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Jenny Spinner

Listed at 22 conventions, 1999–2027, 43 listings.

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Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 1999: speaker (1)2005: chair (1)2005: speaker (1)2006: chair (1)2006: speaker (2)2007: chair (1)2008: chair (1)2008: speaker (1)2009: chair (1)2010: chair (1)2011: chair (1)2011: speaker (1)2012: chair (1)2012: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2015: chair (2)2015: speaker (2)2016: speaker (2)2017: speaker (2)2019: facilitator (1)2019: speaker (1)2020: facilitator (1)2020: speaker (2)2021: facilitator (1)2021: speaker (1)2022: facilitator (2)2023: facilitator (1)2023: speaker (1)2024: speaker (2)2025: speaker (3)2026: chair (1)2027: speaker (2)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
1999Visible Invisibility: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Essays in American Colleges, 1949–
“Making the Invisible Visible: An Essayist Teaches the Essay”
Presenters University of Connecticut, Storrs → University of Connecticut
2005Creative Nonfiction Assignments: Special Interest Group in Creative NonfictionChair Marymount University, Arlington, VA → Marymount University
2005Creative Nonfiction Assignments: Special Interest Group in Creative Nonfiction
“Telling It Like It Is”
Presenters Marymount University, Arlington, VA → Marymount University
2006Creative Nonfiction Special Interest Group: Pedagogical FramesChairs St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2006Creative Nonfiction Special Interest Group: Pedagogical Frames
“Ethics”
Speakers St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2006The Un-Common Reader: Women Essayists and the Canon
“Shouts and Murmurs from the Margins: A History of Women Essayists”
Speakers St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2007Evaluating Creative NonfictionChair St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2008Ethical Challenges in Reading, Writing, Teaching Creative
“Failure and Betrayal: Accountability in Creative Nonfiction”
Speakers Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2008Teaching Creative Nonfiction Special Interest GroupCo-Chairs St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2009Live Wires: Creative Nonfiction and Technology–Cre-ative Nonfiction SIGCo-Chair Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2010The Right Mix: Assignment Sequences in CNF Workshops and Composition Classrooms—Creative Nonfiction SIGChairs St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2011Click Here to Connect: Teaching Civic Engagement in Digital Environments
“‘Can’t We All Just Get Along?’: Civil Discourse on the Web and in the Classroom”
Speakers Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2011The Lyric Essay: Reading, Writing, and Teaching the “Beautiful Wild Child” of Creative NonfictionCo-Chairs Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2012Favorite Passages: Go-To Creative NonfictionCo-Chairs Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2012Writing Teachers Writing: Deepening Our Passion for Our Own Writing
“Snapshots”
Speakers St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2014Creative Nonfiction Special Interest Group: Opening to Each Other: Mentoring and Creative NonfictionCo-Chairs Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2015Student Blogging as a Real-World Enterprise: The Risks and Rewards of Writing beyond the Classroom
“The Cow, The Free Milk, and Other Conundrums in Personal Blogging”
Speakers St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2015Creative Nonfiction Special Interest Group/StandingCo-Chairs Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2015Writing and Teaching Creative Nonfiction: Risks and Rewards (Sponsored by the Creative Nonfiction StandingCo-Chairs Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2015Writing and Teaching Creative Nonfiction: Risks and Rewards (Sponsored by the Creative Nonfiction Standing
“Access Denied”
Speakers Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2016Creative Nonfiction: Exploring the History and Imagining the Future of an Active Genre
“Will Creative Nonfiction Please Stand Up? Creative Nonfiction and Composition Studies”
Speakers Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2016Writing Teachers Writing: Words in/as ActionSpeakers Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2017Creative Nonfiction and Composition: Cultivating Creative, Academic, and Socially Conscious Connections
“Cultivating the Relationship between Creative Nonfiction and Composition Studies”
Speakers Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2017Cultivating Our Creative Capacities: Writing TeachersSpeakers Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → Saint Joseph's University
2019Career Quest: Navigating a Future in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing StudiesRoundtable Leaders St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2019Performing Our Lives: Creative Nonfiction and (the ArtSpeakers St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA → St. Joseph's University New York
2020Career Quest: Navigating a Future in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing
“Teaching at a Two-Year College”
Roundtable Leaders Saint Joseph’s University, Drexel Hill → Saint Joseph's University
2020Weaving Memoir and History: Creative NonfictionSpeaker Saint Joseph’s University, Drexel Hill → Saint Joseph's University
2020Writing Creative Nonfiction: Finding the Extraordinary in the OrdinarySpeakers Saint Joseph’s University, Drexel Hill → Saint Joseph's University
2021Career Quest: Navigating a Future in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Live
“Writing Program Administrator”
Roundtable Leaders Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2021Writing Creative Nonfiction: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
“Considering the To-Do List”
Speakers Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2022Career Quest: Navigating a Future in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies Live
“Facilitator 3: Writing Center Administration”
Roundtable Leaders Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2022Decentering Whiteness in English: Racial Justice and Curricular Reform Prerecorded/ScheduledRoundtable Leaders St. Joseph’s University → St. Joseph's University New York
2023Ethical Eating: Conflicts, Collaborations, and Commitments
“The Plant”
Speakers Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2023Writing Creative Nonfiction: A Day of Writing and Ideas
“Writing, and Living, toward Hope”
Workshop Facilitators Saint Joseph’s University → Saint Joseph's University
2024Writing Freely against Scarce Time: A Creative Nonfiction Writing WorkshopSpeaker(s) Saint Joseph's University → Saint Joseph's University
2024Creative Nonfiction Standing Group Business MeetingSpeaker(s) Saint Joseph's University → Saint Joseph's University
2025Creative Nonfiction Standing Group Business MeetingSpeaker(s) Saint Joseph's University → Saint Joseph's University
2025Creative Nonfiction Standing Group Business MeetingSpeaker(s) Saint Joseph's University → Saint Joseph's University
2025Shared Dancing at the Silent Disco: A Creative Nonfiction Writing WorkshopSpeaker(s) Saint Joseph's University → Saint Joseph's University
2026Food for Thoughts (and Essays): Creative Nonfiction Standing Group Annual Business MeetingStanding Group or Caucus Chair Saint Joseph's University → Saint Joseph's University
2027Designing Ignatian AI Futures: Discernment, Justice, and Writing Pedagogy in the Age of Generative AIPresenter
2027Design Creative Nonfiction Writing Exercises for the Future—A Workshop by the Creative Nonfiction Writing Standing GroupPresenter

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