Speakers Thursday Keynote Speaker -- Krista Ratcliffe Krista Ratcliffe is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. Her research examines the cultural presence and/or absence of women's voices. Her work includes Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich, which studies how women's voices emerge in western rhetorical traditions; Who's Having This Baby?: Perspectives on Birthing, which studies how women's voices emerge (or don't) in literary and lived birthing narratives; and Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness, which studies identifications with gender and whiteness in public debates, rhetorical scholarship, and composition pedagogy. She is also a past president of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Dr. Ratcliffe will speak at the Thursday luncheon. Friday Keynote Speaker -- Dr. Joycelyn Elders A native of Schaal, Arkansas, Dr. Elders is the oldest of eight children. Now a professor emeritus of pediatric endocrinology, at the University of Arkansas School of Medical Science, Dr. Elders never saw a physician prior to her first year in college. At the age of 15 she received a scholarship from the United Methodist Church to attend Philander Smith College in Little Rock, AR. Upon graduation at age 18, she entered the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant and received training as a physical therapist. Dr. Elders attended the University of Arkansas Medical School (UAMS) on the G.I. Bill. After graduation in 1960, she was an intern at the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis and did a pediatric residency and an endocrinology fellowship at the University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock. She received the position of full professorship after her fellowship and board certification in 1976. She also holds a Master of Science degree in biochemistry. Dr. Elders joined the faculty at UAMS as a professor of pediatrics and received board certification as a pediatric endocrinologist in 1978. She was appointed Director of the Arkansas Department of Health in October of 1987. While serving as director, she was elected President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers. Dr. Elders was nominated as Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service by President Clinton on July 1, 1993, and confirmed by the Senate September 7, and sworn in on September 8. Dr. Elders served in this post until January 1995 and subsequently returned to teaching until her retirement on June 30, 1998. Dr. Elders says her greatest achievement is that she married Oliver Elders and they have two sons, Eric and Kevin. Featured Speakers Hui Wu Dr. Hui Wu is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA). Her research interests encompass history of rhetoric, comparative studies of rhetoric, global feminist rhetorics, and archival research in rhetoric and composition. Her articles appear in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College English, College Communication and Composition, as well as scholarly anthologies. She has translated C. Jan Swearingen’s Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies (Oxford University Press, 1990) into Chinese to offer Chinese academics an alternative point of view on the history of Western literacy (Jiangxi Education Press, 2004). She is now working on two book projects. One is an anthology of translated essays on gender by Chinese women writers, and the other a reading of China’s earliest treatise on persuasion in 400-300 BCE. In addition to her scholarship, Wu is also the founder of the Chinese studies program at UCA and the UCA Confucius Institute of Chinese Language and Culture. Malea Powell Malea Powell is a mixed-blood of Indiana Miami, Eastern Shawnee, and Euroamerican ancestry. She is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture at Michigan State University where she directs the Rhetoric & Writing program and serves as a faculty member in the American Indian Studies program. Her published research focuses on examining the rhetorics of survivance used by nineteenth-century American Indian intellectuals. Her current scholarship focuses on American Indian material rhetorics and the degree to which such everyday arts tie tradition and innovation in the cultural practices of contemporary Native women. Her book project, Rhetorical Powwows, ties her historical and material scholarship together. She is also currently editor of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, a quarterly journal devoted to the study of American Indian writing. She has twice won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers "Writer of the Year" award for scholarly editing of the journal. Carol Mattingly Carol Mattingly is Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she teaches writing, rhetoric, and women's literature. Her primary scholarly interest involves nineteenth-century women's rhetoric and literacy; her publications include Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric; Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-century America; and Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader. In addition, her articles have appeared in such journals as College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, and Writing Lab Newsletter. Her current research examines nineteenth-century women's literacy efforts, especially as related to Catholic convent academies. Carol is director of the Writing Centers Research Project and serves on the editorial board of College Composition and Communication and the advisory board of the Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives. Jessica Reyman Jessica Reyman is Assistant Professor of rhetoric and professional writing in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University. Her research and teaching interests include technical and professional communication, digital rhetoric, and copyright and intellectual property law. Reyman received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2006. She co-edited the collection Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture (2004). Her work has also appeared in College Composition and Communication. Shirley Wilson Logan Shirley Wilson Logan teaches composition, rhetoric, and African American literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is editor of With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women and author of “We Are Coming”: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women and essays in various collections. In addition to coediting the Southern Illinois University Press series Rhetorics and Feminisms, she has served as head of Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Alliance of Rhetoric Societies, and the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. She is completing a book on black sites of rhetorical education. Featured Panels Civil Rights/Civic Discourse: Local, National, International Joyce Elliot Minnijean Brown Trickey Rita Sklar Women in Art Katherine Strause Sabrina Zarco Mary Ross Taylor The Crisis at Central High Johanna Lewis Sondra Gordy Sandra Hubbard Elizabeth Jacoway

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