rhetoric and composition

NJCEA 47th Annual Conference

 "TEACHING LITERATURE AND WRITING STUDIES IN A POLARIZED SOCIETY" 

March 22, 2025 Seton Hall University

The challenges of teaching humanities in today’s increasingly polarized political climate are profound. Educators find themselves at the intersection of diverse ideologies, cultural tensions, and barriers students may face in their access to education. How do we teach literature and writing in ways that foster civility, empathy, and meaningful dialogue amid stark political divides? For the 2025 NJCEA annual conference, we ask you to consider ideas and pedagogical strategies that help navigate these tensions without losing the richness and relevance of literature and writing.

Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR

The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development. 

Key Research Questions

The ongoing—and now significantly escalated—genocide of Palestinian peoples by the Israeli government has been uniquely, painfully, and steadfastly documented and shared for far-flung viewers to instantaneously bear witness to atrocities that might otherwise remain unfathomable to the international community. Palestinian peoples have been recording their own intensified annihilation in a brave, painstaking, persistent, and not-always-intentional manner.

 New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge / Taylor and Francis) seeks articles and creative work for publication in Volume 22 (4 Issues, 2025) and Volume 23 (4 Issues, 2026).  Any length.  https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmnw20/about-this-journal#aims-and-scope Submissions are internationally peer reviewed and the journal is widely published, and made avai

Call for proposals exended! 

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 24, 2025

Join us in New Orleans, LA, on April 11

Call for Proposals

Delgado Community College is excited to host the 2025 Louisiana Gateway English & Math Success Symposium (LaGEMSS). This symposium invites educators, administrators, and practitioners to share innovative practices, research, and strategies to improve student success in gateway English and Mathematics courses.  

Symposium Tracks

LaGEMSS welcomes proposals that focus on the following areas:

There are countless anthologies and textbooks for college-level students, but few supplying actual examples modeled after the types of essays students create in early composition courses such as English 100, 101, and 102.

The goal of this project is to publish a textbook for early-level undergraduate students that: 

• Provides sample essays on various topics that they can use as models of exemplary writing

• Shows the norms of each essay genre

• Models proper formatting of in-text citations, including a works cited or reference page 

Recently I, Tawnya Azar (co-editor), posted a request for information on the Writing Studies listserv to solicit information and ideas about hosting a celebration of student writing event in my composition program. After a long search for published research or essays on student writing events, I was finding very little and hoped I would at least get a few additional recommendations for published works on the subject. Instead many faculty and program heads contacted me with generous, detailed descriptions of student writing events they previously ran or currently run, and I was struck by the diversity and potential impact of these events on campus communities.

Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” will edit a collection of creative writing (visual art, poems and nonfiction writing) entitled "Through my Eyes" -- How we perceive world issues, crises or maybe even beauty. As such, they solicit writings from everyone (students, alumni, and the broader community) on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the ways that we use our own experience to think about local, global, international or interpersonal issues.  Or, they could address the ways that local, global, international or interpersonal issues change the ways that we understand our own experiences.  

A forthcoming special issue of Survive and Thrive will feature stories written by survivors of perinatal loss, their loved ones, their healthcare providers and other support workers, and scholars from interdisciplinary fields.

Intraspection publishes academic work that exhibits compelling prose, captivating arguments,
and rhetorical flair. The journal seeks to meld academic writing with evolving forms and writing
styles. Intraspection invites submissions that explore and inquire in ways that mesh with our aim
to blend scholarship and creativity, emphasizing style and rhetorical flair to highlight content and
the development of provocative ideas.

Image, Imagination, Communication: Exploring the Ethical as Natural or Artificial, Real or Surreal 

May 28-30, 2025
Duquesne University

Conference on Community Writing™
“Designing Justice Across Space, Place, and Time”Detroit, MI
October 23-25, 2025Sponsored by Wayne State University and Michigan State UniversityCall for Proposals Submit a Proposal Here Deadline for proposal submissions: Monday, February 17, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions 

16th -17th June 2025

The University of Western Australia, Perth

Keynote speakers: 

Daniel M. Gross (University of California Irvine)

Robbert Boddice (Tampere University)  

The world’s steady sloping toward 21st century fascism took an even more precipitous slide with the US electoral victory of Donald Trump in this fall’s election. There is no way to fully capture where different folks are at in their (dis)orientation to this unfolding fascism—physio-psycho- socio-affectio-logically—but feeling grief, rage, numbness, disgust, despair, flattened, scattered, scared, and intermixtures of all these (and many more) are surely in the running as immediate but inadequate visceral descriptors for this moment.