the role of white privilege, the rhetoric
and ideology embedded in religious discourse in young adult literature, and the way in which
some American authors characterize and represent adolescents and young adults from other countries. Her work
on above has appeared in prestigous journals like The Lion and the Unicorn and Children’s Literature in
Education.

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