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2019-2020 Humanities Center Brown Bag Series
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
12:30PM—1:30PM
Rm. 2339
Faculty Administration Building
Valerio’s Wall: Visual Rhetoric,Vulnerability,
and Basic Writing
In basic writing curricula at the university level, the literacy narrative is a common assignment in which
undergraduate students tell a story about their relationship to reading and writing, in hopes of
situating themselves at the beginning of the course and opening a space for self reflection and
metacognition as they grow as writers and readers. While the literacy narrative has important resources
and affordances, it may have significant drawbacks in that students with an overwhelmingly negative relationship to print based literacy may find the
experience of narrating it upsetting and counterproductive. In this lecture, I will argue that by engaging visual rhetoric and literacy at the beginning of the student's academic career, we can work around
their potentially negative affective and emotional relationships to reading and writing, and open a space
for them to engage their own rhetorical agency beyond print based or even discursive forms of
communication. Drawing on Ralph Cintron's book Angel's Town and his discussion of how a young man
labeled "learning disabled" was able to use visual literacy to make sense of his world, I will argue that we
can better serve students in basic writing courses by providing them with a more diverse and capacious
sense of their own rhetorical capabilities.
Walter Lucken IV
English
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Walter Lucken IV is a doctoral student studying Rhetoric and Composition at Wayne State University and Vice President of Graduate Employees Organizing Committee, the labor union which represents graduate student workers at that institution. Along with trauma informed pedagogy and related issues, his research interests are basic writing, critical theory, and aesthetics. Alongside his work teaching composition courses at Wayne State University, he organizes courses and events with Hamtramck Free School, and facilitates a writing workshop at a local prison. In his free time, he enjoys watching boxing and world cinema.
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