the frog blog

Hi, everyone,

I'm back from the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, where I gave my paper on Frances Power Cobbe, Harriet Martineau, and Maud Gonne, all women writers commenting on the Irish Question within the Victorian periodical press. Michigan was very lovely, with all the fall colors, and I left even more convinced that I want to get back to the upper-Midwest as soon as possible.

Highlights of the conference were panels on feminism and writing program administration, and visual rhetorics in the Victorian press, two topics very close to my heart. Not a lot of big names this year, but the event featured a lot more diversity.

I highly recommend the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference to anyone interested in women and communication: one needn't be a composition and rhetoric scholar to fit in with this crowd. And it's a very friendly atmosphere, not at all agonistic. I got good advice about the job hunt just by striking up conversations with people at lunch, in the airport shuttle, etc. The next conference will be held in 2011 at Minnesota State University Mankato. (Hopefully, by then, I will be close enough to drive ;)

Oh, and to somewhat make up for my absence last week, I'm holding office hours today. I'll be here until 11, and then back from 1-2.