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I just wanted to put forward two more names for possible inclusion on our Executive Board. <BR>
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The first is my colleague and regular collaborator <B>Donna Dunbar-Odom</B>. She came to composition studies by way of basic writing in the field. She taught basic writing and directed the writing center at a regional campus in Indiana in the 1980s. She knew there had to be something more to teaching basic writing than grammar drills and sentence-to-paragraph exercises. So she attended CCCC and ended up at a panel on basic writing/reading connections with Mariolina Salvatore, David Bartholmoe, and Anthony Petrosky. She was wowed, as you can imagine. <BR>
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So she chose to enter the PhD program at Pitt to study with Barthomae and Salvatore, both of whom ended up on her dissertation committee. <BR>
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As she put it when I asked if she’d be interested in throwing her hat in on this, “Absolutely! I’d be honored. Them’s my roots!”<BR>
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More on Donna can be found at <a href="http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/dunbar-odom.asp?menuName=people&pageName=faculty">http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/dunbar-odom.asp?menuName=people&pageName=faculty</a><BR>
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The other is our new Director of the Writing Center and the Basic Writing Program (beginning Fall 2009): Tabetha Adkins. She’s doing some fascinating work in new media and, especially, Amish literacies (the subject of her dissertation). Lots of really exciting work on ethics in ethnography and fabulously interesting ways to integrate the student’s lived experiences into the composition classroom. At University of Louisville, she studied basic writing with Bruce Horner and Min Zhan-Lu. She’ll have tons to add as well, especially as she takes over our basic writing program here at A&M-Commerce. <BR>
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Her vita is available online at <a href="http://tabethaadkins.com/main/page_curriculum_vitae.html">http://tabethaadkins.com/main/page_curriculum_vitae.html</a><BR>
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What cha think? Can we add these two members to our crew? Not only are they both wicked smart and committed to at-risk students. They are both SO much fun! <BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
Shannon<BR>
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Shannon Carter<BR>
Associate Professor of English<BR>
Texas A&M-Commerce</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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