ASLE-CCCC Conference Archives
This collection of archives includes titles of presentations given at past ASLE-CCCC SIG meetings at previous CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) meetings.
ASLE Special Interest Group Meeting at the CCCC Convention in San Francisco, CA, 2005
"The Future of Eco-composition"
In this meeting if the special interest group for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, we will explore several important issues affecting the future of ecocomposition. During our meeting, we will split up into four groups, and each group will conduct a 1-hour session consisting of 3 to 4 brief presentations followed by discussion.
The four group topics will be:
"The Future of Eco-Composition and Its Relationship to English Studies"
Greg Jacob: "Ecocomposition--Seeking Epistemological Legitimacy,"
Anthony Lioi: "You're a What? Undoing the Invisibility of Ecocriticism with the Ubiquity of Composition,"
Christopher Keller: "The Rise of Place-Based Composition Studies and the (Uncertain) Future of Ecocomposition,"
Randall Roorda: "Ecological English: Mending (Amending, Amen-ing) the Profession through Grass Roots"
"The Challenges of Eco-Compostion in a Conservative Political Climate"
Karen Powers-Stubbs: "Climate Changes: Ecocomposition and the Politics of Surveillance"
Amy Clary: "Conservative Climates: Eco-comp in Cajun Country"
Kaye Adkins: "When Environment Isn't in the Course Title"
Sid Dobrin: "It's not Easy Being a Green WPA"
"Visual Media and Eco-Awareness in Composition Courses"
Jody Swilky and Dan Mahala: "Getting Local: The Power Geometry of Place in Composition"
Jeri Pollock: "Eco-Discourse and the Media"
Dawnelle Jager: "Multi-media and Multi-genre Environmental Research Anthology"
"Interdisciplinary and Community Connections"
Elizabeth Latosi-Sawin: "Appraising Environmental and Human Values"
Christian Weisser: "Writing as Ecology: Exploring the Environment(s) of Discourse"
Deborah Adelman: "The Local as Gateway to the Global: Composition and Community-Building"
Arlene Plevin: "Ecocomposition and Ethics: Writing for a World That Matters"
ASLE Special Interest Group Meeting at the CCCC Convention in San Antonio, TX, March 26th, 2004
"Environment, Advocacy, and the Teaching of Writing"
Chair: Karla Armbruster, Webster University
Deborah Adelman, College of DuPage
"Writing for Sustainability, Service Learning, and a Community Garden"
Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State College
"Writing the Academic Environment"
Karla Armbruster, Webster University, St. Louis
"The Ethics of Advocacy in the Classroom"
Terrell Dixon, University of Houston
"Making Urban Nature Matter: Ecocomposition in the City"
Sidney I. Dobrin, University of Florida
"Beyond Green Matter: Ecocomposition, Advocacy, and Student Activism"
Andrea W. Herrmann, Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock
"Respecting our Earth in a Literary Nonfiction Writing Course"
Anthony Lioi, Rutgers University
"The Student as Environmental Advocate and Critic: Using the Essay
to Speak to a Public Audience"
Jeri Pollock, Moorpark College
"Eco-Comp: Why we do what we do and how we do it"
Randall Roorda, University of Kentucky
"Turning the Titanic in Harbor: Place-Based Pedagogy in a Big-School Writing Program"
Kandi Tayebi, Sam Houston State University
"From Deep East Texas to the Middle East: Exploring the Ecology of Place"
ASLE Special Interest Group Meeting at the CCCC Convention in New York, NY, March 21st, 2003
"Practicing Ecocomposition"
Chair: Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State College
Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State College
"Guiding Students through Silent Spring"
Jeri Pollock, Pepperdine University
"When Seeing Can Become Believing: A Film-Based Ecocomposition Course "
Willis L. Loy, St. Louis Community College at Meramec
"Feeling Around in the Green: An Old-Time Comp Teacher's Search for New Pastures"
Mark Long, Keene State College
"Developing a Sense of Where You Are: The Place of Writing in Ecocomposition"
Karla Armbruster, Webster University
"Place-Based Writing and Freshman Composition"
ASLE Special Interest Group Meeting at the CCCC Convention in Chicago, IL March 22nd, 2002
"Ecocomposition (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment)"
Chair: Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State College
Andrew Moss, Cal Poly, Pomona
"Discourses of the Sacred"
Jeri Pollock, Pepperdine University
"Greening the Canon in a Literature-based Composition Course"
Karen Powers-Stubbs, Ohio State University, Mansfield
"Ecocomposition and the Interdisciplinarity"
Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State College
"The Organic Nature of Writing"
Elizabeth Latosi Sawin, Missouri Western State College
"Writing the Great Plains: An Outdoor Semester"
Scott Lankford, Foothill College, CA
"Tahoe Blues: The Literary Landscape of Lake Tahoe"
ASLE Special Interest Group Meeting at the CCCC Convention in Denver, CO, March 16th, 2001
"ASLE-CCC SIG"
Chair: Kaye Adkins, Missouri Western State College
Sidney Dobrin, University of Florida, Gainsville
"Writing Ecocomposition: Publishing Opportunities in Ecocomposition"
Jeri Pollock, Pepperdine University
"My Place in the Consumer Stream: A Sequenced Writing Project . . ."
Randall Roorda, University of Kentucky, Louisville
"Essaying Toward Ecoliteracy"
Mark Long, Keene State College
"Seeing, Writing, and the Invention of Experience"
Arlene Plevin, University of Washington, Seattle
"Addressing Anthropocentrism in the Comp Classroom"