rhetoric and composition

TYCA Northeast

61st Annual Conference

2026 Call for Proposals

October 2 - 3, 2026

Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square

25 S Queen St, Lancaster, PA 17603

Proposal Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Submission Link: https://www.tycanortheast.org/

Conference Theme: Meeting the Moment: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future in English Studies

We invite you to submit scholarly or creative work to the 91st Annual Conference of the Indiana College English Association. As a regional affiliate of the College English Association, anyone in our region (Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky) is encouraged to participate.

Pedagogy and Praxis (Panel / In-Person)Presiding Officer: Kathryn Vulic (Western Washington University)

The Pedagogy and Praxis roundtable will explore all aspects of pedagogy and teaching praxis as experienced or theorized by English, Modern Languages, and Humanities educators. Topics of interest might include:

· Theoretical and practical responses to the rise of large language model/generative AI

· Classroom methods and assignments that foster students’ literary analysis skills and that reduce reliance of AI tools

· Recent trends in higher education and high school teaching of the humanities

· Innovations and emerging research in pedagogy

International Conference for PhD Students and Young Researchers
UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI
6-7 OCTOBER 2026
«Maligno animo et lingua detractoria»:
the Art of Slander from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age

Abstract:

This panel reexamines life writing in the age of Generative AI, asking who controls the conditions under which individuals narrate their own lives. Submissions reflecting on how AI corporations and Generative AI models are reshaping life writing practices across textual, digital, and visual formats, or on the consequences of such practices for authorship, equity, and cultural power, are especially welcome.

Description:

Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence

Session Organizer: Dr. Houman Mehrabian (University Canada West)

Keynote Speakers: Dr. Alfred Hermida (University of British Columbia) & Dr. Kathryn Huether (University of California, Los Angeles)

Call for Proposals

6th Annual Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing & Rhetoric Conference

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Radford University  |  Radford, Virginia

Conference Theme

Writing Home: Where the Power of Place Meets the Page 

Description

2026 Conference on Young Adult Literature - Louisiana (CYALL)
LSU Shreveport,  November 6, 2026
Shreveport, LA
Deadline for proposal submissions is August 7, 2026

https://libguides.lsus.edu/CYALL

Archives are not neutral: they tell stories about who counts, whose experiences are remembered, and whose are erased. For centuries, racial hierarchies have shaped the preservation of knowledge, leaving silences where Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized voices should be. The Antiracism Permanent Section of the MMLA invites submissions that move beyond critique, asking how we can reimagine, rebuild, and transform the archive to reflect justice, equity, and shared humanity.We are especially interested in work that explores:

ROUNDTABLE: Writing Communities in and Beyond the Classroom (PAMLA, Seattle, Nov 12-15, 2026)

Deadline for Proposals: May 15

This roundtable revisits writing as a fundamentally social, collaborative, and democratic act at a time when many writers and students experience it as isolated, pressured, and increasingly mediated by technology. Beyond offering emotional and peer support, writing communities in classrooms, online and social spaces, and professional and informal networks shape how writers see themselves, understand their audience, engage in metacognitive practices, and take creative and intellectual risks.

Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul

Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature

Samford University

Birmingham, AL

October 22-24, 2026

Submission Deadline:  July 1, 2026

Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University) 

Guest Reviewers

​New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise​ to join its international Guest Reviewer pool. Reviewers should have knowledge of contemporary creative writing studies. Some understanding of current critical discussions in Creative Writing Studies, Literary Studies or related fields would be well-received.

​New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.

The journal can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmnw20/current

Call for ProposalsEthos in Contemporary Contexts: Authority, Identity, and Trust in Contemporary RhetoricEdited, Academic Collection

MLA ‘27 Guaranteed Session:

TITLE:  Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Emancipatory Activities at the Crossroads of Academic Freedom

DESCRIPTION:  In honor of the 60th anniversary of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the MLA Committee on Higher Education Practices (HEP) seeks paper proposals regarding contemplation, design, and/or implementation of emancipatory activities in literature, language, and writing classrooms.

Topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) the following: