How the West Wasn’t One: Unsettling Rhetoric, Blurring Boundaries, and Dealing “Face Up” in a Gambling Town

Session L.8

Role	Name as printed	Affiliation as printed	Paper
Chair	Jane Detweiler	University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno
Presenters	Jane Detweiler	University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno	(Not) Passing Strange: Teaching the Unsettling Blurriness of Sexuali ties, Genders, and Abilities
Presenters	Amy M. Clark	University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno	‘Will Somebody Please Take the Stage, Please?’: Re-casting a Student-Centered Pedagogy in a Homogeneous Classroom
Presenters	Eliot Rendleman	University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno	Self-Censorship in the Wide-Open West: How I/My Students Shut Me/Themselves Down
Presenters	Erika Bein	University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno	Learning, Teaching, and Respecting When Your Students Are Your Peers
Presenters	Brad E. Lucas	University of Nevada, Reno → University of Nevada, Reno	‘Don’t Ask Me to Apologize’: Teaching Atrocities/Visibilities of (the) Class

Source

99__program__l.pdf. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “How the West Wasn’t One: Unsettling Rhetoric, Blurring Boundaries, and Dealing “Face Up” in a Gambling Town.” 1999 Convention Program, Atlanta, session L.8. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.