I’m very pleased to post a Kairos review of the Pedagogy Panel that I was on this past March at the College Composition and Communication Conference in Louisville. Paul Butler (U Houston) and TR Johnson (Tulane) did a wonderful job putting the panel together, and I was very pleased to be included in what seemed like, as Olinger observes in her review, an important moment in the contemporary renaissance of interest in style within the discipline of rhetoric.
The review is a little more sparse than I would prefer, but provides an excellent account of the day, and a few links to the Prose Style Workshop I taught last fall at UT Austin.
And special thanks to Andrea Olinger of the University of Illinois UC for taking the time to write her thoughtful review.
I finished my two conference papers and board the plane shortly. For those of your stumbling upon this site, be warned. It ain’t finished yet. Things remain in a state of digital disrepair. So please keep that in your brains, and mind any bent nails you find coming out of the floor. If you’ll be at the conference, call, text or email so that we can meet up.
By a twisting path I was directed this morning to this fascinating blog post about Edward Abbey living in Cullowhee, which I hadn’t known about. Apparently he was unhappy. I love a good curmudgeon, and for my money, The Fool’s Progress is one of the best American novels ever written, at least top three.
Also, special congratulations to Viz. and the Visual Rhetoric Workgroup in UT Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL), which was named in a tie with ProfHacker for the Kairos John Lovas memorial Weblog Award. John Jones, Tim Turner, Vessela Valiavitcharska and I founded Viz. four years ago. Congrats Viz.!
Here’s a picture of a huge slug I found in the Hoh Valley on the Olympic Peninsula after the RSA conference in Seattle two years ago. The place was littered with ‘em. May my discoveries in Minneapolis be as exciting.
