I support the creation of this forum.

Reed Wilson, UCLA

I sign to affirm that the Creative Writing group should be started at MLA this year.

I support this petition.

Trent Hergenrader
Rochester Institute of Technology

I endorse this petition.

Robert Machado

I support this petition, and I volunteer to be on the committee.

The sociolinguists have produced a good amount of work on this subject.  I recommend Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson’s Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools (2011) as a good reference and a good start.  As a grad student and a tutor, I have come across similar situations with ESL and African American students w…[Read more]

I support the creation of this forum.

Tana Jean Welch, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine

I’m writing to support the creation of the Creative Writing forum, and to volunteer for the executive committee.

Hello Pedro,

My university is right on the Texas/Mexican border so the overwhelming majority of our students learned Spanish first and English is their second language. We also have a large number of Mexican nationals who attend along with students from other foreign countries. My experience is that our weakest students are the ones who have come…[Read more]

I support this petition. Hania

I support this petition.

Ellen Mayock, Washington and Lee University

I support the formation of this group.

I wholeheartedly support the creation of a Creative Writing forum within RCWS, and hope that it leads to fruitful conversation among students and scholars of writing across genres.

Benjamin Miller
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Nancy Caronia, University of Rhode Island

I support this petition.

I support this forum. Kristin George Bagdanov

Hi Pedro,  I often encounter minorities in my classrooms, and, because they are online classes, I sometimes feel handicapped when I respond to them.  They cannot see my smile or the twinkle in my eye as I try to reassure them that their command of English is excellent but spelling, grammar, language usage and sentence structure problems are g…[Read more]

I support the creation of the Creative Writing forum.

Janelle Adsit

This is a group that should have been part of the MLA a long time ago, so yes, support its formation.