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2008 · New Orleans

Learning from the Past for the Realities of the Present: Writing Reform in Comenius, De Quincey, Lewes

Session F.9

Area: History

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Amy Heckathorn California State University, Sacramento → California State University, Sacramento
Speakers Joonna Trapp Northwestern College, Orange City, IA → Northwestern College John Amos Comenius’s Rhetorical and Christian Refashioning of Educational Realities
Speakers Lois Agnew Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University Thomas De Quincey’s Rhetoric: Writing a New Reality for a Mechanical Age
Speakers Julianne Smith Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA → Pepperdine University George Henry Lewes: Shaping Future Realities from the Victorian Past

Source

NCTE's program, near page 160 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Learning from the Past for the Realities of the Present: Writing Reform in Comenius, De Quincey, Lewes.” 2008 Convention Program, New Orleans, session F.9. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.