Big Beautiful Female Theory is poignant, sharply observed and full of stunning illustrations.īig Beautiful Female Theory by Eloise Grills | Published June 2022 | Affirmĭuring the festival, I attended a panel on ‘Body Politics’ featuring Eloise Grills and Kris Kneen in conversation with participating chair (and Canberra region icon) Kaya Wilson. Eloise led our group in a delightful morning of drawing exercises, sharing her approach to graphic memoir. I signed up to attend a session on ‘Graphic Life’ with author and illustrator Eloise Grills whose debut, Big Beautiful Female Theory, was recently shortlisted for the Stella Prize. This year, the Canberra Writers Festival offered a series of masterclasses alongside typical panel events. The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini | Published March 2023 | Fourth Estate Much like Saini’s other bestsellers Inferior and Superior: The Return of Race Science, The Patriarchs is bingeable, powerful and informative. Saini demonstrated the fragility of patriarchy over time, suggesting possible mechanisms through which we might be able to dismantle gender inequality. Journalist and author Angela Saini spoke with Louise Milligan about her new book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule. ![]() The first festival event I attended this year was ‘Power and Possibility’ at the National Museum of Australia. I was fortunate to attend a number of sessions across the full five-day lineup and have come away with a big bunch of reading recommendations to share. In her spare time, she serves on the Board of La Casa Roja’s Next Generation Leadership Network, as Chair of the Kronos Quartet Performing Arts Association-and works diligently if not particularly well in her communal organic garden.Posted on 20 September, 2023 This year’s Canberra Writers Festival marked a change in direction, with incoming artistic director Beejay Silcox shaping a broader, more inclusive program of events. Martin’s English Community site.Īndrea has given presentations and workshops on the changing nature and scope of writing and critical language awareness at scores of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council. She is also a regular contributor to the Bits teaching blog on Bedford/St. Martin's Handbook, The Everyday Writer, and EasyWriter the co-author (with John Ruszkiewicz) of Everything’s an Argument and (with John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters) of Everything’s an Argument with Readings and the co-author (with Lisa Ede) of Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice. ![]() ![]() She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. She holds honorary degrees from Middlebury College and The University of Ôrebro.Īndrea's scholarly interests include the contributions of women and people of color to rhetorical history, theory, and practice collaboration and collaborative writing, comics/graphic narratives translanguaging and style, and technologies of writing. in English at The Ohio State University (1977). degrees from the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. A frequent member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, Andrea earned her B.A. Prior to this appointment, she was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000) and, before that, Associate Professor and Director of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86) and Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College. ![]() 12 Writing to Make Something Happen in the Worldġ5 Integrating Sources and Avoiding PlagiarismĢ7 Prepositions and Prepositional PhrasesĪndrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English emerita and former Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, joined the Stanford faculty in 2000.
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