CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

2:15 — 3:30 Session C.2
Fringe Access or Mainstream:
On Queer Agendas and Inequities in the System
RB 106
Samantha Blackmon, moderator
Lisa Rashley
Dealing with Inequities: When Students in the Same Class Have
Different Access
I discuss the political, pedagogical, and personal issues involved in
teaching an Internet-based class with the knowledge that students
have unequal access on multiple levels. I hope to raise awareness of
this crucial issue as online distance education becomes more prevalent,
to offer some solutions, and to pose a series of questions to consider for
the future of the growing field of online learning and teaching.
Angela Crow
Publishing on Queer Agendas: Fears, Hopes, Desired Responses
This is an autobiographical essay, one that explores my migrations —
both literal, moving from the Midwest to the South, and figurative,
moving increasingly “out” in my publications. Queer studies have
influenced humanities departments, but I wonder, in this last part of
the essay, about advocacy strategies that address local concerns of
queer computers and writing participants.
Margaret Morrison
cancelled
Hypertextuality’s Queer Choreography
I have long sought new ways to think about queerness — in the hope
that a multitude of genders and identifications, bodies written and read
in a variety of ways, in a variety of orders, is assumed, that queerness
proliferates and oscillates back and forth across all the divides that
create “perversions.” By what means may hypertexts be engaging our
thinking about queerness in new ways Partly by citing/siting/sighting
“queer hypertexts,” I focus on this inquiry.
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