Calendar
WEEK 1
Thu. 1/19
Due:
“Our Story Begins Here: Constellating Cultural Rhetorics” by Powell et al. Online article.
“What is Settler Colonialism?” by Maya Mikdashi. 2012. Online article.
“Creating Our Paths Together: A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Memoir” by Alexandra Hidalgo. 2017. 25 minutes.
“Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Methodology” by Andrea Riley-Mukavetz. 2014. 109-125.
In class:
Introductions
Discuss syllabus
Sign up for Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation, Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation, Scholar Biography Presentation, and Leading Our Class Discussion.
Discuss readings
Due:
“Our Story Begins Here: Constellating Cultural Rhetorics” by Powell et al. Online article.
“What is Settler Colonialism?” by Maya Mikdashi. 2012. Online article.
“Creating Our Paths Together: A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Memoir” by Alexandra Hidalgo. 2017. 25 minutes.
“Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Methodology” by Andrea Riley-Mukavetz. 2014. 109-125.
In class:
Introductions
Discuss syllabus
Sign up for Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation, Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation, Scholar Biography Presentation, and Leading Our Class Discussion.
Discuss readings
WEEK 2
Tue. 1/26
Due:
Decolonial Skillshares: Indigenous Rhetorics as Radical Practice by Qwo-Li Driskill. 2015. 57-78.
“The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality” by Hayden White. 1980. 5-27.
“Oratory on Oratory: Seeing Ourselves Through Stories Versus Western Models” by Lee Maracle. 2007. 55-70.
“Cultural Identity and Diaspora” by Stuart Hall. 1990. 222-237.
“The Race for Theory” by Barbara Christian. 1987. 51-63.
In class:
Discuss readings
Due:
Decolonial Skillshares: Indigenous Rhetorics as Radical Practice by Qwo-Li Driskill. 2015. 57-78.
“The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality” by Hayden White. 1980. 5-27.
“Oratory on Oratory: Seeing Ourselves Through Stories Versus Western Models” by Lee Maracle. 2007. 55-70.
“Cultural Identity and Diaspora” by Stuart Hall. 1990. 222-237.
“The Race for Theory” by Barbara Christian. 1987. 51-63.
In class:
Discuss readings
WEEK 3
Tue. 2/2
Due:
The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King. 2003.
In class:
Discuss readings
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Due:
The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King. 2003.
In class:
Discuss readings
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
WEEK 4
Tue. 2/9
Due:
Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson. 2008.
In class:
Discuss readings
Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation Part 1
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Due:
Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson. 2008.
In class:
Discuss readings
Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation Part 1
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
WEEK 5
Tue. 2/16
Due:
Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. Edited by Robin M. Boylorn and Mark P. Orbe, eds. 2013.
In class:
Discuss readings
Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation Part 2
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
Due:
Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. Edited by Robin M. Boylorn and Mark P. Orbe, eds. 2013.
In class:
Discuss readings
Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation Part 2
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
WEEK 6
Tue. 2/23
Due:
Black Skin/White Masks by Frantz Fanon. 1952.
In class:
Discuss readings
Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation Part 3
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Due:
Black Skin/White Masks by Frantz Fanon. 1952.
In class:
Discuss readings
Initial Thoughts on Final Essay Presentation Part 3
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
WEEK 7
Tue. 3/2: No Class because of MSU Break Days
WEEK 8
Tue. 3/9
Due:
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. 1976.
In class:
Discuss readings
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Due:
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. 1976.
In class:
Discuss readings
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
WEEK 9
Tue. 3/16
Due:
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. 1979.
In class:
Discuss readings
Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation Part 1
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Due:
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. 1979.
In class:
Discuss readings
Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation Part 1
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
WEEK 10
Tue. 3/23
Due:
Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing by Stacey Waite. 2017.
In class:
Discuss readings
Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation Part 2
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Due:
Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing by Stacey Waite. 2017.
In class:
Discuss readings
Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation Part 2
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
WEEK 11
Tue. 3/30
Due:
“The Olive Project” by Erin Anderson. 2011. Online Text.
“Butch Rhetoric: Queer Masculinity in Rhetoric and Composition” by Casey Miles. 2015. 9 minutes.
“A Tale of Two Soundscapes: The Story of My Listening Body” by Steph Ceraso. 2015. 10 minutes.
“Motherhood on the Screen: An Exploration of Wounds Opened and Closed Through Home Video” by Alexandra Hidalgo. 2018. 24 minutes.
In class:
Discuss readings
Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation Part 3
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
Due:
“The Olive Project” by Erin Anderson. 2011. Online Text.
“Butch Rhetoric: Queer Masculinity in Rhetoric and Composition” by Casey Miles. 2015. 9 minutes.
“A Tale of Two Soundscapes: The Story of My Listening Body” by Steph Ceraso. 2015. 10 minutes.
“Motherhood on the Screen: An Exploration of Wounds Opened and Closed Through Home Video” by Alexandra Hidalgo. 2018. 24 minutes.
In class:
Discuss readings
Final Essay Ideas Reshaped Presentation Part 3
Scholar Biography Presentation (1)
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
WEEK 12
Tue. 4/6
Due:
“Cultural Rhetorics Special Issue” on Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Edited by Phil Bratta and Malea Powell.
Scholar Biography Presentation (2)
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
In class:
Discuss readings
Due:
“Cultural Rhetorics Special Issue” on Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Edited by Phil Bratta and Malea Powell.
Scholar Biography Presentation (2)
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
In class:
Discuss readings
WEEK 13
Tue. 4/13
Due:
“Issue 1” of constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space. Edited by Malea Powell and Alexandra Hidalgo.
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
In class:
Discuss readings
Scholar Biography Presentation (2)
Due:
“Issue 1” of constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space. Edited by Malea Powell and Alexandra Hidalgo.
Leading Our Class Discussion (3 leaders)
In class:
Discuss readings
Scholar Biography Presentation (2)
WEEK 14
Tue. 4/20
Due:
“Issue 2” of constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space. Edited by Alexandra Hidalgo.
In class:
Discuss readings
Due:
“Issue 2” of constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space. Edited by Alexandra Hidalgo.
In class:
Discuss readings