Sundy Watanabe
Ph. D. student

 

Current Position:
Writing Center Director

Research Interests:
Literacy composition, indigenous epistemology, place, nationalist discourse (English only, immigration).

Previous Education:
M.A Theory and practice of writing, Utah State University

Presentations:

“Survivance Then and Now: Sites of Shared Community in Archival and Contemporary Practice.” College Composition and Communication Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2008.

“Literacies and the Law of Unintended Consequences: Multimodal Limitations (and Possibilities?) in Sustaining and Enriching Social Futures.” Writing Research Across Borders Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, Feb. 2008

“A Matter of Balance: Tension and Fluidity in Shared Community.” American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2007.

Presenter: “Out-Of-School Literacies:  Alternative, Sustainable Modes.” Western States Rhetoric and Literacy (WSRL) Conference, Tempe, AZ Oct. 2007.

Presenter: “Creation Stories: Bakhtinian and Gadamerian Movement in Epistemological Dialogue.” American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Conference, Cleveland, OH Oct. 2007

NCTEAR:  "Educational Choice: A Question of Epistemological Knowledge, Power, and Control" 

Western Humanities Conference: "Translating the Image:  Language of Place in Composition Theory"

Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Conference:  "Given - Variable:  An Engineering Focus on Authority and Legitimacy in WAC/WID Programs" 

Kellogg/Early College High School Literacy Institute:  Scholars Not Students

Teton Science School :  "Initiating WAC/WID"

Publications:

Watanabe, Sundy. “‘Because We Do Not Know Their Way’: Standardizing Practices and Peoples through Habitus, the NCLB “Highly-Qualified” Mandate, and PRAXIS I Examinations.” Journal of American Indian Education 47.1 (2008). 118-135.

Watanabe, S. (forthcoming). "Because We Do Not Know Their Way": Standardizing Practices and Peoples through Habiatus, the NCLB 'Highly-Qualified' Mandate, and PRAXIS I Examinations. Journal of American Indian Education. 

Watanabe, S. (2006). Book review: Process This: Undergraduate Writing in Composition Studies, by Nancy C. DeJoy. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2004. 184 pp. Composition Studies 34(2). http://www.compositionstudies.tcu.edu/bookreviews/online/34-2/Watanabe%20Web.html.

Watanabe, S. (2006, Fall). Translating the image: Language of place in composition theory. Western Humanities review LX(2), 154-164.

Kedrowicz, A., Watanabe, S. et al. (2006). Infusing technical communication and teamwork within the ECE curriculum. Elektrik 14(1), 41-53.

Watanabe, S. (2004). An authentic voice: A conversation with Ken Brewer. Weber Studies 22(1), 2-18.