2025

 

Autoethnography and Oral History

Mahnaz Zahedi wrote and performed a poignant audio/video autoethnography titled “Home Sounds Like This” describing her childhood growing up in Afghanistan for Kamila Kinyon’s WRIT 1133 class.

 

 

 

Also in Kamila Kinyon’s WRIT 1133 class, Julie Abate designed a YouTube video as a revision of her autoethnography and oral history exploring her journey finding her own identity after growing up as a missionary’s kid as she traveled around the world in “Rebelling to Be Anything But Normal.”

 

 

 

Ilayda Eren designed a video as a multimodal revision of her autoethnography exploring her daily struggles as a multilingual athlete playing on DU’s volleyball team for Kamila Kinyon’s WRIT 1133 class. Ilayda explained that her video “compelled me to look beyond what I saw on the printed page and consider how things such as music, pacing, and on-screen text are used to help give persuasive appeals such as pathos and logos. I also found out that the delivery medium (video) is equally important as the message, which supports the idea of kairos, timing, and pacing of the argument, as the key rhetorical awareness.”

 

2024

Critique Ads

In Rob Gilmor’s WRIT 1122 class, Anna Quehl designed a remix video parodying a trailer of The Bachelor to critique the student dining food at DU.

 

2019

 

Parody Ads

Izzy Holman designed a video
called “Sidéffecke” for Kamila
Kinyon’s WRIT 1122 class
satirically parodying mental
health medication ads that
come with an overwhelming
number of serious side effects.

2018

Passing the Turing Test

Olasuyi Ige, a student in Kamila Kinyon’s “Created Beings: From Monsters and Androids to Robots and Cyborgs” FSEM, created an animated video in which a computer passes the Turing test, a test designed to see if artificial intelligence can pass for human: [play video]

Literacy Narrative Videos

Aubrey Schiavone’s WRIT 1122 class composed literacy narrative videos. Ellie Gorsuch’s video describes why she loves writing about art. Grace Marr’s video examines her reading process for fiction and nonfiction. Amanda Durbin’s video compares living in the discourse community of rural Fraser, Colorado with Denver. Finally, Kim Kazanowski’s video explores her drawing process.

2016

Dating Videos

Morgan Carter, Kayla Steffens, and Meredith Gee produced a video for Richard Colby’s WRIT 1622 course in Winter 2016. Their assignment was to create a video that offered contemporary dating advice. Their production team was called HumFeast, and they produced a video titled Let’s Talk Dating using student interviews [read more]

Oral Histories

Deodatta Baral, a student in Kamila Kinyon’s WRIT 1133 class, filmed a short documentary about his grandparents’ experiences living in Bhutan, being sent to a refugee camp in Nepal, and immigrating to the United States as part of an oral history project [see the YouTube video]