Knowledge Commons | Katja Thieme | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/thieme/activity/ Activity feed for Katja Thieme. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:35:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2cfcd64b01de7faeaed424576cdd08c4 Katja Thieme deposited First-Year International Students and the Language of Indigenous Studies in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902005/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:00:16 -0400 We advocate for the inclusion of Indigenous studies within first-year writing and academic English courses, particularly those taught to multilingual, international students. We argue that asking international students to learn about local and international Indigenous issues productively intersects with coursework in academic English. Our…[Read more]

]]> 0 845ab1ccd7dce68b58b75dd5b3c442a8 Katja Thieme deposited First-Year International Students and the Language of Indigenous Studies in the group Indigenous Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902004/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:00:07 -0400 We advocate for the inclusion of Indigenous studies within first-year writing and academic English courses, particularly those taught to multilingual, international students. We argue that asking international students to learn about local and international Indigenous issues productively intersects with coursework in academic English. Our…[Read more]

]]> 0 a26f404993412321781139e683035afc Katja Thieme deposited First-Year International Students and the Language of Indigenous Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901988/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:22:20 -0400 We advocate for the inclusion of Indigenous studies within first-year writing and academic English courses, particularly those taught to multilingual, international students. We argue that asking international students to learn about local and international Indigenous issues productively intersects with coursework in academic English. Our…[Read more]

]]> 0 4053323e86b39c9c0e035c267d2ba371 Katja Thieme's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901986/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:10:02 -0400 0 74048e34a45f23d187ffe413b76d5889 Katja Thieme deposited From language to algorithm: trans and non‑binary identities in research on facial and gender recognition in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878946/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 03:01:27 -0500 We assess the state of thinking about gender identities in computer vision through an analysis of how research papers in gender and facial recognition are designed, what claims they make about trans and non-binary people, what values they espouse, and what they describe as ongoing challenges for the field. In our corpus of 50 research papers, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a7f9eb02d419019d5b30727901395ce Katja Thieme deposited Expressive Freedom and Ethical Responsibility at Canadian Universities in the group Public Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878945/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 03:01:22 -0500 This article reviews recent government incursions on questions of free speech at universities and colleges in Ontario and Alberta and presents the challenge they pose to university autonomy. Inherent in university autonomy is the possibility—or the obligation—that universities make decisions based on ethical responsibilities that can extend bey…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f9b7ca0c99a67e7294f26462b8392c5 Katja Thieme deposited Expressive Freedom and Ethical Responsibility at Canadian Universities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878916/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:21:24 -0500 This article reviews recent government incursions on questions of free speech at universities and colleges in Ontario and Alberta and presents the challenge they pose to university autonomy. Inherent in university autonomy is the possibility—or the obligation—that universities make decisions based on ethical responsibilities that can extend bey…[Read more]

]]> 0 4df25e083305412eff6dae7624a46c7e Katja Thieme deposited From language to algorithm: trans and non‑binary identities in research on facial and gender recognition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878915/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:14:01 -0500 We assess the state of thinking about gender identities in computer vision through an analysis of how research papers in gender and facial recognition are designed, what claims they make about trans and non-binary people, what values they espouse, and what they describe as ongoing challenges for the field. In our corpus of 50 research papers, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a63ef52548adfb1fffa5322975e9ae10 Katja Thieme's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878801/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:34:18 -0500 0 1dbebdf081ccab56a38458033a1edcbb Katja Thieme deposited A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827915/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:23:50 -0500 Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such expected practice can be subverted by deliberate disclosure. O…[Read more]

