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Jessica Restaino

Listed at 18 conventions, 2004–2026, 27 listings.

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

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2000200520102015202020251998 2004: speaker (1)2006: chair (1)2009: speaker (1)2010: speaker (1)2011: speaker (1)2012: speaker (1)2013: chair (1)2014: chair (1)2015: speaker (1)2016: speaker (1)2017: chair (2)2017: speaker (2)2019: respondent (1)2019: facilitator (1)2019: speaker (1)2020: facilitator (1)2020: speaker (1)2022: speaker (1)2023: facilitator (1)2023: speaker (1)2024: speaker (1)2025: speaker (3)2026: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2004Issues and Innovations with Graduate Student Teachers and Teaching
“First-Semester Matters: New Teachers, New Grad Students, and the Juggling Act”
Presenters Temple University, Philadelphia, PA → Temple University
2006Literacy, Ideology, and OppressionChair Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2009Media and Rhetoric from Britney Spears to Barack Obama
“Mother Rhetorics: Reading and Rewriting the Media’s Motherhood”
Speakers Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2010A Two-WayStreet: Reciprocity and Partnership in “The Writers” Room
“A University Approach to the Secondary-Level Classroom”
Speakers Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2011Labored “Balance”: Maternal Bodies, Composition Studies, and Structural
“Surviving Labor: Thinking Bodies and Writing Work”
Speakers Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2012First Books and Second Books: SWR Authors Talk about Developing Book-Length Projects
“‘Washed Out of My Brain’: Unpredictability, Synthesis, and Control in a First Book”
Speakers Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2013Race and Gender: Lessons in Constructing IdentityChair Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2014Open Dialogue: Gender Identities, The Sciences and Feminist PedagogyChair Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2015Research/Approaches
“Surrender as Method: ‘Getting Lost’ in Research, Writing, Rhetoric, and Love”
Speakers Montclair State University, Nutley, NJ → Montclair State University
2016Beyond the Workshop: Experiments in Big Comp
“Space, Flexibility, Spontaneity: A Writing Studio Pilot Mode”
Speakers Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2017The Cultural Powers of Multimodal ComposingChair Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2017Basic Writing Gone, Placement Broken: Reinventing Assessment and Instruction in the Anti-Remediation EraChair Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2017Innovation, Adaptation, Transparency: Creating Change in Writing Research Methodologies
“Method as Lost and Found: Risk, Uncertainty, Knowledge-Making”
Speakers Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2017Community Writing Mentoring WorkshopSpeakers Montclair State University, Nutley, NJ → Montclair State University
2019Women’s Writing as Imperfect Labor: Poetic, Mindful, and Empathetic PracticeRespondent Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2019Spotlight Session: Performances, Possibilities, Problems: A Newly Independent Department Writes Its Own ScriptSpeakers Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2019Community Writing Mentoring WorkshopWorkshop Facilitators Montclair State University, NJ → Montclair State University
2020Community Writing Mentoring WorkshopWorkshop Facilitators Montclair State University, Mountain Lakes, NJ → Montclair State University
2020Owning Our Misfit: Language, Activism, Organizing, and the Stories We Tell (and How We Tell Them)
“Feminist Activism, Materiality, Community”
Speakers Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2022Embodied Exclusions: Institutional Access and the Commitments of Belonging Prerecorded/Scheduled
“Labor, Deliver, Heal: Obstetrics, Trauma, and the Rhetorics of Co-Ethnography”
Speakers Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2023Rhetorics of Trauma and Recovery
“Saving the Self: Violence and Love in Reframing Our Work”
Speakers Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2023Text, Power, Telling: A Writing Workshop for SexualWorkshop Facilitators Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2024Community Writing Mentorship WorkshopSpeaker(s)
2025Finding Faith: Honoring Belief and Remixing the Secular Writing ClassroomSpeaker(s) Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2025Text Power Telling: Remixing Community and Technology to Create Safe Writing Spaces for Sexual Trauma SurvivorsSpeaker(s) Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2025Text Power Telling: Remixing Community and Technology to Create Safe Writing Spaces for Sexual Trauma SurvivorsSpeaker(s) Montclair State University → Montclair State University
2026Literacy as Conversation: Facing Challenges TogetherPresenter Montclair State University → Montclair State University

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