2007 DATE Conference
Discussions about the Teaching of English
March 7, 2007
SUNY Cortland -- Cortland, NY
Corey Union
2007 DATE Conference
Central New York Teacher-to-Teacher
The 2007 DATE (Discussions About the Teaching of English) Conference was held March 7, 2007, in Corey Union on the campus of the State University of New York at Cortland.
Keynote Speakers
Jennifer Donnelly Bob Yagelski
Keynote speakers for the 2007 DATE Conference will be Jennifer Donnelly, author of A Northern Light, and Bob Yagelski, co-director of the Capital City Writing Project and author of Literacy Matters: Writing and Reading the Social Self.
Jennifer Donnelly is the author of three novels: A Northern Light, The Tea Rose, and The Winter Rose, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children. She grew up in New York State (in Lewis and Westchester Counties) and attended the University of Rochester.
The Tea Rose, Jennifer’s first novel, is an epic historical novel set in London and New York in the late 19th century. It was called “exquisite” by Booklist, “so much fun” by The Washington Post, and a “guilty pleasure” by People. In addition, The Romantic Times named it a “Top Pick.”
Jennifer’s second novel, A Northern Light, is set in the Adirondacks in 1906, against the backdrop of the famous Chester Gillette murder of Grace Brown. The novel was the winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Borders Original Voices Award. It also was a Printz Honor Book. Described as “rich and true” by The New York Times, the novel was named to the Best Books lists of The Times (London), The Irish Times, The Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, and The School Library Journal.
The Winter Rose, her third novel (and the second book in The Tea Rose trilogy) is out now in the United Kingdom and will be published in the United States in Spring of 2008.
Jennifer lives in Brooklyn and Tivoli, New York, with her husband, daughter, and greyhound.
Bob Yagelski is Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the State University of New York at Albany. He teaches courses in composition theory and pedagogy, critical pedagogy, and qualitative research methods and helps prepare secondary school teachers. He earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the Ohio State University.
Professor Yagelski is also co-director of the Capital District Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project. Previously, he directed the Writing Center at SUNY Albany, co-directed the English Education program at Purdue University, and chaired the English Department at Vermont Academy, an independent high school.
Professor Yagelski's research has focused on understanding literacy as a social activity and writing as a technology. He has studied revision in student writing and the uses of technology in writing instruction, and he has examined the role of literacy in students' lives. Recently, he has explored connections between writing, pedagogy, and issues of social justice and sustainability.
Yagelski is the author of Literacy Matters: Writing and Reading the Social Self and of numerous articles and essays about teaching writing that have appeared in College Composition and Communication, Research in the Teaching of English, English Education, Journal of Teaching Writing, and Radical Teacher, among others. He is also author of The Thomson Reader, co-author (with Robert K. Miller) of The Informed Argument, 6th edition, editor of Literacies and Technologies: A Reader for Contemporary Writers, and co-editor (with Scott Leonard) of The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives.
