Each year at CCCC, I begin planning by creating a menu of sessions to attend based on one keyword search: food. Typically, I find one or two food-related sessions offering insights into the ways the field integrates food into teaching, service-learning, activism, and/or scholarship, and I supplement with others on multimodality and digital rhetoric alongside trips to local restaurants to create a full conference experience. My menu this year, however, included at least one food-related activity, panel, or roundtable each day. Among the sessions was D.6. Food Studies in Rhetoric and Writing: Taking Stock of Our Next Steps. From the…
Author: Ashley M. Beardsley
Ashley M. Beardsley
Ashley is an Assistant Professor of English & Communication and Director of the Writing & Multiliteracy Center at UMass Dartmouth. She studies how people use food to build online communities that move to make change in the physical world.
Presenters: Elizabeth Chamberlain, James Ottoson, Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo, Teresa (Reese) Davis During “Multimodal Composing Practices,” two questions about multimodal composing practices remained central: What prevents instructors and graduate students from assigning and producing multimodal compositions? And how should multimodal compositions be assessed? Elizabeth Chamberlain and James Ottoson—“Professors Who Just a Few Months Ago Seemed All-Knowing”: Digital and Multimodal Preparedness among Faculty and Graduate Students in the COVID-19 Era Overview As the title of this presentation might suggest, Chamberlain and Ottoson considered the abrupt move to online instruction and how it impacted faculty and students as they navigated the digital classroom…