<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Godwin Agboka and I are excited to announce that we are inviting chapter proposals for an edited collection ti</font></font>tled "Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methods, and Topics." </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you have questions or would like to discuss your ideas for a chapter, please feel free to contact us. </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Proposals are due <b>December 30, 2018</b>. The full CFP is pasted below the sig, and you can view a digital copy as a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ber2tzzCHCGb4W7PJSgWZF-IZqlY70QKVLu6Q5E6D_o/edit?usp=sharing">Google Doc</a>. Please share widely and let us know if you have any questions!</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Rebecca and Godwin</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small">Rebecca Walton </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small">Editor, Technical Communication Quarterly </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small">Associate Professor, Technical Communication & Rhetoric </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small">Department of English, Utah State University </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:small">Preferred Gender Pronouns: she/her/hers</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">_______________________________</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d6955019-7fff-87ed-02f1-c27fcf7131ac"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Edited Collection Call for Chapter Proposals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methods, and Topics</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Themes of social justice have appeared in technical and professional communication (TPC) scholarship for more than two decades. However, it was not until around the 2000s that scholars began to explicitly interrogate theories, methodologies, practices, and the institutional and disciplinary challenges of enacting social justice (e.g., Agboka, 2013/2014; Colton & Holmes, 2016; Haas, 2012; Jones, 2016a/b; Jones & Walton, 2018; Jones, Moore, & Walton, 2016;</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Leydens & Lucena 2017; Leydens, 2014</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Walton, 2013; Walton, Zraly, & Mugengana, 2015). As Williams (2013) describes: “These scholars are taking the traditional description of technical communication as a field that advocates for the user to a new and exciting level by focusing on historically marginalized groups and issues related to race, class, gender, and sexuality...” (pp. 87–88). This scholarship has spurred a social justice turn in the field of TPC in which the focus on critical </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">analysis </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">which informed the cultural turn of the 1990s extends into a focus on critical </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">action</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In TPC, social justice research “investigates how communication, broadly defined, can amplify the agency of oppressed people—those who are materially, socially, politically, and/or economically under-resourced. Key to this definition is a collaborative, respectful approach that moves past description and exploration of social justice issues to taking action to redress inequities” (Jones & Walton, 2018). This kind of work is burgeoning, with considerations of social justice informing conference themes, conference roundtables, journal special issue topics, and award-winning scholarship. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Social justice scholarship in TPC has explored, among many other topics, the complexities of navigating and engaging unenfranchised contexts (Agboka, 2013/2014; Dura, Singhal, & Elias, 2013; Walton, Price, & Zraly, 2013; Walton, Zraly,& Mugengana, 2015); issues of race and programmatic diversity (Jones, 2014; Jones, Savage, & Yu, 2014; Savage & Mattson, 2011; Savage & Matveeva, 2011); the interstices of gender, sexuality, rhetoric, and technical communication (Cox, & Faris, 2015; Frost, 2015; Petersen, 2014); and considerations of translation and localization (Gonzales & Turner, 2017; Rose & Racadio, 2017; Shivers-McNair, 2017). The apparent implication is that TPC is a field actively engaged in decolonial, advocacy, and civic work. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While we are excited by this important and necessary scholarship, we are concerned that relatively few resources are available within the field to directly support and inform it. In other words, despite a wave of social justice scholarship in the field, a number of TPC scholars—both emerging and established—have limited understanding of social justice or feel ill equipped to pursue it in their work, wondering, “How do I incorporate social justice into my technical communication courses? How can I uphold principles of social justice in my research? What theories are well suited to framing and informing socially just TPC? How could considerations of social justice inform practices of, say, UX or content management or technical editing?”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To address these types of questions, we put forth this call for chapters for the edited collection: “Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methodologies, and Topics.” For this edited collection, we envision each chapter honing in on a particular theory, methodology, or topic and explicating both its promise and its threats to socially just technical communication. We encourage potential contributors to consider how a theory (e.g. sociotechnical systems theory, queer theories, critical race theory, etc.), topic (e.g. UX, medical rhetoric), or research methodology (community action research, decolonial research) informs or shapes social justice work in any TPC-relevant context (e.g. classroom, corporate, civic).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposal Requirements</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In approximately 500 words (not including references), please convey the following:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Theory/methodology/topic:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> What is the tool, lens, or resource with which you seek to equip readers interested in conducting more socially just technical communication?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Relevance to social justice:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> In what ways does your theory/methodology/topic relate to social justice? Why is it a promising tool, lens, or resource for the work of social justice? What concerns or cautions might you give technical communicators interested in social justice who are approaching this theory/methodology/topic?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Relevance to technical and professional communication: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How will your chapter contribute to existing scholarly conversations in TPC? What considerations of the field will this chapter address? On whose scholarly shoulders will this work stand?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What are some promising sites of application for socially just technical communication involving your theory/methodology/topic? For example, university undergraduate classrooms? Non-traditional workplaces? Field research with vulnerable populations?</span></p></li></ul><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Guidelines</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please attach chapter proposal submissions as a Word file and email to both Rebecca Walton (</span><a href="mailto:rebecca.walton@usu.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">rebecca.walton@usu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and Godwin Agboka (</span><a href="mailto:agbokag@uhd.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">agbokag@uhd.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). We encourage potential contributors to email proposal ideas and questions well in advance of the submission deadline. We’re happy to talk through ideas with you.</span></h3><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timeline</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dec. 30, 2018:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chapter proposals due </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jan. 31, 2019: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposal decisions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">May 1, 2019: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Work Sans";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab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