Jami L. Carlacio

Recent Conference Presentations:

“From Unpaid Laborer to New Negro Woman: Rosina Tucker’s Ethos of Work.” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, May, 2008. (accepted for presentation)

“The Role of the Essayist as Public Intellectual.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2008. (accepted for presentation)

“The Politics of Harassment and Feminism’s Response: NOW and Then.” Feminisms and Rhetorics, Little Rock, AR, October 3-5, 2007.

"An Appeal to Ethos: Lydia Maria Child's Abolitionist Manifesto." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 21-25, 2007.

"Sowing the Seeds of Change: Women's Rhetorical Practices, 1828-1838." Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, May 26-29, 2006.

"Entering the Conversation in the Digital Age: Toward a Rhetorical Strategy of Avoiding Plagiarism." Panel presentation at the Conference of the SUNY Council on Writing. SUNY Oswego, April 7-8, 2006.

"Mining the Past for Gold: Discovering the Lived Experience of African American Women." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March 22-26, 2006.

"'[They] Will Be Heard': The Abolitionist Movement and Beloved's Response." Fourth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society. Cincinnati, OH. July 14-17, 2005.

 Roundtable Discussion Leader, Research Network Forum. Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 16-19, 2005.

'"Feeling' Sentimental: Politicizing Race and Gender in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Austin, TX, May 2004

"Re(dis)covering Maria Stewart: America's First Black Female Abolitionist."  Invited Speaker. I Will Be Heard!: Abolitionism in America. Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Special Exhibition, September 2003.

'"Sue For Your Rights and Privileges': The Trans/Per/formative Rhetoric of Maria Stewart." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 2003

"Alternative Articulations of Citizenship: The Written Discourse of a Nineteenth-Century African American Woman." Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Las Vegas, NV, May 2002

"Composing Identities: The Epistolary Practices of Sarah Moore Grimké." Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Biennial Conference, Decatur, IL, October 2001. 

"Making Our Way Down the Slippery Slope: Poststructuralist Histories of Nineteenth-Century Women's Rhetoric." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO, March 2001

"Call and Response: Invoking a Rhetorical Community." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, CO, March 2001 (All-day workshop)

"Graduate Student Administration: A Leadership Conundrum." National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Milwaukee, WI, November 16-21, 2000

"Preparing Rhetorical Leaders for the 21^st Century.” Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Washington. D.C., May 2000 (with Alice Gillam)

"Toward an Integrated Rhetorical Studies Curriculum: Teaching Rhetorical Foundations from an Anti-Foundational Perspective." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, MN, April 2000 "Then and Now: Feminist Mentoring in the Academy." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, MN, April 2000

"Setting a Rhetorical Precedent: The Early 'Feminist' Thought of Sarah Grimké." Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 1999.