The frame of literacy studies, a subject of complex research across many disciplines, has long offered Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) both a focus of research and a methodological foundation. As such, RCWS scholars have contributed, and continue to contribute, significantly to broadening the field of inquiry related to…[Read more]

The Literacy Studies Forum Executive Committee members will be putting together a call for papers for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia over the course of the next couple of weeks. Please use this discussion thread to suggest any ideas you have framing the CFP (keeping in mind that we only have 35 words).

Thank you to all of our MLA 2016 panelists for two excellent RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions. I hope that we can build a repository of materials from this year’s (and future) panels so that we can continue and extend conversations beyond the conference itself.

There are two ways to upload materials to the forum and two places for forum members to…[Read more]

Congratulations to Peggy Otto on her election to the RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee! We welcome your participation in planning for the next several MLA Literacy Studies sponsored sessions and in building an active literacy studies online exchange in the MLA forum over the next several years.

The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Executive…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

We are very pleased to announce the two panels that the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2016. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there:
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m.
Transnational and Historical Perspectives: Literacy Studies’ Inaugural Forum Session
Presiding: Suzanne Blum Malley, Col…[Read more]