Dissing the Academy:Doing Queer Feminist Video Work

Casey Miles@soulsmilesQueer Theory PlaygroundMichigan State University

vimeo.com/channels/thegenderproject

Steve

“As we have suggested throughout this volume, the tectonic/paradigmatic shifts we have been describing point to a new era in rhetorical studies, one that is much more fluid, shifting, and expansive than before. This re-formed view encourages the use of patterns of observing, reading, analyzing, and interpreting that are dialogical, dialectical, reflective, and reflexive and that generate thereby multiple sources of information that have to be balanced in knowledge creation and knowledge use” (139).

Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies

Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch

“Queerness has the potential to stretch our sense of not only what can be composed, but how it can be composed. If queerness means more than just one more static representation of “diversity,” containable in its knowability, then it must move in multiple directions at once, embracing multi-modality, multi-genre texts, and even, when available or perhaps necessary, multi-media” (183).

“Queerness: An Impossible Subject for Composition” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 2011

Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes

KatieFemme: Doing it Wrong

“Mapping Dissertation Genre Change Through Analysis of Interdisciplinary Award-Winning Dissertations”

Kate PantelidesAcross the Disciplines, Spring 2014Special issue on graduate writing

Rhetoric & Writing at MSU(my program)

Rhetoric & Writing at MSU(my program)

• “major piece of research or scholarship”

•“typically a book-length work”

• Handbook refers to The Graduate School

• 3 year MFA degree

• MSU’s Plan B – no written thesis

• Thesis Project with written statement

• Public exhibition of project

Art, Art History & Design at MSU

• Dissertation, OR

• A series of public recitals and lecture-recitals, AND

• 1 lecture-recital accompanied with a “scholarly paper”

Doctor of Music at MSU

• Written dissertation

• Handbook defers to The Graduate School

Phd in English at MSUwith Film & Visual Culture Emphasis

• Electronic Thesis and Dissertations

• Focus on document requirements – font, table of contents, spacing, footnotes…

• No mention of multimedia

The Graduate School at MSU

Conclusions

• Written component• From artist’s statement to scholarly paper

• Public exhibition

• In addition to defense

Questions• What is the balance between video and text?

• How will length be measured?

• How much justification will I have to do IN the dissertation?

Conclusions for Rhetcomp

Let’s do this!