Next Week: Casey Boyle Talk and Workshop

Next week we’re thrilled to be hosting a talk by Dr. Casey Boyle on Monday, October 10th at 4pm entitled "On the Subject of Landscapes" 

 

Elkins (2014) considers how writing on landscapes deceives a writer into believing she is a subject separate from the nature she inhabits. This separation leads the writer into relating to the world as observer/overseer. This sentiment echoes a host of writing studies scholarship on how writing creates and sustains ruptures between us and the world (Yagelski 2011; Cooper 1986; Dobrin & Weisser 2002). However, landscape as a composing form—a multicultural genre composed through multiple media—also offers productive alternatives. I build on ecocomposition by examining the form/function of landscapes (broadly construed) to explore how writing is both a cause of our strained relationship to our environments and a practice to help us towards more just and sustainable relationships through the development of aesthetic responsibility.

 

This talk will be held in Adorjan 142 and will include drinks and snacks after the lecture and discussion 

 

Dr. Boyle will also hold a workshop on Tuesday, October 11th from 1-3pm in Adorjan 142 entitled "Landscaping."

Landscapes are a multi-genre, multi-media practice. Representing landscapes similarity involve a multiplicity of concerns, including ethical, aesthetic, ontological and epistemological. In this workshop, participants will exercise many modes involved in representing landscapes in ways that build towards aesthetic responsibility.


Casey Boyle is Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas in Austin and Director of the Digital Writing & Research Lab where he researches and teaches digital rhetoric, media studies, accessibility, techno-poetics/ethics, and/as rhetorical history. He earned a BA at the University of Texas, an MA at the University of North Texas, and a PhD in the Rhetoric/Composition program at the University of South Carolina. His work has appeared in Kairos, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, College English as well as essay collections such as Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition, and Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman. He is a co-editor (with Scot Barnett) for the essay collection Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things, (with Lynda Walsh) Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric, and (with Jenny Rice) Inventing Place.

His book, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice, explores the role of practice and ethics in digital rhetoric and is available from The Ohio State University Press. Casey is currently working on a few projects. Racing to Empathy (with Terrance Green) intervenes against implicit bias against Black girls in primary education through a video game based intervention and study; A Version to Access (with Nathaniel Rivers) concerns media and accessibility; Mediating Education examines expressive computing and subjectivity; and Environmental Imaginaries attends to a weird project about technology and nature.

We hope to see you there!


Welcome Back & Fall Events

Welcome back to the Fall 2022 semester! We’re excited to have a great series of events lined up for the semester. Students are welcome to drop into any and all of our workshops to learn about different kinds of equipment that they might use for multimodal projects. Later this semester, we’re teaming up with Central Print for a hands-on workshop about printing presses and the history of letterpress printing.

Welcome Back! Come Find Us!

We’re so excited to welcome students and instructors back to the Compass Lab for the Fall semester. Come find us in Des Peres Hall 216! If you don’t know where that is, here is a hyper-lapse of the journey from the West Pine walk all the way up to our nook in Des Peres, shot on one of our DJI Pocket Osmo cameras.