Dear Teaching of Writing forum members:

MLA has tentatively approved a new forum for Literacy Studies under the Rhetoric and Writing Studies group, but it needs 35 MLA members to sign the petition by June 15 in order for the forum to make for the 2014 year. Currently, 8 people have signed the petition, which is located here:…[Read more]

The Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:

The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]

<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>

Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA

sdonohue@cocc.edu

While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a learning…[Read more]

The Winter 2014 (Vol. 18, Iss. 4) Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice.  Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work, including qualitative and empirical…[Read more]

This session is sponsored by the Division on the Teaching of Literature:

Whether instructors opt to have students engage in “close reading” or “slow reading,” there is an increasing interest in encouraging them to spend more time lingering over texts–reading carefully, attentively, and thoughtfully. In large part a response to a cultural…[Read more]

Dear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,

CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.

<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]

Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has
just published its latest issue at
http://www.canada-and-beyond.com/index.php/canada-and-beyond. We invite you
to browse the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review
articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Pilar…[Read more]

Idaho State University (ISU) has a distinctive program Ph.D. program that might interest members of this group or their students.

The Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English integrates research in literature with practical and theoretical training in the teaching of composition and literature. The aim of the program is to prepare graduates…[Read more]