Keynote Speaker

Frankie Condon

Frankie Condon is an Associate Professor of English and the Faculty Coordinator of the Writing Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre from York University in Toronto, a Master of Arts degree in English from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in English from the University at Albany where she studied composition and rhetoric. Frankie served, with her friend and colleague Vicki Tischio, as the Assistant Director of the Writing Center during her graduate study at Albany. She also served as Director of the Writing Center at Siena College, Director of the Writing Center and, later, Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at St. Cloud State University, before she landed in the great plains state of Nebraska.

In one way or another, Frankie has been a part of and committed to the anti-racism movement in the U.S. (and Canada) for twenty years. She has participated in anti-racism trainings by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, the Training for Change Center in Philadelphia, the Dismantling Racism Project in Albany, and the Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative in Minneapolis. Frankie is a graduate of the MnSCU Luoma Leadership Academy and is a trained mediator. She brings her interests in anti-racism, leadership, and mediation to bear in her scholarship, which includes The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice co-authored with Anne Ellen Geller, Michele Eodice, Elizabeth Boquet, and Meg Carroll; her essay, Beyond the Known: Writing Centers and the Work of Anti-Racism, which appeared in the Writing Center Journal in 2007; and in essays published by College Teaching and Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue. Currently, Frankie is at work on two books, one of which deals with themes of whiteness, memory, ethics, and writing; the other is a fictional treatment of collective memory, collective guilt, and recuperation.

Frankie has served as Chair of the Midwest Writing Centers Association, Conference Chair of the International Writing Centers Association Conference 2005, and as a board member of the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, the Midwest Writing Centers Association, and the International Writing Centers Association. She teaches courses in writing center theory and practice, race and rhetoric, literacy and community, and in writing.