|
Announcing the African American Women's Language Conference '08, March 7-8, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas. Sponsored by Dr. Sonja L. Lanehart, Brackenridge Endowed Chair, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Panel topics include Variation in AAWL including Caribbean Languages, AAWL and Racial Identity, AAWL in/and Literature, AAWL in Education, Society, and Popular Culture.
Featured speakers include Grisel Acosta, Jennifer Bloomquist, Anne Charity, Renée Price, Charles DeBose, Jessica DeCuir-Gundy, Adrienne Dixson, Shelome Gooden, Lisa Green, Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Joycelyn Moody, Marcyliena Morgan, Iyabo Osiapem, Terri Pantuso, Jacquelyn Rahman, Elaine Richardson, Angela Rickford, Arthur Spears, Denise Troutman, and Alicia Wassink.
The website is currently under construction, but should be up and running by December 1, 2007. For more information regarding the conference, contact Sonja Lanehart at (210) 458-6610, or sonja.lanehart@utsa.edu |