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Nancy Effinger Wilson
Academic
Interests: Rhetoric
& Composition, Writing Center Theory
Current
research project(s):
I’m working on an article entitled “Standard American English:
Whose Standard Is It?” for a collection of essays entitled
The Other Sides of Silence: Negotiating
Race in Writing Center Discourse and Practice.
I’m also writing essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved for a
publication entitled General Themes in Literature.
Publications:
“Current
Issues: GQ and The New Yorker Meet Classical
Rhetoric.” Kairos
7.2 (Summer 2002). Available online at
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/
"Writing
Center Counselor Training and the ESL Student." The
Writing Lab Newsletter
23.3 (November 1998): 1-4.
Conference Presentations:
"We Need to
Know Each Other." College Reading and Learning Association, Austin,
Texas. October 2006
"ESL
Expectations: When Our Best Intentions Fail." South Central Writing
Center Association, Little Rock, Arkansas. February 25, 2006.
"Not So White
Noise." Council of College Teachers of English, Corpus Christi,
Texas. March 2006.
"Pragmatics
and Semiotics of a Texas State University Writing Center."
Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas, Waco, Texas,
March 4, 2005.
"Oriental
Ireland: West is East." The American Conference for Irish Studies,
Houston, Texas. February 26, 2005.
"Hi, I Need to
Know You." College Academic Support Programs Conference, South Padre
Island, Texas. October 7, 2004.
"Writing
Center Pedagogy." Council of College Teachers of English, Beaumont,
Texas. March 5, 2004.
"TExES
Challenges: Preparing New English Teachers." Texas Council of
Teachers of English and Language Arts, Austin, Texas. January 2004.
Hometown:
Oklahoma City
Previous
degrees: B.A. in
English, University of
Oklahoma; M.A. in English,
Southwest
Texas
State
University
Hobbies:
O.U. Football! Traveling, birdwatching.
Favorite
Authors: Salman
Rushdie, Edna O’Brien, James Joyce, Jorge Borges, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
Ultimate
Vacation: a month
in Slovenia with day trips to Italy, Hungary, Austria, and Croatia!
Email:
nw05@txstate.edu |
