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2008 · New Orleans

Defensiveness, Alienation, and the Politics of the Personal: Problems in Composition Theory

Session H.14

Area: Theory · family: Theory and research methods

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Dauvan Mulally Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI → Grand Valley State University
Speakers Rene Harrison Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN → Purdue University West Lafayette Composing Alienation: An Aesthetic History Using Generative Anthropology
Speakers Don Kraemer California State Polytechnic University, Pomona → California State Polytechnic University Unequal Exchange: Painful Realities of Defensive Writing
Speakers Lance Massey Bowling Green State University, OH → Bowling Green State University Toward a Mesosocial Politics of the Personal in Composition Research and Scholarship

Source

NCTE's program, near page 189 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. “Defensiveness, Alienation, and the Politics of the Personal: Problems in Composition Theory.” 2008 Convention Program, New Orleans, session H.14. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.