Session Details

Friday, 29 December

451. Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths, Rhetorical Histories, and the Language Arts

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 203-A, Convention Center

Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee

Presiding: Dale Marie Bauer, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

1. “Situating Episteme, Theorizing Black Rhetoric: Steven Mailloux’s Disciplinary Identities,” Vorris Nunley, Univ. of California, Riverside

2. “So What If It’s Practical? Rhetorical Studies and the Disciplining of Our ‘Real World’ Identities,” Alisse Portnoy, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Rhetoric and Poetics,” Robert Scholes, Brown Univ.

Respondent: Steven Mailloux, Univ. of California, Irvine

For copies of abstracts, visit www-personal.umich.edu/~alisse/MLA2006/index.html after 30 Nov.

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