I have been lucky in life to have exceptional mentors at various stages in my life, and without them, my journey might have taken a different path. Today, I’ll give a presentation on mentoring networks at the ATTW conference where I’ll offer some suggestions on building them and sustaining them through stages in an academic career. A video one of my colleagues and I created back in 2008 will be shown at the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and we’ll celebrate the organization’s 25th anniversary. Here I’ll join a community of scholars and teachers to remember Win Horner, a really important mentor. She died in February, and I have linked to some incredible articles that document her contributions to the field.
While she mentored many, many women (and men) over the years, I was incredibly blessed to have had several opportunities to have one on one conversations with her and tour Amsterdam with her while attending an international conference while a graduate student.
Win Horner, 1922-2014 – Columbia Daily Tribune | Columbia Missouri: Obituaries.
