UWC After Hours Hosts "Writing Beyond the Boundaries"
The Undergraduate Writing Center's upcoming After Hours panel will feature writers whose work transcends boundaries of genre, media, form, and audience. Panelists will discuss their approaches to verbal, written, and online communication, on subjects which are especially difficult to capture in language, such as the occult, religion, music, and sound.
The event will be held at Follett's Intellectual Property Bookstore (2402 Guadalupe) on Friday, November 9, at 4:00 PM.
Featured Speakers:
- Joshua G. Gunn
- Russell Cobb
- Doug Freeman
- Melanie Haupt
Joshua G. Gunn (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2002) conducts research at the intersection of rhetorical and cultural studies. His latest published research has focused on the role of theological form, from the apocalyptic, occult, and paranormal to the mundane religiosity of the "theory wars" in the humanities. His teaching interests include courses in rhetorical theory and criticism, rhetoric and religion, and rhetoric and popular music. He recently published a book, Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century (2005) with the University of Alabama Press, and has also published in a variety of journals.
Russell Cobb is currently on a writing fellowship with the Houston Press, for which he works on long-form, narrative-driven journalism, or what used to be called "New Journalism." He received his PhD in August 2007 from UT-Austin's Program in Comparative Literature and also completed a doctoral portfolio in Cultural Studies. He holds a Master's Degree in Spanish from UT-Austin. Cobb has been a freelance writer since 2001, when he completed an internship at The Nation magazine. During his last two years in Austin, he wrote a book review column for the Austin American-Statesman called "The Real Word."
Doug Freeman is a writer for the Austin Chronicle and Austin Sound and a graduate student in the Department of English at UT-Austin. Freeman has also written music reviews for the Daily Texan and Houston Press and is a disc jockey at KVRX in Austin.
Melanie Haupt is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UT-Austin, in addition to her work as a freelance music critic for the Austin Chronicle. She is writing her dissertation on narratives of cooking and eating in diasporic Indian women's writing. Haupt is also interested in the rhetoric of food and eating in American popular culture.