CFP: Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University

deadline for submissions: 
March 31, 2025
full name / name of organization: 
Feminist Formations

We are inviting submissions for a special issue of *Feminist Formations* onthe topic of "Feminist Visions and Struggles for a Gradeless University."

Abstracts are due March 31, 2025.

This issue aims to stitch together a practical and theoretical foundation
from which to imagine and facilitate feminist futures for higher education.
We seek papers that critically engage with grading practices from a range
of intersectional feminist perspectives. We are particularly interested in
how a feminist pedagogical lens can draw attention to the social and
institutional structures that grades function within, including but not
limited to the colonial origins of the education system; racism and ableism
in assessment; and the gendered care work of feminist education. Papers
might offer methods for alternative grading that embody feminist
principles, analyses of normative grading regimes, or interventions into
dominant discourses around ungrading and the university structure. We
invite contributions that not only confront grading as a material and
institutional framework inimical to feminist pedagogy, but also imagine the
converse: alternative forms of assessment capable of structuring feminist
institutions of higher education.

Guest editors: Atia Sattar, Man Kaplan, and Stina Soderling. If you have
questions about the CFP, contact us at feminismwithoutgrades@gmail.com.

For full CFP and submission instructions, see
https://www.feministformations.org/submit/calls-for-papers