The Department of Writing and Rhetoric is pleased to partner with the Southern Foodways Alliance to bring Barry Estabrook to the University of Mississippi on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 7:00pm at the Ford Center. Barry Estabrook is an investigative food journalist and former contributing editor to the late Gourmet magazine. His New York Times best-selling book, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, investigates the factory farms and slave labor of large-scale tomato production in Florida. Estabrook has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, TheAtlantic.com, Saveur, Men’s Health, and Reader’s Digest. His next book, Pig Tales, explores sustainable pork production and will be published in June 2015. This event is free and open to the public.

A presentation at the International Writing Centers Association conference in Orlando, FL by UM Oxford Writing Center director Brad Campbell, former assistant director Ben Lowerly, and consultant Taylor Brack presented was recently featured in a Sweeland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative review.

Read more about their presentation here: http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2015/01/18/year-in-review-iwca-2014-defining-differences-and-achieving-consensus-what-is-an-online-writing-center/

The University of Mississippi Writing Centers and the Department of Writing and Rhetoric are excited to announce the plenary speaker for MSWCA/TurtorCon 2015 on January 29-30 in Oxford, MS: Dr. Vershawn Young, a transdisciplinary scholar and teacher.

From the University of Waterloo:
[Vershawn Young] often integrates his training in multiple areas of arts and humanities into his published work and instruction. He has been writing about his sociolinguistic concept code-meshing, about African American English, about intercultural communication, about performances of masculinity, and about representations of race in art, film, and literature. He frequently collaborates with his colleagues and students and has authored or co-authored seven books.

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