Dear friends,

I’m pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.

Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Teaching Beyond University

In its effort to recognize other spaces for postgraduate careers beyond 4-year institutions, the Teaching as a Profession Forum is inviting submissions for a virtual roundtable focused on teaching beyond a traditional university department. We are…[Read more]

[This session is organized by the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum]

Ungrading as Liberatory Practice 

As a pedagogical practice, ungrading decenters grade-based assessment and focuses instead on student learning. It is based on the philosophical premise that grades are not an accurate assessment of learning, and institutionalized grading…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to call your attention to three CFPs for the 2024 MLA convention that may interest you.

• The Range of Contingency: Models and Strategies for Success: As the nature of contingency evolves with non-tenure track faculty assuming increased responsibilities within the academy, what models or strategies can help to a…

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The RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

I hope all of you have arrived safely in San Francisco and are having a great experience at the MLA this year.

This is a friendly reminder that our session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” is tomorrow, Saturday, 1/7/23, at 10:15 am, in Moscone West – 3018.

For more information about the panel, click here.

This…[Read more]

Columbus State Community College is a great place to work! The college has amplified our efforts to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across hiring, curriculum, and teaching.

Our positions are posted here:

Link to Tenure-Track Instructor – Rhetoric and Composition

If you have questions about the positions, college, or Columbus, feel f…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!

Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[Read more]