CRDM 2013 Emerging Genres Symposium Keynote: Janet Giltrow
Channel: NC State Doctoral Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM)
Date: 2013-06-07

Janet Giltrow's "Bridge-to-Genre: Spanning Medial Change" keynote talk for the 2013 Symposium on Emerging Genres, Forms, Narratives—in New Media Environments. Held by the North Carolina State University program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media.

Janet Giltrow is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of British Columbia. Taking rhetorical and linguistics approaches to discourse studies, she has published extensively on literary and non-literary stylistics; genre theory; ideologies of language; and academic writing, including two textbooks (Academic Writing: Writing and Reading in the Disciplines, 3rd ed., 2001; Introduction to Academic Writing, 2nd ed., 2010). Her most recent publications include Genres in the Internet, ed. with D. Stein (2009), "Genre as Difference: The Sociality of Syntactic Variation" (2010), "'Curious Gentleman': The Hudson's Bay Company and the Royal Society, Business and Science in the Eighteenth Century" (2012), and "The Pragmatics of Genre on the Internet" (forthcoming, 2013). 

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Symposium site: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/sites/symposium/

CRDM site: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/