]]> 0 28ae422f470ab1ddddb4879733f152d4 Katja Thieme deposited A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President in the group Public Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827914/ Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:23:38 -0500 Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such expected practice can be subverted by deliberate disclosure. O…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cad0e0f667cbae322b5ca972909955a Katja Thieme deposited A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827822/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 02:45:51 -0500 Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such expected practice can be subverted by deliberate disclosure. O…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed6bb5f80806f80360b9b32567d05ba8 Katja Thieme deposited Spacious Grammar: Agency and Intention in the Teaching of Research Writing https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827821/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 02:33:38 -0500 Standardized academic English is now understood to be rooted in histories and practices that are colonial, classist, nationalist, heteronormative, ableist, and sexist. Current teaching of academic English carries an ethos of making practices of research writing accessible to students from marginalized backgrounds through explicit attention to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d33489d52e4ff3e61000ecc8b79aeee2 Katja Thieme's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827816/ Fri, 30 Dec 2022 02:24:35 -0500 0 0fd58a1728244b0b654338cc4b571d12 Katja Thieme deposited Surface and Depth: Metalanguage and Professional Development in Canadian Writing Studies in the group Public Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718235/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 02:23:44 -0500 In the process of mentoring instructors of writing into the field of writing studies, there is a tension between practical surface of writing instruction and underlying theoretical depth. This paper calls for more systematic thinking about that tension between surface and depth. It emphasizes the important roles that metalanguage plays in…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9481e532ef38ac45acb32305f58b70 Katja Thieme deposited Surface and Depth: Metalanguage and Professional Development in Canadian Writing Studies in the group Digital Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718234/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 02:23:38 -0500 In the process of mentoring instructors of writing into the field of writing studies, there is a tension between practical surface of writing instruction and underlying theoretical depth. This paper calls for more systematic thinking about that tension between surface and depth. It emphasizes the important roles that metalanguage plays in…[Read more]

]]> 0 93d4a52e4467850f332595a286609724 Katja Thieme deposited Surface and Depth: Metalanguage and Professional Development in Canadian Writing Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718184/ Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:22:36 -0500 In the process of mentoring instructors of writing into the field of writing studies, there is a tension between practical surface of writing instruction and underlying theoretical depth. This paper calls for more systematic thinking about that tension between surface and depth. It emphasizes the important roles that metalanguage plays in…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ac1346891be01f4a688430f6beb170d Katja Thieme deposited Do We Need New Method Names? Descriptions of Method in Scholarship on Canadian Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718173/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:06:46 -0500 Literary studies are often seen as a discipline without method. Research articles in literature do not have method sections, nor do they list what type of evidence has been included in a particular project or by what procedures primary material was analyzed. Because of implicitness of questions of method and research design, writing in literary…[Read more]

]]> 0 67480cbb8902368ebdc407a6a156d121 Katja Thieme deposited A Principled Uncertainty: Writing Studies Methods in Contexts of Indigeneity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1616534/ Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:45:31 -0400 This article uses rhetorical genre theory to discuss methods for writing studies research in light of increasing participation of Indigenous scholars and students in disciplines throughout the academy. Like genres, research methods are embedded in systems of interaction that create subject positions and social relations. Using…[Read more]

