Moeller Lecture

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Language difference and expansive learning : negotiating concepts, contexts, and identities in writing-related transfer studies.

This dissertation offers a theoretical examination of current conceptualizations of writing-related transfer of learning in Rhetoric and Composition. I analyze the models presently available for understanding writing-related transfer of learning and argue that they are constrained by narrow conceptions of language use/users that do not accurately reflect the rich and varied language practices student writers perform, nor the multilingual audiences students with whom students will interact when they leave our classrooms. As a result, I argue that transfer has been difficult for writing studies scholars to pinpoint and locate. Building on theoretical models of language from applied linguistics and second language writing, I develop a theoretical orientation to the idea of transfer in terms of dispositions or attitudes toward language that can be practiced, enhanced, and potentially mobilized across rhetorical moments and spaces. This dissertation is divided into five chapters. Chapter One narrates the scholarly context for my dissertation by surveying contemporary theories of writing development in postsecondary education, and explores why the idea of ‘transfer’ has become so critical (and polarizing) for the disciplinary identity of Rhetoric and Composition. Chapter Two offers an analysis of three recent efforts to revitalize research on writing-related transfer, including the domain model of writing expertise, studies on writing-related threshold concepts and Writing about Writing curricula, and research on individual/institutional dispositions. Although the emerging perspectives purport to address the limitations of models that presume the existence of general or universal writing skills, I argue that they continue to work within the same terms of the models they propose to redefine. Chapter Three introduces the temporal-spatial framework advocated by translingual scholars to current transfer models. By locating contexts and practices in both time and space, I argue that it no longer makes sense to conceive of expansive learning as the process of transporting knowledge objects between two stable contexts. Chapter Four illustrates a set of critical reading practices that might help writing researchers and instructors identify the performance of rhetorical expertise in more nuanced and complex ways. Chapter Five concludes the project by situating my work within current fast capitalist discourses about writing across higher education

Documentation

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Reimagining Ancient Agricultural Strategies and Gendered Labor in the Prehispanic Moche Valley of North Coastal Peru

Understanding the relationship between agricultural intensification and ancient sociopolitical complexity is a question that has long resonated with archaeological research interests. This dissertation explores the dynamics of food production, migration, and sociopolitical change in relation to the consolidation of the complex, hierarchically organized Southern Moche polity of north coastal Peru during the Early Intermediate Period, or EIP (400 B.C. – A.D. 800). I incorporate archaeobotanical, environmental, and ethnohistorical evidence to address changes in food production, processing, and consumption over five cultural horizons to critically re-evaluate existing models of Moche sociopolitical development, with a bottom-up perspective of the laborers in rural households whose agricultural production supported the growth and florescence of this complex society. A diachronic comparison of paleoethnobotanical data sampled from five EIP habitation sites in the Moche Valley reveals that dramatic increases in agricultural production by coastal (costeño) and highland (serrano) groups occurred prior to the expansion of the Moche state in the A.D. 300s. The plant data suggest that complex political dynamics involving tribute relationships and suprahousehold commensal events were already in place during the Gallinazo phase (A.D. 1-200). Highland and coastal peoples likely established mutually beneficial relationships that revolved around food and farming during this period, including fiestas, religious gatherings, and work parties (masa). I argue that Moche leaders built upon existing political institutions in which rural households were already engaged in intensive agricultural production, which included maize but also other field cultigens and tree crops.The intensification of food-processing demands over time also suggests that changes in women’s social status may have been tied to increases in processing demands, as women were subjected to new labor increases, time constraints, and scheduling conflicts. Detailed intrasite spatial analysis of a highland colony site reveals that women prepared food in private, behind-the-scenes contexts for supra-household events and public displays that were performed on patio terraces at high status compounds. These women may have prepared food for these public events totally apart from, and without being included, in such events. I interpret the restriction of visibility, with women processing maize and other foodstuffs out of view behind kitchen walls, as part of increased gender segregation that often accompanies processes like agricultural intensification.The micro-scale approach employed in this study departs from the current, prevailing studies of political, economic, and ideological phenomena at larger ceremonial centers on the Peruvian north coast. This project reveals how a seemingly mundane category of archaeological data (archaeobotanical data) can shed light on myriad social processes related to the negotiation of ethnic identities, gender relations, and domestic labor more broadly, and reframe our understandings of Moche sociopolitical development specifically

Polarized light sensitivity in the zoea of the rock crab (Panopeus herbstii)

This study was undertaken to investigate polarotaxis (orientation to the e-vector of polarized light) in the zoeae of the xanthid crab, Panopeus herbstii. Several lines of behavioral evidence indicate that arthropods are able to perceive polarized light as a stimulus distinct from light pattern (image) perception. The optical environment in this study was made as natural as possible to allow more realistic extrapolations from orientational behavior to the ecological relations of this group. Panopeus herbstii larvae were cultured at 25° C in 25 /00 filtered sea water, and on a 12:12 hour light:dark cycle. The first and second stage zoeae were tested for their orientation in different light intensity distributions both with unpolarized light or polarized beams from the sides (the e-vector horizontal or 20° off the horizontal). This was accomplished by placing the animals in an experimental apparatus which consisted of a glass cuvette suspended within a large supporting structure on which lamps, filters, camera, and electronic flash heads were counted. Thus, the animals could be photographed while being subjected to a variety of light regimes. An enlarger was used to project the Images from the photographic negatives onto a piece of paper. The orientations of the animals' rigid dorsal spine could then be drawn, measured, and tabulated. The Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon) U test was used for location comparisons; dispersions about the median orientation were compared using the Siegel-Tukey test

Le romancier kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Le texte écrit en anglais peut-il dire l'oppression ?

Bardolph Jacqueline. Le romancier kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Le texte écrit en anglais peut-il dire l'oppression ?. In: Oppression et expression dans la littérature et le cinéma. Afrique, Amérique, Asie. Nice : Institut d'études et de recherches interethniques et interculturelles, 1981. pp. 33-56

Deux mille saisons de l'écrivain ghanéen Ayi Kwei Armah

Bardolph Jacqueline. Deux mille saisons de l'écrivain ghanéen Ayi Kwei Armah. In: Le temps et l'histoire chez l'écrivain : Afrique du Nord, Afrique noire, Antilles. Nice : Institut d'études et de recherches interethniques et interculturelles, 1986. pp. 61-74

Deux mille saisons de l'écrivain ghanéen Ayi Kwei Armah

Bardolph Jacqueline. Deux mille saisons de l'écrivain ghanéen Ayi Kwei Armah. In: Le temps et l'histoire chez l'écrivain : Afrique du Nord, Afrique noire, Antilles. Nice : Institut d'études et de recherches interethniques et interculturelles, 1986. pp. 61-74