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JASON GIEGER, English,
presented a paper entitled
“Learning from Shakespeare and
Charles II: Thomas Davies’
Dramatic Miscellanies (1784)
and its Advice to the Prince
Regent” at the Group for Early
Modern Cultural Studies conference
in Philadelphia on Nov. 16. CSUS Bulletin - February 25 - March 3, 2002

Agosta, Lucien L.

  • May 2, 1992, "Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Aesthetics of the Children's Picture Book," CSUS English Club (with Ron Tanaka).
  • November 15, 1989, "Diversity, Abundance, and the Conquering of Time: How I Became a Reader for Life," CSUS English Department Literary Influences and Affections Series.
  • July 15, 1988, "The Collaboration of Texts and Illustrations in Children's Picture Books, California Literature Project, CSUS.
  • May 17, 1986, "Howard Pyle's Illustrations as Shorthand Icons," at the Children's Literature Association Conference, Kansas City, Missouri.
  • November 17, 1984, "Making the Ideal Real: Adapting the CCC Guidelines for Evaluating Composition Instruction," at the National Council of Teachers of English meeting, Detroit, Michigan.
  • March 30, 1984, TVBridgjng the Gap between Theory and Pedagogy: The Second-Generation Process Texts," at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York.
  • May 1983, "Formula Fiction and Children's Literature: Thornton Waldo Burgess and Frances Hodgson Burnett," at the Children's Literature Association meeting, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • March 18, 1983, "Implementing the CCC Guidelines for Evaluating the Teaching of Writing," at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Illinois.
  • March 19, 1982, "The Transition to a Process Approach to Writing Instruction," at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, California.
  • March 17, 1978, "Natural Supernaturalism: Poem and Painting in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Depiction of Women," at the American Academy of Religion
Buckley, Linda C.
  • "Culture, Ideology, and Second Language Teaching," Presentation to the Linguistics Colloquium. 5/98. UC, Davis.
  • "The Language-Culture Connection: Intercultural Communication in ESL." presentation given at CATESOL Conference. 4/97. Fresno, California.
  • Visiting Scholar, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 12/27/96 to 1/24/97.
  • Presented a three-week TESOL teacher training course to Vietnamese ESL teachers from NUV and the surrounding Saigon area.
  • "Green English: Developing an ESP Program on Environmental Awareness." CATESOL Poster Session. San Diego, California 4/94.
Castellano, Olivia G.
  • POETRY READINGS AND PRESENTATIONS:
    • at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento City College, Sierra College, American River College, University of Oregon at Eugene, San Jose State University, De Anza College, Los Medanos College, Alameda County Office of Education, Elk Grove Unified School District, Sacramento City Unified School District, San Juan Unified School District, Santa Clara University, D-Q University.
    • The Teacher of Basic Writing as Mediator/Trickster between Student's World and Academic Discourse," Panel Presentation. NCTE- CCCC Convention. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. March, 1996.
  • MORE RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
    • "The Revival of Metrics as Description of Oral Signatures in Rap and Calo,"(in collaboration with Dr. Chauncey Ridley)-accepted for presentation in "Multiple Literacies in the 21st Century"(conference direction, Dr. Sheree Meyer)-to be held in October, 1999.

