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Rhea Estelle Lathan

Listed at 17 conventions, 2004–2026, 35 listings. Printed as: Rhea Estelle Lathan (28), Rhea Lathan (7).

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

reviewed Two or more spellings of this name were joined by a reviewer.

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2004: chair (1)2004: speaker (1)2005: speaker (1)2006: speaker (1)2007: speaker (1)2008: chair (1)2008: speaker (1)2009: chair (2)2009: respondent (1)2009: speaker (1)2011: chair (1)2011: respondent (1)2011: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2015: chair (1)2016: chair (1)2017: speaker (2)2019: chair (3)2019: respondent (1)2019: speaker (2)2020: respondent (3)2020: facilitator (1)2021: respondent (2)2022: speaker (1)2025: speaker (2)2026: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2004African American Women RhetorsChair University of Wisconsin, Madison → University of Wisconsin–Madison
2004African American Women Rhetors
“‘Did You Know’: Ethel Asalea Johnson’s Rhetorical Campaign against Jim Crow”
Presenters University of Wisconsin, Madison → University of Wisconsin–Madison
2005(Re) Affirmative (Pro) Action: Breaking Models of Composition
“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: A Case of African American Adult Literacy Action in South Carolina, 1957–1962”
Presenters University of Wisconsin–Madison → University of Wisconsin–Madison
2006Singing, Preaching, and Teaching in a Strange Land: Composing Community and Building Coalitions
“The Gospel Truth: Historical Perspective on African American Gospel Politics and Literacy as Cultural Practice”
Speakers University of Wisconsin–Madison → University of Wisconsin–Madison
2007Nommo: Literacy, the Word, and Intersections with African
“‘I’ve Got a Testimony’: Bearing Witness to a Historical Case of African American Curriculum and Instructional Methods: 1955–1962”
Speakers Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2008Representin’ Colored Realities: Writing Policy and Commitment to Speakers of EbonicsChair Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2008Eyes beyond the Prize: Reinterpreting and (Re)inscribing Race, Gender, Class, Ethos and Space in Civil Rights Movement Histories
“Unfinished Business: An Afrafeminist (Re)definition of Civil Rights Literacy Activism on the South Carolina Sea Islands 1957–1962”
Speakers Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2009Revising Race, Remixing the Rainbow: Queer of ColorChair Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2009Revising Race, Remixing the Rainbow: Queer of ColorRespondent Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2009Why That Record Keep on Skippin’: Moving SRTOL be-yond the Same Song, Different Verse 35—Years LaterChair Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2009Tracing the Stream and Filling the Well: Afrafeminist (Re)Definitions of African Diasporic Women’s
“A Lifeboat in a Sea of Destruction: A Case of African American Women Using Literacy to Resolve Social, Spiritual, and Political Dilemmas”
Speakers Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2011Contesting Bodies: Visual Rhetoric in the Struggle over
“Unsettling Boundaries: Critical Consequences”
Speakers Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2011Contesting Bodies: Visual Rhetoric in the Struggle overRespondent Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2011“Ready or Not, Here I Come”: Composing Black FeminineChair Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2014The Ties That Bind: Embroidered Protest, Substance Abuse, and Unending Burkean Conversations about AlcoholChair Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2015Sense and ScentsabilityChair Florida State University, Tallashassee → Florida State University
2016Growing #digital Communities: The Tools, the Prison, and the Writing ClassroomChair Florida State University → Florida State University
2017Studies in Writing and Rhetoric: Cultivating Capacity for Authors, Creating Change for the Field
“Creating Change: From Proposal to Book”
Speakers Florida State University → Florida State University
2017Fostering Spaces of Difference and Their Circulation within Composition and Rhetoric ScholarshipSpeakers Florida State University → Florida State University
2019Whiteness Response (Ability): Rhetorical Performances of White Citizenship, Racial, and Feminist IdentitiesRespondent Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2019Spotlight Session: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric: Performing Embodiment, Enacting a Field, Part 1
“Structural Intersectionality: New Structures for New Knowledge”
Speakers Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2019Spotlight Session: With Unapologetic Pride: A Performance of Disruptive Narrations of MarginalizedChair Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2019Spotlight Session: Our Liberation Wasn’t Never Gon’ Be Televised . . . Black News Ain’t FakeSpeakers Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2019“This Is America”: Literacy, Revolution, and Black Narratives of Self-ActualizationChair Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2019Spotlight Session: Sellin’ Black Men: The Costs of LiteracyChair Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2020Transformative LeadershipWorkshop Facilitators Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
2020Spotlight Session: Livable Futures for RhetoricsRespondent Florida State University → Florida State University
2020(e)Race(ing) Barriers: From Literacy Segregation to Literacy Autonomy in Writing StudiesRespondent Florida State University → Florida State University
2020Speaking out of Church Basements: Reflecting on the Rhetoric of Institutionalized Narratives of Recovery in Order to Reimagine More Inclusive Community StoriesRespondent Florida State University → Florida State University
2021Interrogating Whiteness in Contested and Common Writing Spaces LiveRespondent Florida State University → Florida State University
2021Livable Futures for Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Indigenous, Latinx, Black, Asian, and Asian AmericanRespondent Florida State University → Florida State University
2022Beyond Inclusion: Dismantling Contested Writing SpacesSpeakers Florida State University → Florida State University
2025New Black City: Life Writing, Literacies, Healing and Restorative PracticesSpeaker(s) Florida State University → Florida State University
2025New Black City: Life Writing, Literacies, Healing and Restorative PracticesSpeaker(s) Florida State University → Florida State University
2026Conferencing Transformed: Black Women Recovering CommunityPresenter Florida State University → Florida State University

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