Creating Expansive Approaches to the Teaching of Writing in a Southern California Border Region

FAIN: AC-284632-22

San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, CA 92182-1931)
Consuelo Salas (Project Director: May 2021 to present)
Cali Linfor (Co Project Director: December 2021 to present)
Karen Koss (Co Project Director: December 2021 to present)

Faculty intellectual enrichment opportunities and development of teaching resources that will facilitate development of writing course curriculum that centers a global rhetorics approach.

Creating Expansive Approaches to the Teaching of Writing in a Southern California Border Region is a three-year faculty intellectual enrichment, teaching resources, and curriculum initiative within the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies (RWS) at San Diego State University. The core humanities theme this project will address is exploring the exclusionary practices within and throughout our teaching of writing when we privilege primarily Western forms of rhetoric. The intellectual enrichment opportunities and curricular resources created from these initiatives, and the insights gained from these activities will then be used to create an expanded model of a first-year and upper division writing course curriculum that centers a global rhetorics approach. This grant would assist RWS enhance humanities teaching and learning, specifically in required undergraduate writing courses by expanding our rhetorical instruction to account for the varied and global rhetorical practices.

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An Affinity for Spiky Things: Making Indigenous Space in Higher Education (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: An Affinity for Spiky Things: Making Indigenous Space in Higher Education
Abstract: Not available
Author: Andrea Riley Mukavetz
Date: 9/15/2022
Location: Via Zoom

Unsettling the Settled to (Re)Imagine and (Re)Weave Futures Otherwise (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Unsettling the Settled to (Re)Imagine and (Re)Weave Futures Otherwise
Abstract: This talk develops a rhetorical, ecological, and decolonial framework, perspective and lens and brings a critique to bear on "settler" as a system of Ideas, images, and ends. It situates settler archives both as a prism by which to see organizations and systems of power (e.g., settler colonialism, coloniality, and/or modernity/coloniality) and as a powerful medium of and for decolonial literacies, rhetorics, and projects.
Author: Rome Garcia
Date: 11/17/2022
Location: Via Zoom

Horror in the Borderlands: Nahua Epistemologies & Storytelling Practices in the Shadows of Femicide (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Horror in the Borderlands: Nahua Epistemologies & Storytelling Practices in the Shadows of Femicide
Abstract: Not available.
Author: Ayde Enriquez-Loya
Date: 3/10/2023
Location: Via Zoom

Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. April Baker-Bell will discuss how anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy get normalized in teacher attitudes, curriculum and instruction, pedagogical approaches, disciplinary discourses, and research, and she will discuss the impact these decisions have on Black students’ language education and their linguistic, racial, and intellectual identities. Dr. Baker-Bell will introduce a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically places Black Language at the center to critically interrogate white linguistic hegemony and anti-Black linguistic racism.
Author: April Baker-Bell
Date: 3/17/2022
Location: Via Zoom

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