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Tom Deans

Listed at 10 conventions, 2004–2025, 15 listings. Printed as: Tom Deans (13), Thomas Deans (2).

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)2007: facilitator (1)2009: chair (1)2010: chair (1)2010: speaker (2)2013: speaker (1)2014: chair (1)2020: chair (1)2020: speaker (1)2023: speaker (2)2025: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2004Students as Citizens: Developing and Assessing Models for Civic Engagement and College Writing
“Assessing Service-Learning and Writing Across Institutions”
Presenters Haverford College, PA → Haverford College
2004Community Matters: Composing Lives within the City, School, and EnvironmentChair Haverford University, PA
2005Community-based Writing: Directions for Research
“Community-based Writing Research: A Review and Proposal”
Presenters Haverford College, PA → Haverford College
2007Service Learning, Community Literacy, and Civic Engage-ment: Developing Teaching and Research (sponsored by the Service Learning and Community Literacy SIG)
“Getting Started Writing for and with the Community”
Facilitators University of Connecticut, Storrs → University of Connecticut
2009ESL Practices: Community, Voice, and IdentityChair University of Connecticut, Storrs Mansfield → University of Connecticut
2010De-Centering Dewey: An Alternative Universe for Community-Engaged WorkChair University of Connecticut, Storrs-Mansfield → University of Connecticut
2010Rethinking Rhetoric, Religion, and Violence
“Reading Jesus Writing: The Story of the Adulteress as a Scene of Writing and a Paradox of Violence”
Speakers University of Connecticut, Storrs → University of Connecticut
2010Style Pedagogy Renewed, Revised, Remixed: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century
“Cultural Style: Incorporating Oral Traditions in Writing”
Speakers University of Connecticut, Storrs → University of Connecticut
2013Expanding the Conversation about Religious
“Sacred Texts, Secular Classrooms, and the Teaching of Theory: Religion and Rhetorical Education”
Speakers University of Connecticut, Storrs → University of Connecticut
2014New Media and New Agency: Redesigning Community-Based WritingChair University of Connecticut, Storrs → University of Connecticut
2020Using Research to Understand Students’ Composing
“The Composing Histories of High-Achieving STEM Majors”
Speakers University of Connecticut → University of Connecticut
2020Flash Tutoring, Time, and Access: Examining Ecology of Mind in the Writing CenterChair University of Connecticut → University of Connecticut
2023Chicago Style: The Hopeful Legacy of Joseph M. Williams
“Williams among the Scientists”
Speakers
2023Doing Hope through International Writing Research
“An Interview-Based Study of Undergraduate STEM Writers in East Africa”
Speakers
2025Remixing a Classic: Janet Emig’s “Writing as a Mode of Learning” in the AI MomentSpeaker(s) University of Connecticut → University of Connecticut

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