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Heather Fester

Listed at 8 conventions, 2004–2027, 10 listings.

changes of institution This name appears at several institutions in sequence and is read as one person changing jobs.

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2004: speaker (1)2005: speaker (1)2008: speaker (1)2010: speaker (1)2020: facilitator (1)2023: speaker (1)2026: chair (1)2026: speaker (1)2027: speaker (2)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2004Through the Looking Glass: 19th-Century Changes In Composition Theory and Praxis
“A Looking Glass for the Mind: Illustrations as Reflections of the Child in 19th-Century American Elementary Textbooks”
Presenters Bowling Green State University, OH → Bowling Green State University
2005Panning for Gold: Access Doesn’t Always Equal Success
“Testing the Gold in the Fire: Student Resistance in Developmental Writing Contexts”
Presenters Bowling Green State University, OH → Bowling Green State University
2008Scholarship Of Engagement: A Changing Reality For Composition and Rhetoric?
“Scholarship of Engagement and the Field of Composition and Rhetoric”
Speakers Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO → Lincoln University
2010Bringing WAC Back: From Suspended Animation to Revitalization
“Using Dynamic Criteria Mapping and Inquiry-Based Reading to Reinvigorate WAC”
Speakers Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO → Lincoln University
2020Using Berthoff’s “Forming” Approach to Writing for Its Radically Liberatory Ends
“Perceiving and Observing: Survival Skills for the Wilderness Online “ Approaches to Learning and Learners”
Facilitators University of Colorado, Colorado Springs → University of Colorado Colorado Springs
2023Approaches to Genre and Professional Writing
“Cultivating Wild Hope: Rhetorical Risk and Flexibility as Outcomes in an Advanced Rhetoric and Writing Course”
Speakers Colorado School of Mines → Colorado School of Mines
2026Writing Programs Speak: The Challenges and Rewards of Essayistic PedagogyPresenter Colorado School of Mines → Colorado School of Mines
2026Food for Thoughts (and Essays): Creative Nonfiction Standing Group Annual Business MeetingStanding Group or Caucus Chair Colorado School of Mines → Colorado School of Mines
2027Challenging the Limits of Imaginability for STEM Students with Poetry and StorytellingPresenter Colorado School of Mines → Colorado School of Mines
2027Design Creative Nonfiction Writing Exercises for the Future—A Workshop by the Creative Nonfiction Writing Standing GroupPresenter Colorado School of Mines → Colorado School of Mines

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