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We are pleased to have Dr. Victor Villanueva as our keynote speaker for the conference. Dr. Villanueva is Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts at Washington State University, where he has been Director of Composition, Department Chair, and Associate Dean. He is a former chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communications. His publications have been recognized by two national awards. In 1999, he was named Rhetorician of the Year. Among his other honors have been two teaching awards and being designated by students as the English department’s most supportive faculty member. He has authored or edited five books, nearly forty articles or chapters in books, and he has delivered over ninety public speeches throughout the country. His concern is always with the connections between language and racism. His conference presentation, "When Racism Enters Writing," will focus on the rhetorics of the new racism, and as such, will speak directly to the conference’s focus on pedagogy and politics.