Presenters
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kristin Arola
Dr. Kristin Arola is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Technology as well as the Director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University. She is the author of multiple texts, including Visualizing Composition 2.0 (with Cheryl E. Ball), published in 2010 by Bedford/St. Martin's, and CrossTalk in Comp Theory (with Victor Villanueva), now in its third edition through the National Council of Teachers of English. Her most recent publication is Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment), with Anne Frances Wysocki and published by Utah State University Press.
Plenary Speaker : Professor Julie Landsman
Professor Julie Landsman taught for twenty-five years in the Minneapolis public school system. She has also recently taught at Carleton College and has been an adjunct professor at Hamline University and St. Thomas in St. Paul. Her most recent book is Growing Up White: A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Racism (Rowman and Littlefield, publishers). Landsman has been a featured speaker on White Privilege in many venues and is a frequent contributor to Educational Leadership magazine. In April of 2012, Professor Landsman gave the Keynote talk at the National Writers Project in Tulsa, OK.
Panel Presentations
The full program of all presentations is available here.