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Melissa Nicolas

Listed at 13 conventions, 2004–2027, 22 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: chair (1)2006: speaker (1)2008: speaker (1)2010: chair (1)2010: speaker (1)2011: chair (1)2011: speaker (1)2015: speaker (1)2016: speaker (1)2017: chair (1)2017: speaker (2)2018: facilitator (1)2018: speaker (2)2020: chair (1)2020: facilitator (1)2020: speaker (1)2024: speaker (2)2026: speaker (1)2027: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2004FEMINISM? WOMANISM? GENDER STUDIES? WHERE ARE WE NOW AND HOW DO WE MATTER?Chairs Penn State Lehigh Valley, Macungie → Lebanon Valley College
2006Decentered, Recentered: Writing in Katrina’s Wake
“Keeping Us in Our Place: Women and the Academy”
Speaker University of Louisiana, Lafayette → University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2008Researching the Personal: Writing after Trauma, Birth Nar-ratives, and Voice in Research
“In the Middle of the Tempests: Education and the Search for Normalcy”
Speakers Rochester Institute of Technology, NY → Rochester Institute of Technology
2010Negotiating Spaces, Articulating Our Places: Structuring and Re-Structuring Professional SelvesChair Drew University, Madison, NJ → Drew University
2010Feminist Intersectionality: Confronting Identity(ies), Censorship, and Action
“Why I Left Feminism and Why I Came Back: Examining Rhetorical Space Within Feminism”
Speakers Drew University, Center Valley, PA → Drew University
2011Using Qualitative Research to Negotiate “Our Relations”Chair Drew University, Madison, NJ → Drew University
2011Using Qualitative Research to Negotiate “Our Relations”
“The Advantage of Having a Qualitative Toolkit: Using Qualitative Research in Administration”
Speakers Drew University, Madison, NJ → Drew University
2015Risky Disclosure: Mental Illness and Teachers of WritingSpeakers Drew University, Center Valley, PA → Drew University
2016Feminist Action for Women Writing ProgramSpeakers Drew University → Drew University
2017Making [Institutional] Ethnography Our Own: UncoveringSpeakers University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno
2017“Cripping” the Writing Program: Disability and Policy beyond the Ableist Script
“‘Cripping’ the Writing Program: Program Policy Statements and the ‘Normal’ Student”
Speakers University of Nevada → University of Nevada, Reno
2017Capacity Building for Community Engagement: Scaling Up from Local Inquiry to Writing Programs to InstitutionalChair University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno
2018SJAC Planning for Social Justice Work in HomeWorkshop Facilitators University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno
2018Transforming Patriarchal Academic Institutions through Feminist Research: Exploring the Laboring Bodies and Languages of Women Writing Program Administrators
“The Disabled WPA”
Speakers University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno
2018Feminist Workshop: Feminist Rhetorics of Resistance
“At the Nexus of Disability and Feminist Studies: The Ethics of Non-Normativity”
Speakers University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno
2020Teaching and Learning Access Advocacy: CreatingWorkshop Facilitators Washington State University → Washington State University
2020Marginalizing and Exclusionary Commonplaces in Academia, Rhet/Comp, CCCC: How We Survive and ThriveSpeakers Washington State University → Washington State University
2020The Universal First-Year Writing Requirement: RethinkingChairs Washington State University → Washington State University
2024Moral Injury, Scarcity (Rhetorical and Actual), and Abundance on the WPA-FrontierSpeaker(s) Washington State University → Washington State University
2024We Are All Struggling to Be a Patient: Maintaining Rhetorical Agency within a Biased Medical FieldSpeaker(s) Washington State University → Washington State University
2026Feminist Neo-Expressivism and 21st-Century Embodied PedagogyPresenter Washington State University → Washington State University
2027Transformative Humanities: Reimagining Graduate Education as Collective SurvivancePresenter Washington State University → Washington State University

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