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Tisha Turk

Associate Professor of English
PhD University of Wisconsin - Madison (2005)

research interests

Fan vids and fan composing processes; composition studies, writing centers, and peer tutoring; narrative theory; history of the novel in English; gender and sexuality studies.

regularly-taught courses

other courses

recent and forthcoming publications

"Toward an Ecology of Vidding" (with Joshua Johnson, UMM '10). Transformative Works and Cultures. March 2012.

"Intertextuality and the Collaborative Construction of Narrative: J. M. Coetzee's Foe." Narrative 19.3 (2011).

"Metalepsis in Fan Vids and Fan Fiction." Metalepsis in Popular Culture, eds. Karin Kukkonen and Sonia Klimek. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2011.

"'Your own imagination': Vidding and Vidwatching as Collaborative Interpretation." Film & Film Culture 5 (2010).

"'Tutoring' Beyond the Writing Center: Peer Consulting in the Classroom." Working With Student Writers, 2nd ed., eds. JoAnne and Leonard Podis. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2010.

recent and upcoming conference presentations

"Remix: Learning from Media Fans." Digital Media and Learning. San Francisco, CA, March 2012.

"A BA, an MA, an MFA, and a PhD Walk Out of a Writing Center: Perspectives on the Ongoing Influence of Peer Tutoring" [roundtable with three UMM alums]. Midwest Writing Center Association (MWCA). Madison, WI, October 2011.

"Vidding as Multimedia Composing Process" [75-minute workshop]. Computers & Writing Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2011.

"Vidding and Vidwatching as Multimedia Literacies." Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Atlanta, GA, April 2011.

"User-Generated Writing: Remixing the Composition Syllabus." Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing Colloquium, University of Minnesota, November 2010.

"Talking Back to TV: The Rhetoric of Fan-made Videos." Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN, May 2010.

"Fan-made Videos and New Media Literacies." Computers & Writing Conference. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 2010.

"Transforming TV: Story and Discourse in Fan Video Narratives." Narrative International Conference. Cleveland, OH, April 2010.

Tisha's website and course pages

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