[ATTW-L] #CFP: Edited Collection on Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander

[Wilfredo Flores]

Hello!

We (Wilfredo Flores and Michael Faris) write to invite proposals for an edited collection we are planning tentatively titled Queer (Im)Possibilities in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Honoring and Extending the Work of Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes. You can read the full CFP for the edited collection at this link <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZxzDQY4kshxMHjLOtwxYYWol7-nqNpNoE7S6IIAqHYg/edit#heading=h.idsqm09lju4k>, which also contains generative questions and an identified publication timeline.

This edited collection invites contributors to consider how Alexander and Rhodes’s work has shaped the field and to extend their contributions to new sites, questions, and problems. We imagine this edited collection to mix the format of editions that have collected scholars’ previous works—like Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede’s Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice <https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/product/Writing-Together/p/0312601786>—with the approach of edited collections that honor or apply a scholars’ oeuvre, like Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley <https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3720-reinventing-with-theory-in-rhetoric-and-writing-studies> (Alden et al.); Writing as a Human Activity: Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman <https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/human/> (Rogers et al.); and Reading Sedgwick <https://www.dukeupress.edu/reading-sedgwick> (Berlant). This collection, then, will reprint influential works by Alexander and Rhodes—such as “Queer: An Impossible Subject for Composition”—and original essays by scholars in the field reflecting on and extending their work.

We invite proposals of roughly 250–400 words that tug at the modal boundaries of print-based scholarship, that probe the heterosexist lattice that, still, comprises writing and rhetoric, that provoke the field with the task of queer theory today, and that, perhaps most importantly, play seriously. Because we seek to include as many diverse voices as possible, final original chapters will be limited to 4,000 words (including works cited or references). We invite chapters that are concise yet provocative and generative. Individual chapters might respond to a single publication coauthored by Alexander and Rhodes, or they might respond to a thread or argument woven throughout their collaborative oeuvre (refer to the list of collaborative publications at the end of the CFP). Also, in the spirit of promiscuous collaboration, we encourage collaborative proposals—especially collaborations across differences (age, academic rank, gender, race, sexual identity, kink, institutional affiliation, etc.).

To submit your proposal, please see this Google Form link <https://forms.gle/5r4meSqzY2B2m7gz5>. Your submission should comprise: 1) your potential title, 2) your name(s), 3) your pronouns, 4) your institutional affiliation(s), 5) your email address(es), and 6) (of course) your proposal of 250-400 words. We also welcome questions sent to Wilfredo Flores (wilflores at uncc.edu <mailto:wilflores at uncc.edu>) and Michael J. Faris (michaeljfaris at gmail.com <mailto:michaeljfaris at gmail.com>). Please include “Homo Collection” in the subject line.

—Wilfredo & Michael

Wilfredo Flores, PhD
Assistant Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
wilfredoflores.com <http://wilfredoflores.com/>
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