Description: Multidisciplinary panelists discuss how definitions of the text are changing in relation to technology, mobility, and globalization in their respective fields and what these changes suggest about textual transactions between diverse communities across expansive space-time scales.

Presider

A. Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State U, University Park

Speakers

Ellen Cushman, Northeastern U

Peter Elbow, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Michael Lucey, U of California, Berkeley

Mary Louise Pratt, New York U

Michael Allan, U of Oregon

Michael Silverstein, U of Chicago