Special Events
MEALS: A continental breakfast will be provided, from 8:00 to 9:45 a.m. on Saturday and from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, in the second-floor lobby of the Thomas Building. Boxed lunches will be provided at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, also in the second-floor lobby. Coffee, tea, water, and soda will be available throughout the conference. The conference participants will be on their own for dinner on Saturday evening and lunch on Sunday afternoon.
REGISTRATION: Registration and a reception will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday in the Johnston Commons. Continuing on Saturday, registration will start at 8:00 a.m. and will be held in the second-floor lobby of the Thomas Building.
FRIDAY-EVENING PERFORMANCE AND DANCE: Fleshcoat featuring Dr. E will kick off our celebration of peer tutoring history by helping us dance backward, forward, and all around in the Mars Room of the Johnston Commons, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
SATURDAY-AFTERNOON OPEN MIC AND CAMPUS TOURS: Take a tour with a peer tutor after lunch to see some Penn State sites! Or stay in the Thomas Building (Room 100) for open-mic performances.
SATURDAY-EVENING OPEN MIC: Come to a second open-mic session, this one in the Undergraduate Writing Center, 219 Boucke Building, from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m.
POSTER SESSIONS: On Saturday and Sunday, poster sessions will be featured in the second-floor lobby of the Thomas Building.
PLENARY SESSIONS: (1) Jeremy Cohen, Penn State's associate vice president and senior associate dean for undergraduate education, will welcome the participants to the conference at 9:10 a.m. on Saturday in 100 Thomas Building. (2) At 11:15 a.m. in 100 Thomas, Michele Eodice, the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing's 2006 Maxwell Award winner, will present the 2007 award to Susan Dinitz, and then Kenneth Bruffee will deliver the keynote address, introduced by Katy Rank Lev. (3) For 5:15 p.m. on Saturday in 100 Thomas, Brian Fallon has organized a collaborative session in which current and former peer tutors, along with current and former administrators, will tell stories that define the history of the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. (4) On Sunday three peer tutor coordinators from Penn State’s Undergraduate Writing Center—Jeremy Corbett, Barbara Greene, and Meghann Hjulstrom—will bring the conference to a close with open-mic reflective summations and a raffle, from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. in 100 Thomas.
SUNDAY-AFTERNOON CAMPUS TOURS: If you were not able to tour the campus on Saturday, you will have another chance, from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. on Sunday.
SUNDAY-AFTERNOON PARTY: Following the conference programming on campus, the remaining participants are invited to a party, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., at the lovely rural home of Ron and Mary Maxwell, 555 Struble Road., at the foot of Mount Nittany, three miles east of the campus. There you can make cider in an antique cider press from apples you pick in the Maxwells' orchard.
Fleshcoat
Fleshcoat featuring Dr. E will kick off our celebration of peer tutoring history by helping us dance backward, forward, and all around in the Mars Room of Johnston Commons. Check out their CD Coat of Flesh on their Web site at http://www.giveusfreerecords.com/ (and leave a comment in the guestbook), at http://www.myspace.com/giveusfreerecords (make them a friend), on iTunes (write a review), or from your favorite music vendor (just injoy).
Dr. E, also known as Dr. Elaine Richardson, is now a full professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology in Ohio State University's School of Teaching and Learning. From 1998 through last summer, she was an associate professor of English and applied linguistics among Penn State's rhetoric and composition faculty. She is a friend of the writing center, and her friends at Penn State miss her and grieve at her leaving, though we wish her well at Ohio State. We are thrilled she will return to Penn State, along with Fleshcoat, to launch our conference celebration.
A blend of funk, soul, R&B, jazz, reggae, and gospel, Fleshcoat's music is about freedom through self knowledge. It's "Grown Folks' Music," according to the title of an especially dance-worthy song from Coat of Flesh. As Dr. E explains, "We are really spirit constrained in flesh. Our spirit wants to get out, to be free, but that freedom is fearful and unknown to many unless you know who you are. And that's what our music's about — that journey." ("Biography" http://www.giveusfreerecords.com/bio.html)
Dr. E received her B.A. and M.A. from Cleveland State University, and she received her Ph.D. studying with Dr. G at Michigan State University. She has authored the monographs Hiphop Literacies (2006) and African American Literacies (2003). She has co-edited the collections Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology (2007), African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2004), and Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations (2003).
The working titles of her two monographs in progress are PhD 2 PhD — Po Ho on Dope to Dr. E: The Literacy Narrative of Dr. Elaine Richardson and Dancehall and Hiphop: Black Discourses in Popular Culture.
At Penn State, she taught courses such as Theories and Concepts of Literacy; Composition Theory; Sociolinguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis; The Rhetoric of Cornel West and Bell Books; Freshman Composition; and Composition Practicum for Teachers of First-Year Writing.
Dr. Elaine Richardson is available for music, educational consulting, lecturing, and workshops. For her press kit, send an e-mail to ebr2singer@gmail.com.
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