Program for 2017 SUNY C0W Conference
Friday, September 8
Registration and Cocktail Hour
- 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. – Whitney Atrium
Dinner and Dessert
- 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Whitney Atrium
Welcome to SUNY OCC – President Casey Crabill
- 6:30 – 6:45 p.m. – Whitney Atrium
Welcome to the Conference – Mike Murphy
- 6:45 – 7:00 p.m. – Whitney Atrium
Friday Keynote Address – Four Plays – Peter Moller, Len Fonte, Kathy Kramer, and Donna Stuccio
- 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. – Whitney Atrium
Q & A to Playwrights
- 8:15 – 8:40 p.m. – Whitney Atrium
Saturday, September 9
Open Microphone – Mark Muhammad
- 7:45 – 8:30 – Whitney Atrium (sign in begins at 7:20)
Welcome – Dean Katharine Rumrill-Teece
- 8:00 – 8:05 – Whitney Atrium
SUNY CoW Board Meeting
- 10:30-11:15 – Whitney 243
A Sessions
- 8:30-9:45
Diversity
Location: Whitney 116 Session Chair: Theresa Mohamed
- Sarah Stanford, “Emergent Identities of Diverse Students: An Exploration of Sociocultural Awareness and Voice in Bhutanese-Nepali Students”
- Carolyn Keller, “Starting the Conversation: Personal Narrative as Pedagogical Practice”
- Shyam Sharma, “Engagement as Internalization: Strategies for the Writing Classroom”
- Soni Adhikari, “Engaging Diverse Writers in College Classrooms”
Creative Writing
Location: Whitney 124 Session Chair: Mike O’Connor
- Annet O’Mara, “Bless Me: Confessional Writing for Academic Audiences”
- Meaghan Bodemer, “The Importance of Keeping a Journal”
- Joseph Maria, “Integrating Non-fiction Creative Writing Principles and Assignments into Composition to Increase First Year Composition Student Engagement and Writing Skills”
Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 122 Session Chair: Mike Murphy
- Vittoria Rubino, “Towards a Design-Oriented Pedagogy in First-Year Writing”
- Dashielle Horn, “The Role of Empathy in Teaching and Tutoring LD Students”
- Kali A. Mobley Finn, “Lifting the Veil: Introducing First-Year Writers to Transfer, Both in Theory and in Student Research”
Panel Discussion
Location: Whitney 216 Session Chair: Michelle Malinovsky
- Missy Watson, Sofia Binioris, Brittany Zayas, “The Pains and Promises of Confronting Standard Language Ideology”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 101 Session Chair: Christian Heisler
- Whitney Gregg-Harrison, Stella Wang, Suzanne Woodring, “Reflective Pedagogy in College Composition: Creating Spaces for Risk-Taking, Experimentation, and Productive Failure”
Technology
Location: Whitney 222 Session Chair: Tom Friedrich
- Douglas Powell, “To Kill or Not to Kill a Hinox: Using Multi-Modal Literacies to Encourage Learning Transfer in the FYC Classroom”
B Sessions
- 10:00-11:15
Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 116 Session Chair: Justin Pritchard
- Eonjoo Park, “Cultural Analysis as a Path for Successful Research Paper Writing”
- Erin Gonzalez, “Emphasis in Student Focused Material Leading to Cohesiveness in the Classroom”
- Gerardo T. Cummings, “Crafting a Fair and Equitable Spanish Composition Topic: What the AP Spanish Literature and Culture Reading Has Taught Me”
- Jacob Richter, “Cognitive Seeds: The Role of Creative Thinking in First-Year Writing”
Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 222 Session Chair: Christian Heisler
- Christian Sisack, “You Will Not Fail This Class”
- Lisa Neville, “The Practice of Inquiry: Awareness-based Approach to Teaching Writing and Critical Thinking”
- Helaine Lubar, “Non-Cognitive Issues: An Expanded Perspective”
Creative Writing Workshop
Location: Whitney 216 Session Chair: Steve Pierson
- Angela Braselmann, “The Multi-Genre Paper: Creative Writing as a Way of Knowing”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 101 Session Chair: Denise Valdes
- Matthew Herzog, Laura McGough, Daniel Schweitzer, “Composing in a General Education Capstone: Interrogating Successful Practices for an Integrative Learning Curriculum”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 220 Session Chair: Mike Podolny
- Craig Hancock, Alifair Skebe, Debbie Morrison, “Knowledge about language in a writing curriculum”
Service Learning
Location: Whitney 124 Session Chair: Michelle Malinovsky
