Phone Interview

by Dr Davis on February 22, 2010

kingwood-campus-collegeThis morning I received a call at my home (about twenty minutes after I left) telling me that CC5 (or is it CC6?) wants to do a phone interview on Thursday. They called my cell phone at 12:40 and left the same message.

Since I was at work all day, I got the cell message first. I called immediately (2:50) and got no answer. I did leave a message. Then I called again at 3:20 and at 4. No one was there.

So I guess I will call again in the morning.

I am thrilled about the interview. I would like to know which position it is though. I applied for three at that school and (as far as I can tell) they are very different.

If it is position 1, most likely, they’ve had my stuff for 5 weeks. That’s actually moving pretty fast. If it is position 3, I’ll faint. Because they have only had my stuff for 5 days. Which means that it is for position 1. Which means I need to review the Mexican-American reading list.

One weird thing: They asked for an academic résumé. I gave them a CV. I hadn’t realized that. Oh well. I guess they liked it anyway.

Unfortunately I also said I could brush up on my Spanish skills, which I certainly could. I learn very fast and Rice has a course for this starting next month. But my skills are very rusty. I can… read comments on Facebook and that is about it right now. However, I do believe I could brush up before next fall and be able to teach a book that is in Spanish, if they wanted that.

Update: I think it is actually CC5. I work at CC1. I did work at CC2. I applied at CC3 and CC4. This is CC5. It’s just hard to read. Maybe I’ll call it CC6 anyway.

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CFP: Rhetoric

by Dr Davis on February 22, 2010

Transforming Rhetoric: Discovery and Change

Keynote Speaker:
Maureen Daly Goggin, Arizona State University
“The Legacy of Richard Young:
Embodying and Theorizing Rhetoric as Discovery and Change”

October 22-23, 2010
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Of particular interest are presentations that encourage audience participation and discussion, and contribute closely to the conference theme and to questions concerning aspects of the following:

Border rhetorics
New literacies
Critical pedagogy
Activist rhetoric
New media
Service learning
Cross-cultural rhetorics
Community literacy
Rhetoric of race
Digital, visual, and material rhetorics
Rhetoric and agency
The academy and civic engagement
Politics of writing instruction

Please submit:

A cover page that includes the title, speaker/s, address/es, email/s, and phone number/s, along with a brief 25-50 word description of your presentation.
4 copies of a one-page abstract (per speaker) prepared for blind review that describes the proposed talk and identifies the format for the presentation:
20 minute paper, which we will combine with similar proposals to form a 90 minute panel.
90 minute panel, limited to 3 speakers.

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