[ATTW-L] Black Technical & Professional Communication, Mon 11/30, 1:30 PM

Fri Nov 6 22:03:22 UTC 2020

Dear Colleagues,

The Professional and Technical Writing Program at Virginia Tech is pleased
to announce an upcoming event:

*Black Technical and Professional Communication*

*A Virtual PanelMonday, November 30, 1:30–3 PM Eastern, Zoom*Registration
is required: bit.ly/3nRSFmc

A coalition of Black scholars in technical and professional communication
offer their perspectives on defining Black technical and professional
communication; advocating for the inclusion of Black perspectives in the
body of mainstream disciplinary scholarship and pedagogical practice; and
carving out the methodological, theoretical, and practical space that will
enable other Black scholars, teachers, and practitioners in the field to
see and do such work.

The featured speakers are members of the Conference on College Composition
and Communication (CCCC) Black Technical and Professional Communication
Task Force, who worked on this CCCC Black Technical and Professional
Communication Position Statement with Resource Guide
<https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/black-technical-professional-communication>:

*Dr. Kimberly C. Harper *is Assistant Professor of English at North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Director of the
Technical Writing concentration for the Department of English. Her research
examines social justice, race, and ethos within technical and professional
communication, and she writes about the rhetoric of maternal health, mental
health, and hip-hop discourse. She is the founder of The Space of Grace—a
monthly podcast focusing on Black maternal health and reproductive justice.

*Constance Haywood* is a third-year PhD student in the Writing, Rhetoric,
and American Cultures department at Michigan State University. Her research
interests include Black feminist rhetoric(s) & literacies, online
community-building, and digital research ethics.

*Dr. Natasha Jones* is Vice President for the Association of Teachers of
Technical Writing (ATTW) and Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and
American Cultures at Michigan State University. Dr. Jones is a technical
communication scholar and a co-author of the book Technical Communication
after the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (2019). She
has received national recognition for her work, being awarded the CCCC Best
Article in Technical and Scientific Communication (2020, 2018, and 2014)
and the Nell Ann Pickett Award (2017).

*Dr. Temptaous Mckoy*, Assistant Professor of English with a focus in
Technical and Professional Communication, and Co-coordinator of Graduate
Studies in the Department Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies at
Bowie State University. Her research focuses on redefining the field of TPC
and challenging it to be more inclusive of the (in)formal communicative and
learning practices as found in Black communities, such as HBCUs. She is an
HBCU alum (Elizabeth City State Univ.) and also a member of Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority, Inc.

*Dr. Donnie Johnson Sackey* is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Writing at
the University of Texas at Austin, and a senior researcher with Detroit
Integrated Vision for Environmental Research through Science and Engagement
(D•VERSE). His research centers on the dynamics of environmental public
policy deliberation, environmental justice, and environmental
community-based participatory research. He is currently working on a
monograph, Evasive Species: Communities, Invasion Ecology, Crisis, which
focuses on invasive species and environmental public policy deliberation.

*Dr. Cecilia D. Shelton* is Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Maryland. Drawing on Black feminist theory and praxis, her
research prioritizes the perspectives, goals, and experiences of Black
people (and other communities structured into the margins) as a way to
insist on more equitable solutions to contemporary social, political, and
organizational problems. Her work is published in Technical Communication
Quarterly, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and Praxis: A Writing
Center Journal among other places.

*Ja’La Wourman* is a Doctoral Candidate in the Writing, Rhetoric, and
American Cultures program at Michigan State University. Her dissertation
looks at the role of race and identity in Black women entrepreneurs
branding and content strategies on social networking sites. She is a
King-Chavez-Parks (KCP) Future Faculty Fellow and recipient of the 2020
Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarship for her work in Tanzania,
East Africa with the Tanzania Partnership Program at Michigan State
University.

This event is generously supported by a number of Virginia Tech units,
including the Black Cultural Center, the College of Liberal Arts and Human
Sciences, the Center for Humanities, the Composition Program, the Writing
Center, the Center for Communicating Science, the Center for Educational
Networks and Impacts (CENI), the Engineering Communications Program, the
Materials Science and Engineering Diversity Committee, and the Engineering
Communication Center.

More about the event is available at:
https://liberalarts.vt.edu/news/events/2020/10/black-technical-and-professional-communication.html

A flyer is also attached.

--
Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of English
Director of Professional and Technical Writing | Facebook
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Department of English at Virginia Tech
181 Turner Street NW (0112), Blacksburg, VA 24061
@jsanofranchini
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