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Vershawn Young

Listed at 15 conventions, 2006–2026, 26 listings. Printed as: Vershawn Young (20), Vershawn Ashanti Young (5), Vershawn A. Young (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

2000200520102015202020251998 2006: speaker (1)2009: chair (1)2010: chair (1)2010: respondent (1)2010: speaker (1)2011: respondent (1)2011: speaker (1)2012: chair (1)2012: respondent (1)2015: speaker (1)2016: speaker (1)2017: facilitator (2)2017: speaker (1)2018: respondent (2)2018: facilitator (1)2018: speaker (1)2019: chair (2)2020: chair (2)2022: chair (1)2024: speaker (1)2025: speaker (1)2026: speaker (1)

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

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2006Rhetoric, Literature, and the Contemporary Black Experience
“Delayed Cartharsis and the Black Experience in August Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’”
Speakers University of Iowa, Iowa City → University of Iowa
2009World Englishes: Possibilities/Limitations of Code MeshingChair University of Iowa, Iowa City → University of Iowa
2010Geographies of Race: Rethinking Race and Space in the Composition ClassroomRespondents University of Iowa, Iowa City → University of Iowa
2010Racial Performance and the Ethics of Memory
“Momma’s Memories: Performing Disjunctures of Education Post Jim Crow”
Speakers University of Iowa, Iowa City → University of Iowa
2010Re-visiting Multilingualism: Classroom Applications/Possibilities of Code MeshingChair University of Iowa, Iowa City → University of Iowa
2011Our Conflicted Bourgeois Values: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Capitalism
“Could Bigger Thomas and Howard Roark Both Pass Your Writing Class?”
Speakers University of Kentucky, Lexington → University of Kentucky
2011Code-Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, PerformanceRespondents University of Kentucky, Lexington → University of Kentucky
2012Race-ing Cs: Rhetoric while BlackRespondent University of Kentucky, Lexington → University of Kentucky
2012Flooding the Gatekeeper’s Gates: When Other People’sChair University of Kentucky, Lexington → University of Kentucky
2015Absolute Equality: Rhetorics of Race and Class, Resistance and Reconciliation from Jim Crow to a Post-Racial United States
“The Dead Man’s English Teacher: The Rhetorical Gap between Race and Reconciliation”
Speakers University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada → University of Waterloo
2016Negotiating Interactions around Difference: Identity and Responsibility in Communities, Workplaces, and Classrooms
“I Am Not Freddie Gray, but I Want Justice: Access, Equity, and the Racial Responsibility of Black Men and Police Officers”
Speakers University of Waterloo → University of Waterloo
2017What Linguistics Can Offer the Composition TeacherFacilitators University of Waterloo, Canada → University of Waterloo
2017Emotion and Anti-Racist Rhetorics in Writing Studies: Anger as Performance-RhetoricSpeakers University of Waterloo, Canada → University of Waterloo
2017Cultivating and Mobilizing Social Justice Work in CCCCFacilitators University of Waterloo, Canada → University of Waterloo
2018Intervention on the Outskirts: Exploring Social Justice Literacies in Writing Center PracticesRespondents University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada → University of Waterloo
2018LOUD-talkin and the Verbal Art of Antiracist Languaging: A PerformanceSpeakers University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada → University of Waterloo
2018Challenging and Resisting Language Ideologies through Critical Language AwarenessRespondent University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada → University of Waterloo
2018SJAC Exploring Issues in Social Justice and ActivismWorkshop Facilitators University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada → University of Waterloo
2019Spotlight Session: Black Rhetoric Matters! The Routledge Reader of African American RhetoricChair University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada → University of Waterloo
2019Sound SIGChair Program Chair/CCCC Associate Chair, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada → University of Waterloo
2020Teaching Writing in the Literature Classroom TodayChair University of Waterloo → University of Waterloo
2020Cultivating Culturally Responsive English Composition Curriculum at the Two-Year CollegeChair
2022Changing the University One Counterstory at a TimeChairs University of Waterloo → University of Waterloo
2024The Agony and Ecstasy of Abundant Writing
“A ‘Straight Black Queer’ Analysis of Writing and Desire”
Speaker(s) University of Waterloo, Canada → University of Waterloo
2025Get Up Offa That Thing! Black Music, Language, Liberation and the Writing Classroom, Writing Centre, and Writing Program AdministrationSpeaker(s) University of Waterloo → University of Waterloo
2026All-Attendee Session -- Conversations That Carry Us Forward: Perspectives from Past CCCC ChairsPanelist University of Waterloo → University of Waterloo

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