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2009 Keynote Speaker Announced

Sustainability – as a metaphor, a design problem, a cultural imperative, and a social and ecological necessity – will become one of the new paradigms shaping much of our work as teachers and scholars.

We are pleased to announce that Derek Owens will serve as the keynote speaker for our fall conference. Derek Owens started teaching at St. John's University in 1994; before that taught in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard, the Experimental College at Tufts, and worked as an academic counselor in the Higher Education Opportunity Program at Siena College. In 2006 he created the Institute for Writing Studies, a multifaceted program containing the University's two Writing Centers, the First-Year Writing Program, and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. His teaching and research interests include composition pedagogy; Writing Program administration; ecocomposition and sustainability; nonfiction prose; place-based pedagogy; future studies; and experimental, open, and hybrid forms of writing.

He is also the author of Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation published as part of NCTE's Refiguring English Studies Series. The text is available online here.

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