Michael L. McGinnis

My proposal, “Performativity and Politics: ‘Coming Out’ as a Rhetorical Stance,” has been accepted for the Rhetoric Society of America’s Graduate Research Network, conducted as part of RSA’s 2010 conference in Minneapolis, MN.

In this proposed article, I seek to consider the rhetorical status of “coming out.” Although deeply embedded within GLBT discourses and politics, “coming out” remains a rhetorically flexible trope that has been adopted by a number of other assumedly “closeted” communities, perhaps most provocatively in the example of the “Conservative Coming Out Day” events that have taken place on several universities. This article would seek to understand what is at stake in the rhetorical stance of “coming out,” both to GLBT discourses and to other discourses which have appropriated it for rhetorical ends.

My presentation, “A Matter of Life and Death Panels: Carl Schmitt’s Anti-Rhetorical Politics,” has been accepted to the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, to be held in Minneapolis, MN, 28-31 May 2010. The conference theme is “Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy.”

This presentation was submitted as part of the panel “Scandalous!!! Reclaiming Controversy for Rhetorical Scholarship.” My fellow panelists are Kim Lacey, Marylou Naumoff, and Derek Risse, all of Wayne State University.

My presentation, “Invention: The Crowded House of Writing as a Social Process,” has been accepted to the 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication, to be in Louisville, KY, 17-20 March 2010. The conference theme is “The Remix.”

This presentation was submitted as part of the panel “Dont Call It a Comeback: Remixing the Canons of Rhetoric.” My fellow panelists are Wendy Duprey, Jared Grogan, Mary Karcher, and Kim Lacey, all of Wayne State University.

My presentation, “The End of the Academy: On the Institutional Crisis of the Humanities in the Corporate University,” has been accepted to the 2009 Language and Rhetoric Graduate Conference, to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25-26 September 2009. The conference theme is “Making Meaning: Language and Rhetoric in Real World Spaces.”

This presentation was submitted as part of the panel “‘What Now?’: The Rhetoric of Institutional Crisis.” My fellow panelists are Wendy Duprey and Conor Shaw-Draves, both of Wayne State University.

My presentation, “ASCII to ASCII, DOS to DOS: Notes Toward a Digital Antiquity,” has been accepted to the 2009 Computers and Writing Conference, to be held at the University of California, Davis, 18-21 June 2009.

This presentation was submitted as part of the panel “Always On and Just in Time: Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Ubiquitious and Sustainable Computing.”  My co-panelists are Jeff Pruchnic and Kim Lacey (both of Wayne State) and Antonio Ceraso (DePaul).

My presentation, “1969: Re-opening Corbett’s Fist: CCC and Social Change in the Sixties,” has been accepted to the 60th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, to be held 11-14 March 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

This presentation was submitted as part of the panel “Choragraphies of Composition: Revisiting Five Key Moments in the 60 Year History of CCCC.”  My co-panelists are Jeff Rice (U of Missouri), James Brown (U of Texas), Derek Mueller (Syracuse U), and David Grant (U of Northern Iowa).