Marshall W. Kitchens
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Office: 228 Briggs Hall
Phone: 313-993-1082
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Office Hours (Fall 2006)
MWF: 11:00 - 1:00
TuTh: 01:00 - 3:00

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Research

Doctoral Dissertation

M. Kitchens. Literacy, Technology, and Justice in Postindustrial Detroit: Rhetorical Education for the 21st Century. Defended 7 April 2001. Wayne State University. Committee Members: Richard Marback (Chair), Ruth Ray, Jerry Herron. Outside Reader: Cynthia Selfe, Michigan Technological University.

Articles published or in press

Kitchens, Marshall and Danielle Devoss. Writing Culture. New York: Longman. Forthcoming.

Kitchens, Marshall and Sandra Dukhie. "Speech-to-text: Peer Tutoring, Technology, and Students with Cognitive Impairments." In Rebecca Day Babcock, Sharifa Daniels, James Inman, and Beth Rapp Young (Eds.) Writing Centers and Disability. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Forthcoming.

Kitchens, Marshall. "Student Inquiry in New Media: Critical Media Literacy and Video Games." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Technology. 10.2 (Winter 2006). http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.2/coverweb.html

Larkin, Lindsey and Marshall Kitchens. "The Transgendered and Transgressive Student: Rhetoric and Identity in Trans-Queer Ethnography." Web Text. Computers and Composition Online. Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies: Metonymy and material online. Fall 2004. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/kitchenslarkin/index.html

Research in progress

Kitchens, Marshall. Ethnographic Identities: The Student Writer as Ethnographer. Content analysis article.

Kitchens, Marshall. "Real Bodies and Virtual Spaces: Face-to-face Contact and Online Learning in First Year Writing." Action Teacher research article.

Kitchens, Marshall. Clippings: A Reflection on Southern Culture, Technology and Narrative Ideology."Creative nonfiction audio-visual essay.

Oral presentations; performances; exhibitions

2005-2006

"PowerPoint and Beyond: Supporting and Evaluating Student Multimedia Projects." TechRhet Committee Presentation. Department of Rhetoric, Communication, & Journalism, Oakland University. March 27, 2006.

"Teaching Online." Orientation for Recipients of Online Teaching Stipends. e-Learning and Instructional Support, Oakland University. March 10, 2007.

Opening Remarks: Faculty. Student Technology Center Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies. Oakland University. September 14, 2005. (invited)

2004-2005

"Virtual Ethnicity: Student Researchers and Video Games." Computers and Writing Conference 2005. Palo Alto, CA. June 2005.

"Real Bodies and Virtual Spaces: Face-to-face Contact and Online Learning in First Year Writing." Winter Colloquium. Department of Rhetoric, Communitcation & Journalism, Oakland University. February 16, 2005.

2003-2004

Diversity Workshop. AmeriCorps. Oakland University. May 2004.

"Student Writers and the Digital Divide." Tri-University Conference. Wayne State University. February 2004.

2002-2003

"Multiculturalism and Online Learning." Summer Institute for Computers in Writing Intensive Classrooms. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. June 2003.

"Ethnography and Authorial Identity." Fall Colloquium. Department of Rhetoric, Communication & Journalism, Oakland University. November 2002.

"Ethnographic Identities: The Student Writer as Ethnographer." The Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2002.

2001-2002

"Ethnographic Research in Composition Studies: From Print to Hypertext." Computers and Writing Conference 2002. Normal, IL. May 2002.

"Emerging into Generation Dot Com." Computers and Writing Conference 2002. Normal, IL. May 2002.

"Teaching with Technology." Rhetoric Program Spring Seminar. Oakland University. May 2002.

"At the Margins of Generation Dot Com." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. March 2002.

"Computer Use Among 1st Generation Students at Oakland University: Practical Concerns for Integrating Technology in the Writing Classroom." Midwestern Modern Language Association Convention, Computer Research Section. Cleveland, OH. November 2001.

2000-2001

"Local Memoirs and the Technologies of Reproduction: Service Learning and Community Elders in the Virtual Classroom." The Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Louisville, KY. October 2000.

1999-2000

"Web-based Instruction for the Writing Classroom." Half-day workshop. Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention. Minneapolis, MN. April 2000.

"Surfing the City: Literacy and the Posturban Cyberscape." Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention. Minneapolis, MN. April 2000.

"Computerworks: Building Awareness through Technology." Michigan College English Association Conference. Mott Community College, Flint, MI. September 1999.

1998-1999

"Rhetoric, Technology, and Difference: Reading and Writing in the World Wide Arena." Pennsylvania State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. College Park, PA. July 1999.

"Icon and Iconoclasm in American Culture: Marilyn Manson, Antichrist Superstar, and the Celebrity Host." Disruptive Disciplines: A Joint Conference of the Michigan State University American Studies Graduate Student Association and the Midwest Society for Ethnomusicology. East Lansing, MI. April 1999.

"Democracy, Technology, and the Visibility of Difference." Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention. Atlanta, GA. April 1999.

"The Tele-virtual Body." The Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. October 1998.

1997-1998

"The (Ab)Use of Adjunct Labor." Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention. Chicago, IL. April 1998.

"Rhetoric, Power, and Ideology in Children's Television." Pennsylvania State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. College Park, PA. July 1997.