- Malkiel Choseed, Donna Stuccio, “The Play’s The Thing: Finding your inner playwright through Shakespeare – Drama and Creative Writing Behind Bars”
C Sessions
- 11:30-12:45
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 101 Session Chair: Shyam Sharma
- Amanda Giracca, Sarah Giragosian, Bethany Aery Clerico, Marcie Newton, “The Value of Student Writing: Re-Conceiving the Writing Contest as Collaborative Inquiry Among Faculty and Students in a First Year Writing Program”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 122 Session Chair: Theresa Mohamed
- Jessica Slentz, Eric Machan Howd, Jim Stafford, “Adjusting to Audiences: Emotionally, Cognitively, Culturally”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 216 Session Chair: Christian Heisler
- Laura J. Davies, Kevin Rutherford, Heather Bartlett, Tim Emerson, Mario Hernandez, Jeff Jackson “Making Changes: Revising a First-Year Writing Curriculum within a Teaching Community”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 222 Session Chair: Mike Podolny
- Maureen Kravec, Heidi Nightengale, Yvonne Murphy, Kathy Hairston, “Rebuild or Reinvention: Writing and Relevance for Adult Students”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 124 Session Chair: Steve Pierson
- Kellie Deys, James Deys, Brianna Doherty, “Defamiliarizing the Familiar: Challenging Culture and Revaluing Student Experience”
Lunch and Saturday Keynote Address: Dr. Brian Fallon
- 1:00-2:15
D Sessions
- 2:30-3:45
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 220 Session Chair: Shyam Sharma
- Jessica Femiani, Wendy Stewart, “Initiating the Novice Scholar: Beyond the ‘A’”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 116 Session Chair: Christian Heisler
- Alex Hanson, Andre Habet, Noah Wilson, “What Counts as Success in Teaching College Composition? Rethinking Pedagogy”
Panel Discussion – Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 124 Session Chair: Denise Valdes
- Christine Kitano, Thomas Girshin, Tyrell Stewart-Harris, “Assessing Success in the Writing Classroom”
Panel Discussion – Diversity
Location: Whitney 101 Session Chair: Christine Braunberger
- Vani Kannan, Coreen Mason, Nuhami Mandefro, “Multi-Genre Composition and Social Justice: Contesting Colorism in an Era of Colorblind Racism”
Panel Discussion – Diversity
Location: Whitney 122 Session Chair: Christian Sisack
- Tom Friedrich, Rachel Day, Kaitlyn Mulhollem, “The Role of DSP in Building a Democratic Writing Assessment Ecology”
E Sessions
- 4:00-5:15
Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 216 Session Chair: Denise Valdes
- Josh Keiner, “Using Student-Generated Assignments to Bolster Engagement”
- Donald Jones, “Our Teaching, Our Discipline: Expressivism in the 21st Century”
- Noel Holton Brathwaite, “Reflexive Reading in the Writing Classroom”
Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 220 Session Chair: Theresa Mohamed
- Harry Tuttle, “One essay with nine structured peer reviews, starting with the Pre-Writing Stage”
- Michael Avery, “Reading, Creative Journaling, and Composition Teaching”
- Sarah Blazer, Katelyn Burton Prager, “Point-of-Interest & Point-of-Need Faculty Development: Raising the Bar and Meeting Diverse Needs”
- Nina Batt, “Reteaching the ABC’s: Propaganda Analysis as a Solution to Political Polarization in the College Classroom”
Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 222 Session Chair: Laine Lubar
- Mary Jo Morgan, “Authentic Audiences in the First-Year Composition Classroom”
- Karleanne Matthews, “Creating a Writing-Center Dynamic in the Composition Classroom”
- Sarah V. Seeley, ““I’m not grading for you. I’m grading for the system”: Iconized grading rubrics and the sociolinguistics of collaborative assessment. “
- Laura Jones, “Exploring professional identity and communication skills in the writing classroom”
Pedagogy
Location: Whitney 116 Session Chair: Gerardo Cummings
- Aviva Taubenfeld, Shinelle Espaillat, “Skills, Confidence, and Community: College Writing Co-requisites for EOP Students”
Roundtable Discussion
Location: Whitney 214 Session Chair: Annet O’Mara
Maria I. Ciprani, “College Composition as an Interdisciplinary Endeavor:Literacy, Numeracy and Critical Thinking”
SUNY Council on Writing 