Steven Lessner

Listed at 13 conventions, 2007–2026, 19 listings. Printed as: Steven Lessner (16), Steve Lessner (2), Steven T. Lessner (1).

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

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

Listings

Year	Session	Role	Affiliation as printed
2007	Language Conflicts? African American Vernacular English, Standard English, and Students Rights to Their Own Texts	Chair	Towson University, MD → Towson University
2007	Language Conflicts? African American Vernacular English, Standard English, and Students Rights to Their Own Texts “Preserving Identity through Diverse Dialects: The Validity of Using AAVE in Composition Classrooms”	Speakers	Towson University, MD → Towson University
2009	Challenging the Boundaries of First-Year Composition: Reflections and Strategies for Invention, Arrangement, and Revision	Speakers	Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2010	Creating Safe Writing Center Spaces for Diverse Students	Facilitators	Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2010	Global Literacies in Context: Remixing the Geography of First-Year Writing Programs in America “Gender Remix: Masculinity in a Global Frame”	Speakers	Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2011	Theories of Technology	Chair	Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2011	All Our Relations: (Teaching) Writing in the Global Now “Mapping the Process of Globalization across Institutional Contexts: The Place of First-Year Writing in Global Curricula”	Speakers	Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2011	Situated Invention—Mapping, Documenting, Theorizing, and Contesting Generativity	Speakers	Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI → Michigan State University
2012	Space, Portal, Passage: Invention and the Near Invisible	Speakers	Michigan State University, East Lansing → Michigan State University
2017	What’s the Matter Here?	Chair	Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale → Northern Virginia Community College
2018	“I Got the Music in Me”: Identity, Difference, and Understanding Relationships	Chair	Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale → Northern Virginia Community College
2018	The Work of Hip-Hop Pedagogy: A Hip-Hop Literacies	Speakers	Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale → Northern Virginia Community College
2019	Ain’t No Half Steppin’: Historizing an Epideictic Spectacle	Chair	Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale → Northern Virginia Community College
2019	“Power to the People, No Delay”: The Transformative	Workshop Facilitators	Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale → Northern Virginia Community College
2020	Classroom Affect: Peer Review, Assessment, and Pedagogical Identity	Chair	Northern Virginia Community College → Northern Virginia Community College
2022	Belonging as a Route to Equity, Inclusion, and Action: Being Here as the Catalyst for Social Justice “Man Up!: Minority Male Mentoring”	Speakers	Northern Virginia Community College → Northern Virginia Community College
2024	Teaching Community: Conversations on Controversy and Contested Ideas in Hip-Hop and Black Oratorical Traditions “‘You Can Write a Book on Each of My Thoughts’: Centering Hip-Hop Memoir as Invention in First-Year Writing”	Speaker(s)	Northern Virginia Community College → Northern Virginia Community College
2025	Get Up Offa That Thing! Black Music, Language, Liberation and the Writing Classroom, Writing Centre, and Writing Program Administration	Speaker(s)	Northern Virginia Community College → Northern Virginia Community College
2026	(Everybody Can’t Be Outside, the Outside) Tomorrow Can’t Be Borrowed: Hip-Hop Activism’s Relevance to Teaching and Writing about Possible Lives	Presenter	Northern Virginia Community College → Northern Virginia Community College

Often listed with

People who shared at least two sessions with this person and have three or more listings of their own.

Nancy DeJoy 6 sessions, 2009–2022
David Green 3 sessions, 2018–2026
Beatrice Quarshie Smith 2 sessions, 2010–2011
Jason Wirtz 2 sessions, 2011–2012
Sarah Arroyo 2 sessions, 2011–2012

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