Featured Speakers at NCETA 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012 at 7:03PM Keynote Address
Patricia Dunn
Patricia A. Dunn is a former high school teacher and two-year college instructor who now teaches methods of teaching English and composition to pre-service high school and middle school teachers, as well as courses in young adult literature at Stony Brook University in New York. She has three books: Learning Re-Abled: the Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies (1995), Talking, Sketching, Moving: Multiple Literacies in the Teaching of Writing (2001), and Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can Help Students Make Informed, Savvy Choices About Their Writing (with Ken Lindblom, 2011). She has also published a number of book chapters, as well as articles in English Journal, College Composition and Communication, Kairos, Rhetoric Review, and JAC: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, Politics.
Featured Speaker
Ken Lindblom
Associate Professor of English and Director of English Teacher Education
Editor, English Journal
Co-Author, Grammar Rants
2012 Educator of Excellence
Ragan-Rubin Award Winner
Joseph Bathanti
Professor of Creative Writing and Writer-in-Residence of Watauga Global Community, Appalachian State University
Award winning poet, novelist, and short story author
Outstanding English Teacher
Steve Fulton
Eighth-grade English teacher, Kannapolis Middle School
National Board Certified
Teacher Consultant, UNC-C Writing Project