<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Submit your chapter proposal for our new edited collection on <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> in <span class="gmail-il">writing</span> <span class="gmail-il">studies</span>!</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt">SUMMARY</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px">We are seeking proposals for chapters about your experience with <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> in research, work, and/or teaching. Chapters should be 2,000-3,000 words long, written in a first-person narrative style, and based on lived experience. We are developing this collection in preparation for the WAC Clearinghouse <span class="gmail-il">Practices</span> & Possibilities book series, with an audience of graduate students in mind. The collection will be an accessible, real take on how we deal with <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> in our work—including both mess and success. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Submit your proposal (up to 500 words, not including citations) to the following email:<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><a href="mailto:positionality.stories@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-weight:700;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline"><span class="gmail-il">positionality</span>.stories@gmail.com</span></a><span style="margin:0px">.</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2">WORKING TITLE</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0762939pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-style:italic;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-il">Storied</span> <span class="gmail-il">Practices</span>: <span class="gmail-il">Positionality</span> in <span class="gmail-il">Writing</span> <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0762939pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">EDITORS</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0762939pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">Kristine Acosta, Michelle Cowan, Rebecca Rickly, Sierra Sinor, Nancy Small, Erica M. Stone</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0762939pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0762939pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">LINK TO FULL CFP</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0762939pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfLdEmx8diFnVIEC9KjXpcwXXv5qgjtJ00P4U8-8htE/edit?usp=sharing" id="m_-8089261542516530709OWAaf2a4995-bbb3-6d01-e0fb-3802e50412b9" target="_blank" style="margin:0px">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NfLdEmx8diFnVIEC9KjXpcwXXv5qgjtJ00P4U8-8htE/edit?usp=sharing</a></span></p><div style="font-weight:bold;margin:0px"></div><div style="font-weight:bold;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">MOTIVATION AND RATIONALE</span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Graduate programs in <span class="gmail-il">Writing</span> <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span> and in Communication <span class="gmail-il">Studies</span> value research: almost every program requires at least one course on methods and methodologies for knowledge making. Research capabilities empower us. However, if we aren’t careful, research can  dehumanize and colonize (Agboka, 2014; Tuhiwai Smith, 2012; Walton, 2016). At all stages of the process, one aspect of better ethical practice is asking ourselves to address </span><span style="font-style:italic;margin:0px"><span class="gmail-il">positionality</span></span><span style="margin:0px">, the embodied and contextualized forms influencing (and possibly biasing) what we hear/see/do when conducting, analyzing, and publishing our projects (Rowe, 2014). Despite growing awareness of these risks and opportunities, however, <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span>-as-a-practice is less directly discussed in our graduate programs, let alone in the research publications themselves.</span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">We want to continue shifting the research paradigm toward engaging <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span>-as-practice. Although <span class="gmail-il">writing</span> and communication fields have been attending to critical consideration of these issues (e.g., Lockett, Ruiz, Sanchez, & Carter, 2021), analysis tends to revisit the work of others rather than inviting authors to speak to their own projects. As a result, teachers and learners lack insider-narrated models for how <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> operates in research. We need what Kirsch and Ritchie (2008) call a "rigorously reflexive examination of ourselves" (p. 143). To best address that gap, we turn to </span><span style="font-style:italic;margin:0px">story</span><span style="margin:0px"> as a reflective vehicle for this collection. Storytelling creates spaces outside the strict procedural lines of production and allows us to reveal our situated ponderings as individuals engaged in complicated activities. Contemporary scholarship continues to amplify the value of storywork as experts elucidate theories and <span class="gmail-il">practices</span> for it as a methodology (see, for example, Archibald, Lee-Morgan, & De Santolo, 2019; Martinez, 2020; Wilson, 2008; Windchief & San Pedro, 2019). For this edited collection, we invite you to join in shifting the paradigm and to share your story as a means of relating and reflecting over your <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> in research-related roles and experiences. </span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-weight:700;margin:0px"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">PROJECT VISION AND GOALS </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">We envision this book as a conversation surrounding <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> and the lived experiences of researchers and their participants. Using narrative as a vehicle, we hope to promote stories that do not shy away from the complexities of research. We want to know how others interrogate themselves while completing research and the impacts this has on both product and person. It is our goal for future readers of this book to be able to refer to authentic examples of what the research process looks like and what the connection to the researcher looks like within that process. We welcome stories that discuss different kinds of positioning, failure, and how people find themselves in relation to their work. Reflection on past experiences and examples of using <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> in research will be especially important within this collection. While the proposal has been accepted by WAC Clearinghouse, publication will be contingent upon external reviewer feedback. Accepted authors will be expected to revise according to reviewer comments.