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Dunstan, Angus
  • "An Introduction to Postcolonial Literature," CATE Convention, Burbank,February 1999
  • "Grade The Learning, Not The Writing," (with Cherryl Smith), in The Theory
    • and Practice of Grading, Fran Zak and Chris Weaver (eds), SUNY, 1998
  • "The Heart and The Mind in the English Classroom," NCTE Convention, Detroit, November 1998
  • "On Not Disturbing Our Students," California English. Fall 1995 "The Missing Guest," Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference, Las Vegas, April 1994
  • "Collaborative Learning: Applying the Principles to any Classroom," (with Cherryl Smith and Sheryt Fontaine), College Teaching and Learning Exchange Conference, San Jose, October 1993
Heckathorn, Amy C.
  • "The Revival of Rhetoric in the 1960s." Presented at the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference, New York, New York, November, 1998.
  • "Keeping Writing the Focus." Presented at the Writing Program Administrator's Conference, Tucson, Arizona, July, 1998.
  • "Social Construction Theory and Karen Burke LeFevre's Invention as a Social Act." Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June, 1998.
  • "How Can Social Construction Theories Help Us Effectively Use Literature in the Writing Classroom?" Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1998.
  • "Walter Ong's Oral ily and Literacy: Laying a Theoretical Foundation for Composition Theory." Presented at the Conference of College Teachers of English, South Padre Island, Texas, April, 1997.
  • "(De)Constructing a Working Class Pedagogy." Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, March, 1997.
Helt, Marie E.
  • 2000 Was Truscott right? Paper accepted for presentation at the 2000 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 11-14 (with Dana Ferris).
  • Using rap music to teach American language and culture to adolescents. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2000 California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL) Conference, Sacramento, California, April 7-9.
  • 1999 Gender and age patterns in the use of pragmatic markers. Paper presentation at the 1999-American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Stamford, Connecticut, March 9.
  • 1998 Discourse markers in textbooks and in use. Paper presentated at the 1998 TESOL Conference, Seattle, Washington.
  • A multi-dimensional comparison of British and American spoken English. Paper presented at the 1998 AAAL Conference, Seattle, Washington.
  • A corpus-based analysis of well, actually and like. Paper presented at the Rice University Linguistics Colloquium, Houston, Texas,
  • 1997 A corpus-based discourse marker approach: Applying the findings. Paper presented at the 1997 TESOL Conference, Orlando, Florida.
  • A corpus-based approach to building discourse marker profiles. Paper presented at the 1997 AAAL Conference, Orlando, Florida.
  • 1996 Linguistic variation in American English. Lecture presented at the 1996 French Ministry of Education Program for Teachers of English, Flagstaff, AZ.
  • Using lexical association patterns to identify discourse markers. Paper presented at the 1996 -Language, Text and Society Symposium, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.
  • Discourse connectives to juxtaposition: A Relevance account of procedural devices. With E. Konrad and S. Foster-Cohen. Paper presented at the 1996 AAAL Conference, Chicago, Ill.
  • Using lexical and grammatical association patterns to identify discourse markers. Paper presented in the Colloquium on Corpus-based Perspectives on Discourse at the 1996 AAAL Conference, Chicago, Ill.
  • 1995 A Relevance Theoretic approach to older children's use of discourse markers. With S. Foster-Cohen. Paper presented at the 20th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
  • Like, how do children use like?: A Relevance Theoretic approach. With S. Foster-Cohen. Paper presented at the 27th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Palo Alto, CA.
  • 1994 Evaluating classroom language tests: Are your tests measuring what you think they are? With C. Young. Paper presented at the 1994 Arizona TESOL Conference, Glendale, AZ.

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Jamison, John F.
  • Public Lecture: "Jonathan Edwards," California State University, Sacramento; December, 1978.
  • Special Session: "Recent Developments in Jonathan Edwards Research," organized and moderated session at the Modern Language Association Convention; Huston, 1980.
  • Special Session: "Marxist Criticism: Feminist Marxist Articulations," organized and moderated session, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast; Portland, 1988.
  • Play: "The Reverend Mr. Edwards," a play in seven scenes for the theatre; 1989. Currently being revised.
  • Special Session on Poetry and Theory, Soundings Conference, University of Oregon, 1992.
  • Public Lecture, "Recent Trends in Cultural Studies," Critical Inscriptions Series, CSUS English Department.
  • Special Session on Sharon Doubiago and Jack Kerouac, Western Literature Association, Sacramento, 1999.
McKinney, Joshua B.
  • "Schooling the Imagination: Rethinking Creativity in Academe," Conference on Teaching and Learning, California State University, Sacramento; Sacramento, CA, October 1999.
  • "The International Library of Poetry as Teaching Tool," Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Albany, NY, April 1999.
  • "Parody in the Creative Writing Classroom." Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Portland, OR, March 1998.
  • "Saunter," Reconcilable (In)differences: The Marriage between Writers and Theorists Conference, University of Denver, Denver, CO, April 1997.
  • Selections from Pennutations of the Gallery, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 1997.
  • Selections from "Abolitionist," Southwest Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, March 1996.
  • "The Sestina: Predetermined Spontaneity," Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 1996.
  • "Going Anywhere: Roots, Errantry, and Exile in Derek Walcott's The Fortunate Traveller," Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, FL, January 1995.
  • "Critical Writing in the Creative Writing Class," Conference on Teaching Excellence, Orlando, FL, February 1994.
  • "L = A = N G = U = A = G = E Exercises in the Poetry Workshop," Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ, April 1994.
  • "Pardoning the Pardoner: Shop Talk and Vulnerability in The Pardoner's Tale," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Breckenridge, CO, April 1991.
Meindl, Robert J.
  • "William Golding's Inheritors and Beowulf at UC Davis 10/15/66 and CSUS May 67
  • "The Vinland Sagas and the Vinland Map," at Sons of Norway 10/12/68
  • "Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath," on KXPR Fall 1981
  • Technical Director to Theatre el Dorado presentation of the Canterbury Tales in Placerville, Spring 1983
  • Numerous appearances at local high schools to speak on topics ranging from freshman composition (Rancho Cordova) to Old English (St. Francis) to civil rights unrest in New Orleans (Rio Americano)

