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Florianne "Bo" Jimenez, PhD candidate in the Composition and Rhetoric program, will give a talk titled, "Echoing and Resistant Imagining: Cultural Rhetorics and Decoloniality in Filipino Student Writing" in an upcoming webinar for the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCCs). This webinar, "Queerness, Cultural Rhetorics, and Decoloniality: Expanding the Conversation(s)" includes four recipients of the 2020 CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award and the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. Jimenez was honored with one of the prestigious Scholars for the Dream Travel Award earlier this year.

To describe her talk, Jimenez writes, "I’ll be presenting my research on Filipino student writing during the American colonization of the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century. Using theories from cultural rhetorics and decolonial thinking, I offer an overview of the transnational discourses on race, class, and language that collided at the colonial schoolhouse and analyze how student writers negotiated, resisted, and subverted US colonial ideology through writing in English."

This webinar will take place Friday, November 13, 2020 from 1:00–2:30 PM ET. The presentations will be followed by an audience-driven Q&A session as well as networking time. A CART interpreter will be present during the webinar and the recording will be made available online after the event. RSVP today!