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2011 · Atlanta

Call of Nature: Counter-Culture, Taboo, and Urban Legends

Session J.10

Area: Teaching Writing & Rhetoric · family: Teaching and pedagogy

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Craig Hulst Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI → Grand Valley State University
Speakers Christopher Alexander University of Louisville, KY → University of Louisville ‘I’d Like to get it right:’ Trout Fishing in America and Countercultural Composition
Speakers Michael Sobiech University of Louisville, KY → University of Louisville When a Bear Wipes in the Woods: The Charmin Bears and the Rhetoric of the Taboo
Speakers Doug Bradley University of California, Santa Barbara → University of California, Santa Barbara Contesting Counterknowledge: What Happens When Writing Teachers and Their Students do Critical Research into Urban Legends, Hoaxes, and Conspiracy Theories

Source

NCTE's program, near page 225 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. “Call of Nature: Counter-Culture, Taboo, and Urban Legends.” 2011 Convention Program, Atlanta, session J.10. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.