Kathleen Blake Yancey and Michael Spooner, a.k.a. Myka Vielstimmig
November 5 - 11 E-mail
November 6, 5 - 7pm EST MOO
Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Pearce Professor of Professional Communication at Clemson University and Michael Spooner is at Utah State University Press. Under the name Myka Vielstimmig, they write provocative and experimental collaborative pieces on e-mail as genre as well as on hypertext. In their work they attempt to recreate the multi-voice aspect of online writing.
For their sessions, participants should familiarize themselves with Yancey and Spooner's work:
"Petals of a Wet, Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration and the New Essay" in Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Technologies edited by Gail E. Hawisher, Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999.
"A Good Single Mind: Collaboration, Cooperation, and the Writing Self" in CCC 49.1 February 1998.
"Postings on a Genre of E-mail" in CCC 47.2 May 1996.
Not (Necessarily) a Cosmic Convergence: Rhetoric, Poetics, Performance, and the Web
Log of MOO session: 7 November 2000