rhetoric and composition

Event: University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ Praxis Conference

Theme: Writing With

Date: Fri May 29, 2026

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States (University of Washington, Seattle campus)

CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 13, 11:59pm PST (UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 16, 11:59pm PST)

We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ sixth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the University of Washing, Seattle campus on Friday, May 29th, 2026.

Panel on the rewards, risks, and ethics of public humanities approaches in the undergraduate classroom. Some possible topics: public project assignments, public writing, community-engaged learning, university/humanities in current political climate, faculty-student collaboration.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 20, 2026

Please send 250-500-word abstracts & CVs to Roya Biggie, Knox College (royabiggie@gmail.com ) and Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland (danicasavonick@gmail.com ).

Call for Papers:

Panel Title: Composition beyond Walls: Writing and Arguing for/in Spaces beyond the Classroom
Location: MLA National Conference, Los Angeles, California
Date: January 7-10, 2027

Panel Hosts: Dr. Jeff Birkenstein and Dr. Sharon Mitchler, Centralia College (Centralia, Washington)

Proposal Deadline: March 22, 2026

The Challenge

Call for Papers:

DEADLINE EXTENDED

Writing the Truth through a Fictional Lens:

Comparing Sinophone and Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Products

Edited by Chi Sum Garfield LAU, Kelly Kar Yue CHAN and Chi Chun CHAN

We invite you to participate at the 19th annual Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes summer conference:

NFEAP 2026 - Mythologies

First Call for Papers

The 2026 NFEAP summer conference will take place on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th of June 2026 at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway.

The theme for the 2026 conference is Mythologies.

2/15/26 - 4/30/26: Subs are open forIssue #9: Collaborations!We are seeking both poetry and art.There are no theme / subject restrictions.

We are excited to share with you all on behalf of the Conference Planning Committee for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program that we are holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT. Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems." As those who have collaborated with us in the past, we are once again inviting you to help us explore ways of approaching these 'wicked problems', such as those that evade consensus, offer multiple solutions, or may even resist resolution at all.

This year’s MCLLM theme invites exploration of how literature, language, and performance illuminate intersecting dimensions of justice. How are inherited forms, genres, and rhetorical strategies reactivated in contemporary struggles for equity? In what ways do linguistic, literary, and artistic practices navigate, resist, and respond to the abuse of power while imagining alternative futures? 

MCLLM welcomes proposals from a wide range of disciplines and expression forms. The list below provides a sense of the topics the organizers are interested in seeing, but it is not an all-inclusive list. Please submit a proposal that represents your interpretation of our theme! 

CALL FOR PAPERSTeaching Authentic Thinking in the Age of AI: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice

Editors: Trent M. Kays, PhD (Augusta University); Rosita Scerbo, PhD (Georgia State University); and Stefanie Sevcik, PhD (Mercer University)

THE PROBLEM

Students carry ChatGPT in their pockets. They can generate competent essays in seconds. Traditional assignments become trivial to automate.

How should we teach?

Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026!

Call for Papers

Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching

The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University (NDSU) invites proposals for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, April 10-11, 2026, on the beautiful NDSU campus in Fargo, North Dakota.

The Mid-Atlantic Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group (CEAMAG). The journal specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, reviews of scholarly books, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, photographs and visual art related to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and creative writing related to the humanities, teaching, or the craft and art of writing. The Mid-Atlantic Review is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography and available to scholars through the EBSCO and ProQuest Literature databases.

USM’s English Graduate Organization Conference Call for Papers

(Un)Spoken: Voices of Dissent

April 10th and 11th, 2026

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, MS

We are pleased to announce the CFP for a special 2026 issue of Academic Labor: Research and Artistry (ALRA) on Art & Engagement as Critical Response (300 word proposal deadline: 1/16/26).  In the spirit of recognizing the ongoing precarities of higher education–both internal (neoliberalism, systemic institutional inequities) and external (crisis of public confidence in U.S. universities/colleges, threats to academic freedom), we invite proposals for a special issue of ALRA on art and engagement as critical response  to the invisibility, illegibility, and silencing faced by much of the academic labor force.

The 2026 Benedict College International Multidisciplinary Conference (2026 BCIMC)
Thursday and Friday, April 23-24, 2026, at 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Sponsored by the School of Communication, Arts, and Social Sciences (CASS)

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
https://benedict.edu/bciimc

CONFERENCE FORMAT
Hybrid
In-Person and Virtual

CONFERENCE VENUE
Benedict College
Dr. David H. Swinton Campus Center 
1616 Oak Street
Columbia, SC 29204

CONFERENCE THEME
The Age of Artificial Intelligence Across Academic Disciplines