Tarez Samra Graban (Email phone: 812-855-4888)
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. English, Purdue University 2006
A.B. English & American Literature, Brown University 1993
A.B. Religious Studies, Brown University 1993

Professional Site: http://www.indiana.edu/~tgfolio/index.html

RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of rhetoric; Writing Program Administration, esp. composition pedagogy; Humor Studies, esp. women's irony; Archival theory and practice; Second-language writing, esp. rhetorical and linguistic intersections.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Emergent Taxonomies: Using ‘Tension’ and ‘Forum’ to Organize Primary Texts.” Forthcoming with Working in the Archives: Methods, Sources, Histories (Eds. Barbara L’Eplattenier, Lisa Mastrangelo, Wendy Sharer, Alexis Ramsey).

“Feminine Irony and the Art of Linguistic ‘Cooperation’ in Anne Askew’s Sixteenth-Century Examinacyons.” Rhetorica 25.4 (Fall 2007): 387-414.

“From ‘What Is’ to ‘What Is Possible’: Theorizing Curricular Document Revision as In(ter)vention and Reform.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, 28.3 (Spring 2005): 89-112. Co-authored with Kathleen J. Ryan.

“Theorizing Feminist Pragmatism as A Communicative Art for the TA Practicum ” Under review. Co-authored with Kathleen J. Ryan.

“Reclaiming Indiana’s Iron(ic) Woman in Helen Gougar’s Political Discourse.” Under review.

“Multivalent Composition and the Re-Invention of Expertise.” Under consideration for Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres in Student Compositions (Eds. Tracey Bowen, Carl Whithaus). Co-authored with Colin Charlton and Jonikka Charlton.

Recent Presentations and Invited Lectures
“Feminist Pragmatic Rhetoric as an Art of Writing Program Change.” 59th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, April 2-5, 2008. Co-authored with Kathleen J. Ryan (forthcoming).

“Genre, Architecture, and ‘Moves’: Three Concepts for Theorizing Meaning and Form in the L2 Writing Classroom.” 123rd Annual Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, December 27-30, 2007 (forthcoming).

“Re/locating Feminist Discourse in Women's Political Irony.” 6th Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, October 4­–6, 2007.

“A Linguistic-Rhetorical Examination of Irony in the Oppositional Discourse of Protestant Women.” 16th Annual Congress of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Strasbourg, France, July 24–28, 2007.

“Humoring the Female Pol: Authentic ‘Feminist’ Discourse in Linguistic/Rhetorical Examinations of Irony.” Invited Presentation. Women’s Studies Lecture Series, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, September 6, 2006.

“Feminist Pragmatism and Humane Writing Program Administration.” 2006 Conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, July 13-16, 2006. Co-authored with Kathleen J. Ryan.

“The ‘Little Woman’ at Lafayette: Recuperating Wit in Helen Gougar’s Politics and Persuasion.” 5th Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, October 6–8, 2005.

“Rethinking the ‘Cooperation’ Principle in Anne Askew’s Ironic Examinations, c. 1546.” 17th Annual International Society of Humor Studies Conference, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, June 13–16, 2005 (in absentia).

“Writing Program Administration as Rhetorical Performance.” 2005 Western States Rhetorics and Literacy Conference, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, October 20–22, 2005. Co-authored with Kathleen J. Ryan.

Writing the WPA Creation Myth: Theorizing Narratives as an Ethnomethodological Practice.” 2005 Conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, July 7–10, 2005.

RECENT AWARDS
Janice M. Lauer Dissertation Award (Purdue, 2006)
Honorable Mention, Grace L. Smart Award for Best Paper in Rhetoric and Composition (Purdue, 2005)
Library Fellowship Award for Information and Computer Literacy Integration into English 106/108 Curriculum (Purdue, 2004–2005)