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Meyer, Sheree L.
  • "Reading Project X: Tracing Movement from Theory to Praxis." Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago. December 30, 1999.
  • "Coalition-Building: Addressing Literacy in the 21st Century." Multiple Literacies in the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference, CSU Sacramento. October 22, 1999.
  • "Learning Communities: A Panel Discussion." Conference on Teaching and Learning, CSU Sacramento. October 1, 1999.
  • "If We Build It, Will They Come? An Interactive Panel Session." Transforming Campuses Through Learning Communities Conference, Seattle, WA. May 22, 1999.
  • "Through the Looking Glass: Disorienting Reflections in the Teaching Seminar." NCTE Practice, Theory, Reflection and Action: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and English Studies. Seattle, WA. June 20, 1998.
  • "Teaching Theory & Theorizing Teaching: The 'Why,' 'What, and 'How' of Literary Studies." CSUS Colloquium Series, Fall 1997. December 4, 1997.
  • "Lear and Hamlet at the Crossroads: Power, Subjection and Subjectivity." California State University Shakespeare Symposium. CSU, Dominguez Hills. November 22, 1997.
  • "So, What's this Fish Story About? Reading 'Thinking as a Hobby' as Literature." English Council Spring 1997 Meeting. Burlingame, CA. April 11, 1997.
  • "Queering Combative Sports: The Intrusion of the Female Body," The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Pittsburgh, PA. Sept. 28, 1996.
  • "Teaching the Essential Shakespeare," Fourth Annual Teaching the Renaissance Symposium. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Feb. 3, 1996.
  • "In the Back Door: A Course in the Theories of Teaching Literature." Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Literature, Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, December 29, 1995.
  • "Defending the Self/Defending the Other: A Re-Reading of Sidney's Apology for Poetry." Renaissance Conference of Southern California. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. May 12, 1995.
  • "Fighting Over the Body: What's the Matter With/In Feminist Theory." CSUS Critical Inscription Series. March 23, 1995.
  • "Cooperation and Collaboration: Who's teaching who(m)?'' CSUS Faculty Professional Development Teaching and Learning Roundtable Series. March 16, 1995.
  • "Teaching and Learning Shakespeare: Multiple Voices," OSU Shakespeare Symposium, CSU Fresno, December 3, 1994.
  • "Rapprochements: Composition Theory and Literary Theory." Pacific Coast Writing Centers Association Annual Conference, CSU Chico, October 23, 1993.
  • "Cordelia's Ghost: Shakespeare's Haunting of Atwood's Cat's Eye. Rocky Mountain MLA Convention, October 15, 1993.
  • "The Poet as Bereaved Parent: Ben Jensen, Katherine Philips, and Anne Cecil." RMMLA Convention, October 19, 1991.
  • "The Public Statements and Private Losses of Ben Jonson and Katherine Philips." South Central Renaissance Conference, April 5, 1991.
  • "'The strife of tongue and the confusion of body': Confusion as a Pedagogical Practice." Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Literature Program & Society for Critical Exchange Theory/Pedagogy Conference, September 22, 1990.
  • "(M)other Readers and Renaissance Authors: Unfaithful Re-Conceptions of Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Sidney's Arcadia." SAMLA Convention, November 11, 1989.
  • "Refusing to Play the Con Game: The Illusion of Mastery in the Reading/Writing of Texts." Women's Voices: Commonality and Difference Conference. October 14,1989.
  • "Making her Scene/Seen: Representation and the Appropriation of the Feminine in Spenser and Sidney." Mid-Atlantic National Women's Studies Conference, October 16, 1988.
  • "In the Name of the (M)other: Sexual and Textual Impropriety in Sidney's Arcadia.'' Central Renaissance Conference, April 15, 1988.

