<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Dear All:<div><br></div><div>On behalf of the editorial team at <a href="http://xchanges.org">Xchanges</a>, I am delighted to inform you that our <a href="http://www.xchanges.org/welcome-to-issue-15-1">Spring 2020 Graduate Student Issue</a> is now live! This past year, we received an unprecedented number of article-length submissions, and with special thanks to our amazing faculty review board, we are sharing with you here the following three full-length articles:</div><div><br></div><div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px 25px;padding:0px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">"<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/the-shrine-of-chino-mine" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">The Shrine of Chino Mine: Extraction Rhetoric and Public Memory in Southern New Mexico</a></span>" by Kelli R. Lycke Martin<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">"<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/mimetics-as-digital-culture" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Mimetics as Digital Culture</a></span>" by Jacklyn Heslop<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">"<a href="http://www.xchanges.org/student-perceptions-of-writing-instruction" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Student Perceptions of Writing Instruction: Twitter as a Tool for Pedagogical Growth</span></a>" by Sarah Lonelodge and Katie Rieger<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li></ul><div>These authors have done amazing work, and we're thankful for the opportunity to feature it here.</div><div><br></div><div>This issue is for all intents and purposes a double issue, as <i>Xchanges</i> Associate Managing Editor Al Harahap and I also had the particular pleasure of working over the past year with graduate student leaders across a range of graduate organizations in the field in our role as coeditors of a <a href="http://www.xchanges.org/welcome-to-issue-15-1">Symposium on the Status of Graduate Study in Rhetoric and Composition</a>. As Al and I note in <a href="http://www.xchanges.org/symposium-on-graduate-study-intro">our introduction</a>, the authors of the eleven pieces collected in this symposium "<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">incisively define their identities as graduate students against particular problems, with consideration toward specific needs, and with an eye toward concrete solutions."</span></div><div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/symposium-on-graduate-study-intro" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Editor's Introduction: Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Students Define Their Identities Against Dominant Narratives</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Al Harahap and Brian Hendrickson |</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/media/blogs/xchanges/15_1/symposium-editor-intro_15-1.pdf" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">PDF</span></a></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/on-the-front-lines" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">On the Front Lines: Graduate Student Roles in Shaping Discourse in Digital Spaces</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Mandy Olejnik and Cara Marta Messina</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/subterranean-fire" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Subterranean Fire: The Percolating Currents of Graduate Labor Activism in Rhetoric and Composition</a></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Andrew Bowman and Bruce Kovanen</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/mental-health-in-a-disabling-landscape" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Mental Health in a Disabling Landscape: Forging Networks of Care in Graduate School</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Liz Miller</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/re-producing-e-motions" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">(Re)Producing (E)Motions: Motherhood, Academic Spaces, and Neoliberal Times</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Alexandria Hanson, Alejandra Ramirez, April M. Cobos, Heather Listhartke, & Skye Roberson</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/doing-it-herself" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Doing it Herself: Cultivating a Feminist Ecological Ethos as a Female Graduate Student</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Sarah Fischer, Laura Rosche, and Megan McCool</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/emerging-through-crt-counter-storytelling" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Emerging through Critical Race Theory Counter-storytelling in a Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Studies Context</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Caleb Lee González</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/unease-with-a-face-of-certainty" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Unease with a Face of Certainty: A Personal Rhetorical History of My Imposter Syndrome</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Sherwin Kawahakui Ranchez Sales</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/dont-talk-about-it" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Don’t Talk About It, Be About It: A Model of Material Support for Black Graduate Students</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Lida Colón, Digital Black Lit and Composition (DBLAC) </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/mentorship-affordability-and-equity" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Mentorship, Affordability, and Equity: Ways Forward in Writing Program Administration</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Amanda Presswood and Virginia M. Schwarz, Writing Program Administrators Graduate Organization (WPA-GO)</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">"<span style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/opportunity-exploitation" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">Opportunity/Exploitation</a></span>" </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">by Tom Polk, Alisa Russell, and Allie Sockwell Johnston, Writing Across the Curriculum Graduate Organization (WAC-GO)</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.xchanges.org/the-necessity-of-genre-disruption" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">The Necessity of Genre Disruption in Organizing an Advocacy Space for and by Graduate Students</a></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">" by Ashanka Kumari, Sweta Baniya, and Kyle Larson</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></li></ul>We hope you'll honor their stories, critiques, and recommendations - and the heart-work that went into each of them - by reading them closely and considering what you can do to contribute to a more equitable field for our graduate student colleagues.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please share this issue widely, use it as a teaching tool, and encourage your undergraduate and graduate students to submit by June 30 for consideration for next year's issues. It is our hope that <i>Xchanges</i> can continue to serve as an important site for students in writing studies and related fields to bring scholarly attention to the matters that matter most to them.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks as always for supporting <i>Xchanges</i>!</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Brian Hendrickson, PhD</div><div dir="ltr">Managing Editor, <a href="http://xchanges.org">Xchanges</a><br><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>Dept of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition</div><div>Roger Williams University</div><div><a href="mailto:bhendrickson@rwu.edu" target="_blank">bhendrickson@rwu.edu</a></div><div>Office Phone: (401) 254-3243</div><div>Office Location: GHH 239</div><div>Pronouns: he/him/his</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>