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Jean Bessette

Listed at 9 conventions, 2010–2026, 9 listings.

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

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2010: speaker (1)2012: speaker (1)2013: speaker (1)2014: speaker (1)2015: speaker (1)2017: speaker (1)2023: speaker (1)2025: speaker (1)2026: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2010Rethinking Graduate Education: Recognizing and Resisting the Managed University
“Composition Historiography and Disciplinarity in the Managed University”
Speakers University of Pittsburgh, PA → University of Pittsburgh
2012Writing History in the Digital Age: New Gateways for Feminist Historiography
“Shaping the ‘Vast, Queer Past’: Rhetoric and Technology in the Gateway between Archive and Public”
Speakers University of Pittsburgh, PA → University of Pittsburgh
2013Teaching Archives of Discomfort: Unsettling Cultural
“Teaching Taboo Archives”
Speakers University of Pittsburgh, PA → University of Pittsburgh
2014Queer, Slut, and Straight Rhetoric: Opening Up Gendered
“‘Straight’ Feminism vs. the Lavender Herring: Exploring Rhetorical Constructions of Heteronormativity”
Speakers University of Vermont, Burlington → University of Vermont
2015Innovative Methodologies for Unusual Archival Projects
“When the Archive Is Rhetoric, How Do We Read It?”
Speakers University of Vermont, Burlington → University of Vermont
2017Framing Rhetorical Failure, Cultivating Feminist Engagement
“Statistically Queer: Rhetorical Failure in Early Twentieth-Century Studies of Sexuality”
Speakers University of Vermont → University of Vermont
2023What We Know / What We Teach: On the Permeability of Our Professional Pursuits
“Teaching in the Shadow of a Book”
Speakers University of Vermont → University of Vermont
2025The B-side of Graduate Education
“Reimagining the Graduate Pedagogy Seminar”
Speaker(s) University of Vermont → University of Vermont
2026Modalities of Memory: Rhetorics of the Queer ArchivePresenter University of Vermont → University of Vermont

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