Acceptance to two conferences

SEPTEMBER 2023 — The Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University and the SUNY Council on Writing accepted my session proposal for "The Readiness Is AI: Conceptualizing radical agency in the humanities during a binary age.” I will attend the virtual conference “Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence" on October 13.

“You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.” — Brené Brown

ANOTHER ACCEPTANCE is from the 2024 4C's convention in Spokane, Washington. As a member of the Queer Caucus sponsored panel, I will conduct pone of four presentations that scrutinize queer rhetorics and literacies, rhetorics of difference and alienation, queer imagination, and queer abundance.

Before Marx’s theory of alienation, writings from antiquity used iterations of the term alien to describe both immaterial estrangement from God and alienation from one’s own material property. Queer writings continually circle back to economic and social experiences of alienation. Rhetorical studies as a tool is needed to systematically parse the complex relationship between the individualized queer self and the alienated other under global industrialization as mediated in language through argument. Grounded in queer rhetorics and capitalist critique, my project first charts Marx’s alienation within texts from theorists trained in French post-1945 philosophy. The artifact analyzed is Gary Fisher’s Gary In Your Pocket, a diarist’s response to state-sponsored genocide and an arguable literary equivalent to The Diary of Anne Frank.