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Laura Gonzales Lecture: Designing and Sustaining Writing Programs for and with Multilingual Students

November 6, 2020 - 9:30am

The MWP's writing about writing learning community, with grant support from the Center for Humanities, is excited to remotely host Laura Gonzales on Friday, November 6th. Activities will include a campus lecture, "Designing and Sustaining Writing Programs for and with Multilingual Students." 

Abstract: In this presentation, Gonzales will argue that multilingual students have important strengths and experiences that should be centralized in the development of writing programs. Positioning translation as a rhetorical technology that multilingual writers practice every day, Gonzales will suggest that language diversity should be a central component of writing curricula design across areas of specialization, including first-year composition and professional writing. Language diversity is an asset that should inform writing education, particularly as students prepare to work as effective communicators in contemporary academic, business, and community contexts.  

This will be the first of three campus lectures the learning community has planned for this year, with a focus on supporting multilingual students.

Dr. Gonzales is Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics at the University of Florida, where her research and teaching focus on technical communication, digital rhetorics, and user-experience. As part of this work, she also collaborates with community members, practitioners, researchers, and students to design and develop multilingual digital tools and technologies. Her recent book, Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric (University of Michigan Press, 2018) received the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize.

 

Location

This lecture will be hosted remotely via Zoom.  Registration now open. Note that the first five registrants will also receive a copy of her book.