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">CHAPTER CONTENT</span><span style="font-weight:700;margin:0px"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">We are seeking proposals for chapters written in a first-person narrative and/or reflexive style, planned to be 2,000-3,000 words long. The focus should be on lived experience and positionalities rather than on literature reviews and/or theory-building. The following topics and questions are offered to indicate the kinds of <span class="gmail-il">storied</span> <span class="gmail-il">practices</span> we hope to cultivate.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">Their </span><span style="margin:0px">Stories/Our Stories:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">When conducting research focused on other people’s stories, how do we (as researchers, participants, community members) successfully interweave or make space for our own stories? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">What are the ethical, political, professional, and personal implications of the decision to bring ourselves into conversation with the ostensible topics and/or communities of the research project?</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-weight:700;margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"></span><span style="margin:0px">Tensions of Objectivity:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">If all research (regardless of method/ology) is a story in which we are participants, what happens when researchers are trained to distance ourselves from the story and take a “disembodied view from nowhere” (Bordo, 1993)? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">What do we, as researchers, do with the tension between the desire for objectivity and the need for our embodied presence?</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="line-height:normal;margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="line-height:normal;margin:0px">Teaching <span class="gmail-il">Positionality</span>:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="line-height:normal;margin:0px">How do we teach <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span>? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="line-height:normal;margin:0px">How do issues of <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> show up in publication, dissertation, conferences, and other academic sharing/gath</span><span style="margin:0px">ering spaces?</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">Troubling <span class="gmail-il">Positionality</span>:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">How might we extend, question, and otherwise trouble <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> as a central concept?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">How do we go beyond surface-level acknowledgements of <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span>, privilege, and power (Walton, Moore, & Jones, 2016; García & Kirsch, 2022)?</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px"></span><span style="margin:0px"><span class="gmail-il">Positionality</span> as Action:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">How do we put <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> theory into practice? </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">Can we break down existing infrastructures and subvert the status quo in ways that honor the value of diverse research approaches? </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-weight:700;margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">SOLICITATION AND REVIEW PROCESSES</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">We encourage contributions from diverse authors, including multiply-marginalized scholars, graduate students, contingent faculty, community organizers, and scholars who have chosen to leave academia for industry. Our process engages anti-racist reviewing <span class="gmail-il">practices</span> as recommended by Cagle, et. al. (2021) and in the 2022 special issue of </span><a href="https://journals.shareok.org/writersccjournal/issue/view/4/12" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-style:italic;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline">Writers: Craft & Context.</span></a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-weight:700;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;width:100px;display:inline-block"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">TIMELINE</span><span style="margin:0px"> </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">October 2, 2023: Proposal deadline</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">November 6, 2023: Responses sent to all proposers</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">March 15, 2024: Completed chapters due</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">May 6, 2024: Preliminary review complete, chapters returned for revision</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">July 8, 2024: Revised chapters due, manuscript proofread and compiled</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">September 2, 2024: Final manuscript submitted to WAC for external review</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="font-weight:700;margin:0px"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR CHAPTERS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">Please submit your proposal (up to 500 words, not including citations) to the following email: </span><a href="mailto:positionality.stories@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-weight:700;margin:0px;text-decoration-line:underline"><span class="gmail-il">positionality</span>.stories@gmail.com</span></a><span style="margin:0px">.</span><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">Include the following information:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0.0763245pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2;margin-right:41.1083pt"><span style="margin:0px">Name and contact email </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2;margin-right:41.1083pt"><span style="margin:0px">Title of the proposed piece</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">A summary of the chapter’s proposed content (up to 500 words)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.2"><span style="margin:0px">Specific answers to these two questions: 1) </span><span style="margin:0px">What led you to suggest this chapter for consideration? 2) </span><span style="margin:0px">How does your own <span class="gmail-il">positionality</span> play into your choice to propose this chapter? </span></p></li></ul><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px"></span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Feel free to contact </span><a href="mailto:positionality.stories@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span class="gmail-il">positionality</span>.stories@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> with any questions. </span><br clear="all"></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><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>—</b></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"></span><br>
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