This chapter traces the pedagogical and theoretical development of Writing with Video, a new advanced composition course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Throughout this discussion, the authors seek to underscore the importance of the institutional and infrastructural partnerships that were created between the Department of Art and Design and the Center for Writing Studies in realizing the Writing with Video initiative. While much of the scholarship on teaching composition with new media focuses on specific pedagogical implementations, the authors believe that this chapter introduces a new direction in the discussion—the necessity of forging interdisciplinary relationships with colleagues who have an expertise in the visual.
Category: 15) Writing With Video
Gossett
Katherine E. Gossett was the Teaching with Technology Award recipient in 2009. She is currently the assistant professor of rhetoric and new media at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She received her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a focus in writing studies. Her research interests include the canon of memory, medieval and visual rhetoric, technology and identity, and multimedia texts, literacies, and pedagogies.
Squier
Joseph Squier received a BS from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in psychology and a MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. He is currently an instructor at University of Illinois for Writing and Video, Artists and Computers, and the New Media graduate program. He initiated U of I’s Writing and Film program, which has students look at video as a rhetorical device. A recipient of many educators awards including the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Scholar Fellowship, an award recognizing a commitment to both scholarship and research.
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