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Suresh Canagarajah

Listed at 15 conventions, 2009–2025, 30 listings.

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2009: respondent (1)2009: speaker (1)2010: chair (1)2010: speaker (1)2011: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2014: respondent (1)2014: facilitator (1)2015: chair (1)2015: respondent (1)2016: speaker (2)2017: respondent (2)2018: respondent (1)2018: speaker (1)2019: chair (2)2019: facilitator (1)2019: speaker (1)2020: chair (1)2021: speaker (1)2022: speaker (1)2023: respondent (1)2023: speaker (1)2024: speaker (2)2025: speaker (3)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2009Transnational English(es) and U.S. Composition: From Global to Glocal
“The Limits of Hybridity: Transnational Identities in Academic Publishing”
Speakers Pennsylvania State University, State College → Pennsylvania State University
2009Waves of Transnational Composition, Ways of Doing Inter-cultural RhetoricRespondent The Pennsylvania State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2010Composition 2.0: Remixing Language and Culture in Transnational ContextsChair The Pennsylvania State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2010Working English, Rewriting Composition
“Multilingual Negotiation Strategies and Composing in English”
Speakers Pennsylvania State University, State College → Pennsylvania State University
2011(Re)Defining Translingual Writing
“Strategies of Translingual Writing: Learning from Students”
Speakers Pennsylvania State University, State College → Pennsylvania State University
2014Literate Arts: Autoethnography and CompositionChair The Pennsylvania State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2014Translingualism in Theory and Practice: Successes and ChallengesRespondent The Pennsylvania State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2014Crossing BW/ESL/FYW Divides, II: Pedagogical and Institutional Strategies for Translingual WritingWorkshop Leaders The Pennsylvania State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2015Developing Teacher Knowledge in Composition: Risks and Rewards of a Practice-Based ApproachChair The Pennsylvania State University, State College → Pennsylvania State University
2015The Place of Ethnic Identity in Translingual Practice: Are They Compatible in Composition?Respondent The Pennsylvania State University, State College → Pennsylvania State University
2016Global Contexts of Scientific Literacies
“Multimodal Resources of Multilingual Professionals in STEM Writing: An Activity-based Orientation”
Speakers Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2016Engaging the Global in the Teaching of Writing: CriticalSpeakers Penn State University → Pennsylvania State University
2017Neoliberal Discourses, Translingual Dispositions: Cultivating Critical Perspectives among Scholars in Composition, Applied Linguistics, and SociolinguisticsRespondent Penn State University → Pennsylvania State University
2017“The Empire Writes Back”: Toward a Geopolitical Paradigm of TranslingualismRespondent Penn State University → Pennsylvania State University
2018What Embodied (Trans)Languaging Means to Ethnographic Methodology
“Translanguaging in Embodied and Extended Communication”
Respondents The Pennsylvania State University, State College → Pennsylvania State University
2018Data Storytelling, Embodied Activities of Words, and Visual Euphemism: Considering How Big Data, Words, and Images Are Embodied and Do Language Work
“How to Do Words with Things: STEM Writing as Performative”
Speakers Pennsylvania State University, State College → Pennsylvania State University
2019Assembling Translingual Performances: Redefining AgencySpeakers Penn State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2019Spotlight Session: Power and Performance in Translingual Academic WritingChair Penn State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2019Exploring the ENG/ESL Divide within CompositionChair Penn State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2019Engaging the Global: Performing Translingual/TransmodalWorkshop Facilitators Penn State University, University Park → Pennsylvania State University
2020Challenges in Achieving Commonplaces with MultilingualChair Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2021Locating Commonplaces with Language Diversity Prerecorded w/ Live Q&A
“How to Achieve Commonplaces despite Classroom Diversity”
Speaker Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2022Promises and Perils of Allyship in Linguistic Justice
“Alliance Building of a Postcolonial Asian Scholar with African American First-Year Students”
Speakers The Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2023Vulnerability as Resource: Doing Hope through Translingual Literacies
“Hopeful Resources from Vulnerable Contexts of Writing”
Speakers The Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2023The Energy of Recollection: Generating Hope through NarrativeRespondent Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2024Writing Disability/Writing Abundance: Resistant Practices and Epistemologies from South Asia
“Writing from a Fractured Locus”
Speaker(s) Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2024Writing Disability/Writing Abundance: Resistant Practices and Epistemologies from South Asia
“Writing from a Fractured Locus”
Speaker(s) Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2025Community Collaboration as B-side: Remixing Praxis for Linguistic JusticeSpeaker(s) Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2025Publishing in the CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Book SeriesSpeaker(s) Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University
2025Remix: Global South VibesSpeaker(s) Pennsylvania State University → Pennsylvania State University

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