]]> 0 93b64b016aa86df65106aadb5fb970e3 Katja Thieme deposited How do you wish to be cited? Citation practices and a scholarly community of care in trans studies research articles https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1616533/ Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:25:58 -0400 Trans rights advocacy is a social justice movement that is transforming language practices relating to gender. Research has highlighted the fact that language which constructs gender as binary harms trans people, and some trans studies researchers have developed guidelines for honouring trans people’s names and pronouns. The language of academic w…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e97f9ed1df51656df5824020f674a22 Katja Thieme deposited 'The Grim Fact of Sisterhood': Female Collectivity in the Works of Agnes Maule Machar, Nellie L. McClung, and Mabel Burkholder in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559058/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:56 -0500 Canadian feminists at the turn of the 20th century were interested in producing a collectivity that buttressed arguments for women's social and political participation. In this process, the negotiation of class relations among women was of particular importance in giving this feminism political weight. Often Canadian writers who took a feminist…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e97f9ed1df51656df5824020f674a22 Katja Thieme deposited 'The Grim Fact of Sisterhood': Female Collectivity in the Works of Agnes Maule Machar, Nellie L. McClung, and Mabel Burkholder in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559057/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:56 -0500 Canadian feminists at the turn of the 20th century were interested in producing a collectivity that buttressed arguments for women's social and political participation. In this process, the negotiation of class relations among women was of particular importance in giving this feminism political weight. Often Canadian writers who took a feminist…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0a89fcebaa02378d78f450ceeb3d4f4 Katja Thieme deposited Letters to the Woman’s Page Editor: Francis Marion Beynon’s ‘The Country Homemakers’ and a Public Culture for Women in the group Rhetoric and Composition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559056/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:55 -0500 This essay focuses on the woman’s page in the Grain Growers’ Guide, edited between 1912 and 1917 by Francis Marion Beynon. I approach this material with questions that have become prominent in rhetorical studies of women’s writing. How were women called forth to speak, and what were their motivations to participate in public debate? How did woman…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0a89fcebaa02378d78f450ceeb3d4f4 Katja Thieme deposited Letters to the Woman’s Page Editor: Francis Marion Beynon’s ‘The Country Homemakers’ and a Public Culture for Women in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559055/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:55 -0500 This essay focuses on the woman’s page in the Grain Growers’ Guide, edited between 1912 and 1917 by Francis Marion Beynon. I approach this material with questions that have become prominent in rhetorical studies of women’s writing. How were women called forth to speak, and what were their motivations to participate in public debate? How did woman…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0a89fcebaa02378d78f450ceeb3d4f4 Katja Thieme deposited Letters to the Woman’s Page Editor: Francis Marion Beynon’s ‘The Country Homemakers’ and a Public Culture for Women in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559054/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:55 -0500 This essay focuses on the woman’s page in the Grain Growers’ Guide, edited between 1912 and 1917 by Francis Marion Beynon. I approach this material with questions that have become prominent in rhetorical studies of women’s writing. How were women called forth to speak, and what were their motivations to participate in public debate? How did woman…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1b22f655e67e627ecc503f638858905 Katja Thieme deposited Uptake and genre: The Canadian reception of suffrage militancy in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559053/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:55 -0500 From 1909 onward, the Canadian suffrage debate was heavily influenced by reports on suffrage militancy from Great Britain and the United States. Militancy played an influential role in Canadian suffrage history not through its practice–there was no Canadian militant campaign–but through an ongoing discussion of its meaning. Using Anne Fre…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5cf6e61bcbb3cce31a94195dae79f98 Katja Thieme deposited Uptake and genre: The Canadian reception of suffrage militancy in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559052/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:54 -0500 From 1909 onward, the Canadian suffrage debate was heavily influenced by reports on suffrage militancy from Great Britain and the United States. Militancy played an influential role in Canadian suffrage history not through its practice–there was no Canadian militant campaign–but through an ongoing discussion of its meaning. Using Anne Fre…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1300d71e887e28a7f03e2df66d60a2d Katja Thieme deposited Constitutive Rhetoric as an Aspect of Audience Design: The Public Texts of Canadian Suffragists in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1559026/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 01:15:43 -0500 This article offers a way of using the theory of audience design—how speakers position different audience groups as main addressees, overhearers, or bystanders—for written discourse. It focuses on main addressees, that is, those audience members who are expected to participate in and respond to a speaker’s utterances. The text samples are artic…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f78e88e2a2af2ed80bd346c74e2407d Katja Thieme changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558503/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:25:59 -0500 0 9e3036e6be3c249f8e697ede06c1b883 Katja Thieme changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558502/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:25:14 -0500 0 d6de07857adf6f4643cd844393954021 Katja Thieme deposited 'The Grim Fact of Sisterhood': Female Collectivity in the Works of Agnes Maule Machar, Nellie L. McClung, and Mabel Burkholder https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558499/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:20:01 -0500 Canadian feminists at the turn of the 20th century were interested in producing a collectivity that buttressed arguments for women's social and political participation. In this process, the negotiation of class relations among women was of particular importance in giving this feminism political weight. Often Canadian writers who took a feminist…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e18d5bc54a0bac176beed409a3c0b0b Katja Thieme deposited Letters to the Woman’s Page Editor: Francis Marion Beynon’s ‘The Country Homemakers’ and a Public Culture for Women https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558497/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:07:38 -0500 This essay focuses on the woman’s page in the Grain Growers’ Guide, edited between 1912 and 1917 by Francis Marion Beynon. I approach this material with questions that have become prominent in rhetorical studies of women’s writing. How were women called forth to speak, and what were their motivations to participate in public debate? How did woman…[Read more]

]]> 0 02a1f9022f1eea133258e80708e48cfe Katja Thieme deposited Uptake and genre: The Canadian reception of suffrage militancy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558490/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:55:01 -0500 From 1909 onward, the Canadian suffrage debate was heavily influenced by reports on suffrage militancy from Great Britain and the United States. Militancy played an influential role in Canadian suffrage history not through its practice–there was no Canadian militant campaign–but through an ongoing discussion of its meaning. Using Anne Fre…[Read more]

]]> 0 455709e207d5890da1b5262a256576b6 Katja Thieme deposited Constitutive Rhetoric as an Aspect of Audience Design: The Public Texts of Canadian Suffragists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1558472/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:15:44 -0500 This article offers a way of using the theory of audience design—how speakers position different audience groups as main addressees, overhearers, or bystanders—for written discourse. It focuses on main addressees, that is, those audience members who are expected to participate in and respond to a speaker’s utterances. The text samples are artic…[Read more]

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