Michael L. McGinnis

RSA 2010: Graduate Research Network

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:29:43 +0000

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.

Rhetoric Society 2010

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:25:29 +0000

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.

CCCC 2010

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:19:58 +0000

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.

Language and Rhetoric Conference

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:06:48 +0000

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.

Cornell School of Criticism and Theory

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:11:19 +0000

The Wayne State Department of English has selected me as one of two sponsored participants in the Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory for Summer 2009. My participation in the SCT is made possible through the generous sponsorship of the department; my thanks to the English Department’s graduate committee for selecting me as one of the two students to receive this sponsorship.

I have been assigned to the seminar of Simon During (Prof. of English, Johns Hopkins University), titled “Conservatism, Religion, History.” More information about this seminar and the Cornell School is available here.

Jasina Award

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:04:44 +0000

I have been awarded one of three 2009-10 Thomas R. Jasina Endowed Scholarships in English by the Wayne State Department of English. The award was presented to me by Dr. Kenneth Jackson, Director of Graduate Studies in English, at the department’s annual awards ceremony on 24 April 2009. My thanks to the faculty and administration of the department for their recognition, and my congratulations to all my fellow award winners.

Travel Funding Award

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:42:23 +0000

I have been awarded a Graduate Travel Funding Award by the Wayne State Department of English. The award was granted for my presentation at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, CA.

Master of Arts

admin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:30:36 +0000

The completion of the requirements for my Master of Arts degree (focus in composition and rhetoric) has been officially recognized by Wayne State University. My M.A. degree was issued and posted on 18 December, 2008. My Master’s essay is titled “‘So You Say You Want a Revolution?’ or, Re-Opening Corbett’s Fist;” my readers were Professors Richard Marback and Jeff Pruchnic. My thanks to Professors Marback and Pruchnic for their guidance and feedback throughout the M.A. process, and to Professor Jeff Rice for his comments on an earlier draft of the project.

Computers & Writing 2009

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:48:47 +0000

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).

CCCC 2009

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:58:32 +0000

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).