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Miles, Robert
  • Talk at CSUS - Spring, 1986 - "COnfessions of a Romantic Immoralist"
Olmstead, Robert T.
  • April 29, 1996: Talk to French IV Class, Rio Americano High School: "The Lost Generation, the 1920's, and Paris."
  • April 18 1996: Critical Inscription Series, Department of English "Going All the Way: (Me)n and Feminist Literary Theory"
  • December 20, 1997: Commencement Speaker at Commencement for the College of Arts and Letters
  • April 28, 1999: Key Note Speaker, Annual Dinner of The Scouting Society of the Golden Empire Council, Boy Scouts of America
Palmer, Linda
  • 1999, "Native America Meets 'The West': Showdown on Sacred Ground," presented at the 34th Annual Western Literature Association Conference, fall 1999.
  • 1996, "The Center Holds: Traditional Storyteffing in the Poetry of Simon Ortiz and Joy Harjo," presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on The Emerging Literature of the Southwest in El Paso, Texas: A number of professional talks at colleges, libraries, writing conferences, and a number of writing workshops.

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Smith, Cherryl
  • "Reading for Pleasure or for School: The Heart and the Mind in the Literature Classroom," co-presenter, Angus Dunstan, National Council of Teachers of English, Annual Convention, Detroit, 1997
  • "Collaborative Learning: Applying the Principles to Any Classroom," co-presenters, Angus Dunstan and Sheryl I. Fontaine. Teaching and Learning Exchange National Conference, San Jose, CA, October, 1993
  • "Building a Repertoire of Response," co-presenter, Maureen Jung. Auburn Writers' Group, Auburn, CA, July, 16, 1992
  • "Creative Writing/Composition: What's the Difference?" Winter Writing Project, UC Santa Barbara, January 15, 1992
  • "Developing an Interdisciplinary Curriculum for grades 8-12," co-presenter, Jean Parr. The Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque, NM, August 12-14, 1991
  • "Teacher Research and M.A. Programs in Composition," co-presenter, Angus Dunstan. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Boston, 1991
  • "Feminist Awakenings in an NEH-Funded Literature Institute for Teachers," co-presenter, Irene Papoulis. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention, Atlanta, November, 1990
  • "Recent Research in Composition," Winter Writing Project, UC Santa Barbara, January 8, 1990 -"Metaphor and Emily Dickinson," Literature Institute for Teachers, UC Santa Barbara, August
    • 13, 1989
  • "Writing Response Groups: Elementary School Through College," co-presenter, Lois Brandts. South Coast Writing Project, Summer Open Program, UC Santa Barbara, July 12, 1989
  • "Student-Centered Writing Instruction," CSU Northridge Winter Writing Conference, February 19, 1989
  • "What is Basic About Basic Writing?" Winter Writing Project, UC Santa Barbara, January 17, 1989
  • "Poetry Writing in High School," Oxnard Union High School District, Oxnard, CA, December 1, 1988
  • "Teaching Basic Writing," South Coast Writing Project Summer Institute, UC Santa Barbara, July 13, 1988
  • "Teaching Writing Processes, K-8," Ventura Unified Schools District, Ventura, CA, October 21-23, 1987
  • "Methods of Writing Assessment," Massachusetts Bay Community College. English Department, Wellesey, MA, April 22, 1987
  • "Designing and Presenting Writing Project In-services," Rhode Island Writing Consortium, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, February 14, 1987
  • "Saying 'So What?' to Lesson Plans: Curriculum for English Classes," Winter Writing Project, UC Santa Barbara, January 12, 1987
  • "Collaborative Learning and the Writing Classroom," Harvard University, School of Education, Human Development Colloquium, December, 1986
  • Writing Curriculum Development, K-12, Planning Workshop," Sweetwater County Schools District, Rock Springs, WY, August 11-12, 1986
  • "Empowering Students to Write," co-presenter, Lois Brandts. Ventura County Schools District, Migrant Education Staff Development Program, Ventura, CA, June, 1985
  • "Writing Process Workshop for Rural Development Leaders," Rural Development Leadership Network, UC Davis, May 2-3, 1985
  • "Teaching Basic Writing at UCSB, Queens College, and Harvard," University of California, Santa Barbara, English Department Lecture series, January, 1985

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Wanlass, Susan
  • "A Liminal Look at the Shifting of Social/Sexual Identities and Setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night" accepted for presentation at the International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, Nice, France, June 27-July 4, 2000.
  • Chair, Ethnic Literature Session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Oct. 1997.
  • "Derek Walcott's Dream Play and the Rhetoric of a Double Vision," presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Ethnic Studies Session, 1995.
  • "The Fitzgerald-Eliot Connection," paper presented at International Fitzgerald! Hemingway Conference, Paris, France, 1994.
  • Chair, "William Carlos Williams: A Centennial Celebration," Modern Language Association, December 1983.
  • "Poetry and Comedy: The Light Verse of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and John Peale Bishop," Modern Language Association, Dec. 1982.

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