9:30am - 10:45am Lindner 206
Asian-American Rhetorician and Linguist, Dr. LuMing Mao, will lead a workshop on March 4 in Lindner 206, at 9:30 am. This event is part of the Togetherness in Difference Lecture Series and is funded through a College of Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence grant and through the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.
On Friday, March 4 from 9:30am until 10:45am, Dr. Mao will offer a short faculty development session that applies his current research to the classroom. In short, this pedagogy talk aims to explore ways in which we can productively apply language diversity and knowledge of language difference to teaching and to the teaching of writing. It will also discuss the issue of standards. What to do with standards? What is the role of Standard English, which is always privileged and prescribed? How can we see difference in language not as error or barrier but as resource or literacy tools for generating meaning and producing understanding?
Refreshments will be provided.
If you would like to attend the March 4 faculty development session in Lindner 206, at 9:30 am, please email Michelle Trim mtrim@elon.edu with your RSVP by Friday, Feb 25.
Dr. Mao will also be giving a public lecture in Yeager at 7pm on March 3. His talk will focus on Asian-American rhetoric as a “rhetoric of becoming.”
Dr. Mao is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Miami University of Ohio. He is also the director of their Asian and Asian-American Studies program. He has published articles in a wide variety of venues. His recent book, Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (2006), provided the title for this lecture series.