CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Friday
2:15 — 3:30 Session C.7
New Cyber Teachers:
Training and Working Issues
RB 355
Dickie Selfe, moderator
Teena Carnegie
Not So Impossible: Surviving the First Year on the Tenure Track
I present an overview of some of the additional challenges new faculty
in computers and writing may face as they settle into their job. I also
suggest how new faculty can make the most of being “new” to gather
information needed to negotiate department politics, understand the
requirements of the tenure system, gain the resources they need, and
develop research material.
Michael Salvo
First Year Out: Setting Up a Lab and Creating a “Research Profile”
As a graduate student who has gone through the ‘90s as a C&W
graduate student and is now in a first tenure-track job, the speaker
reflects on other groundbreakers’ tenure and technology issues and
reports on the “state of the field.” How have issues of tenure and teaching
changed, or not What does the field look like from the perspective
of the job search How much (and how little) have things changed for
first-year specialists who are teaching writing with technology
Christopher Carter
Virtual Contingencies: Digitizing Part-Time Labor Organization
I argue that the Internet, while providing a valuable source of
support for the unionization of part-time writing teachers, also
threatens in subtle yet potent ways the materiality of their resistance.
The California Part-Time Faculty Association site, while an important
supplement to and conceptual engine for regular organization
gatherings, has not yet allowed the psychic comfort of virtual
solidarity to replace fully-embodied activism. Members of the
organization must continually guard against such a replacement.
48 Computers & Writing 2001