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David Tomkins

Listed at 10 conventions, 2013–2025, 13 listings.

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2013: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2014: speaker (1)2015: chair (1)2015: speaker (1)2017: speaker (1)2019: speaker (1)2020: chair (1)2022: speaker (1)2023: speaker (1)2024: speaker (1)2025: speaker (2)

speakerchairrespondentfacilitatorother Grey band: 2000–2003, not in the corpus.

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2013From Homework to Public Work: Locating Digital
“Civic Engagement and the Web-based College Essay”
Speakers University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2014Open to Possibilities: Institutional Identity and the Non-Tenure Track Writing ProfessorChair University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2014Open to Possibilities: Institutional Identity and the Non-Tenure Track Writing Professor
“Curriculum Design, Institutional Relevance, and the Non-Tenure Track Writing Professor”
Speakers University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2015A Risky Proposition: Reanimating the Critical Discourses of Advanced CompositionChair University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2015A Risky Proposition: Reanimating the Critical Discourses of Advanced Composition
“Risk Analysis: ‘What exactly do we mean by advanced writing, and should we fear the answer?’”
Speakers University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2017Voice Lessons: Formula, Creativity, and the Cultivation of Authorial Identity across Multiple Levels of Writing
“Writing from Without: Embracing Externalization in the Advanced Writing Classroom”
Speakers University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2019Pretending to Write: Performative Necessities in the Writing ClassroomSpeakers University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2020The Potential of Online Spaces and Digital WritingChair University of Southern California, Los Angeles → University of Southern California
2022Using “Muscular Empathy” to Reconfigure Classroom
“Seeking to Inquire: Writing Prompts and the Pitfalls of Subjective Presupposition”
Speakers University of Southern California → University of Southern California
2023Anxious Students and Uncertain Professors: Assessment
“Let’s Talk: Grading Contracts and Instructor Feedback”
Speakers University of Southern California → University of Southern California
2024Cultivating Context-Specific Approaches to Contract GradingSpeaker(s)
2025Composition’s B-side: Advanced Writing as a Site of Pedagogical ImprovisationSpeaker(s) University of Southern California → University of Southern California
2025Composition’s B-side: Advanced Writing as a Site of Pedagogical ImprovisationSpeaker(s) University of Southern California → University of Southern California

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