rhetoric and composition

Texts at Work

Labor in the Liberal Arts

The New York College English Association and

The Pennsylvania College English Association

October 3-4, 2025

SUNY Alfred State

Keynote presentation: Dr. Rose Zaloom, Content Writer, Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Call for Papers

Seeking Participants for 2026 CCCC Roundtable on Research Writing in FYW

Dear colleagues,

The 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) invites scholars to contribute what “matters to you most” through conversation and collaboration. In that spirit, we would like to facilitate a roundtable discussion on developing and/or expanding the horizons of how we teach established research genres in the first-year composition classrooms.

Seismic developments in technology, politics, and cognition are radically transforming the traditional writing classroom, which has been a site of contradiction (and at times controversy) since its formation after the GI Bill and the “democratization” of the university. Whether one starts with Raymond Williams or the New Critics through the Sputnik era, the cultural interventions of the late ’60s and the process movement, or the cultural turn of the ’80s, the “field” on which “the writing classroom” is founded has been a contested zone all along.

This panel seeks presentations on uses of generative AI in the college classroom, with a particular focus on approaches that combine theory and practice. Especially welcome are presentations that are built around transferable skills and activities/assignments in different disciplines including writing and literature.

The panel will take place during the MMLA's annual convention from November 14-16 on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more informationa about the organization and the conference, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/futureconventionplans/

“Confinement and Freedom”

Call for Papers

2025 Arkansas Philological Association Conference

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Nov. 14-15, 2025

https://michigancea.org/

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Zoom

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Themes:  Survival and Healing

Featured Speaker: Gail Griffin, poet and non-fiction writer

Many faculty and programs across a wide array of university and scholastic settings offer events that center, celebrate, or showcase student writing. These are truly diverse and have a real impact on student growth, learning, and knowledge transfer at all educational levels. Whether a showcase or a celebration, whether for first year writing students or built into grad student professionalization, whether modeled on an art expo or in the style of an academic conference, these opportunities for students to share their work are worth reflecting on and situating amid other pedagogical or writing goals. We ourselves hope to showcase a variety of perspectives on the pitfalls and opportunities such celebrations offer for students, faculty, and programs.

Imaginative Reading: Walking Into the Wardrobe

Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature

Anderson University

Anderson, SC

October 23-25, 2025

CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2025, November 14–16, Milwaukee, WI

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "The Humanities is Where Hope Lives" for the 2025 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers.

The Book of Acts contains elements of human actions and inactions that depict the beginning of a
new religious dispensation – Christianity that sought to redefine the nexus between the nascent
Christian faith, ethnicity, and identity. Identity is a hallmark of many religious groups manifest in
their practices that become a cultural identity of the group. This did not leave out ethnic issues in
the nascent group called Christianity. Early Christianity is construed as a "Jewish ethno-religious
identity into a Christian identity that was unattached to a particular geopolitical and ethno-cultural
identity” (Bennema 2015). This identity was formulated and emerged through conflict with

Conference Theme: Multiplicity

We are pleased to invite proposals for the University of Washington English Department Writing Programs’ fifth annual Praxis Conference, which will be held at the UW Seattle campus on Friday May 30th, 2025.  The theme for the conference is “Multiplicity” (understood broadly to include how to honor and support the multiplicity of our students’ identities, knowledges, modes of communication, and languages) and its possibilities as they relate to our teaching of English.

Writing Human: Post-Chatbot Approaches to College Writing

We are seeking short, first-person narratives (2,000-3,000 words) from college instructors in any discipline who use writing activities and assignments in ways that foster engagement, enhance learning, and stimulate creativity.  We are compiling a book of stories that affirm the educational value of human writing at a time when more of our writing is being done for us by generative AI.        

The University of Southern Mississippi’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites abstracts and proposals from Mississippi and Gulf States graduate students for its annual spring conference, a two-day, in-person event on April 4th and 5th at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. 

How do we continue to teach in unending crisis? How do we move from neoliberal and ableist expectations of “excellence” and “resilience” to center community and care? How can classrooms make space for what hurts? This roundtable intends to generate a conversation around teaching approaches and strategies faculty are using that attend to their own needs and the needs of their students given ongoing institutional and political turmoil. 

Submit a 250-word abstract and short bio by March 15th, 2025.