[ATTW-L] Xchanges Call for Subs: Grad and Undergrad Research / CFP: Grad Symposium

[Hendrickson, Brian]

Dear All (with apologies for cross-posting):
We're currently inviting submissions for the next two issues of Xchanges<http://www.xchanges.org/>, an open access, blind faculty-reviewed journal of graduate and undergraduate research in Technical Communication, Writing/Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum.

If you're a graduate or undergraduate student working on primary research in a writing studies-related field, please consider submitting your work. And if you teach graduate students or upper-division undergrads, please share this call with them and encourage them to submit.

The submission deadline for issues 14.2 (our fall issue featuring undergraduate student research) and 15.1 (our spring issue featuring graduate student research) is June 30. We consider work in both "traditional" and multimodal formats.

We've also been circulating a call (included below) for 150-200 word proposals from graduate student members of CCCC Caucuses/SIGs for a symposium on the state of graduate study in rhetoric and composition, which we'll be publishing in Issue 15.1. The deadline for proposals is June 1. If this call pertains to you, please consider submitting a proposal, or if it pertains to graduate students you mentor, please encourage them to submit.

Check out our issue directory<http://www.xchanges.org/i> for examples of the amazing graduate and undergraduate scholarship we've been publishing. See our submission<http://www.xchanges.org/sub-1> page for more info. And please send questions and submissions to bhendrickson at rwu.edu<mailto:bhendrickson at rwu.edu>.

Thanks for supporting Xchanges!

Al Harahap and Brian Hendrickson
Managing Editors, Xchanges
Symposium Co-Editors

*****

Dear CCCC Caucus/SIG graduate students,

Xchanges<http://xchanges.org> is planning a symposium issue on the state of graduate study in Rhetoric/Composition. We would like to invite graduate students to participate in this issue with shorter 1500-2000 word pieces. Toward this end, we have thus far collaborated with three groups: NextGen, WAC-GO, and WPA-GO in identifying significant key terms in the word cloud attached, with the three most central to be: support, mentoring, and inclusivity. Other terms include: accessibility, antiracism, equity, guidance, justice, labor, network, precarity, and sustainability.

Xchanges is a faculty-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes two issues annually: one featuring undergraduate and one graduate student scholarship in Rhet/Comp and related disciplines. Because we are a publication focused on honoring the intellectual work of students in our field, we felt the time was appropriate to publish the forthcoming symposium, given recent racist, sexist, marginalizing conversations on WPA-L that graduate students loudly protested; continuing trends in higher ed that render graduate study all the more precarious a pursuit; and a rise over the past decade of graduate student organizing in Rhet/Comp.

Some specific issues you might consider addressing in your contribution include but are not limited to:

  *   What do you see as graduate students’ roles in Rhet/Comp? What have they been historically? Where should they go looking ahead?
  *   What are the specific factors that make the graduate student experience a difficult one? Difficult for what kinds of graduate students specifically? And why?
  *   How can the field at large or in specific spaces, such as conferences, journals, online forums, and the job search process, to name but a few, be more inclusive, supportive, or even just mindful of the graduate student experience? How can the field make these spaces more accessible and equitable?
  *   What is the state of graduate student labor in the field? How might we continue to address and mitigate labor exploitation?
  *   What kind of mentoring do graduate students expect from the field? What kind of mentoring have you received? What other kinds of personal, institutional, organizational, or disciplinary support systems help graduate students in our field?
  *   What are some effective ways for graduate students to build networks in the field?
  *   How might graduate students find allyship with other marginalized populations such as alt-academics and contingent faculty?
  *   How can graduate students reconcile the need to speak up in public spaces with their precarious and vulnerable positions?

We welcome a variety of modes, including but not limited to: problem identifications, calls to action, theory, bibliographical (summary) essays, empirical work, personal narratives, creative pieces, dialogues, interviews. We also encourage collaborative proposals by groups.

While we do not expect you to represent and be the voice of the caucus(es) or SIG(s) you identify with, we would certainly welcome anything you have to say to be informed by your experiences as part of these specific communities within Rhet/Comp.

If interested, please send your 150-200 word proposal to bhendrickson at rwu.edu<mailto:bhendrickson at rwu.edu> and harahap at ou.edu<mailto:harahap at ou.edu> with your name and institutional affiliation by June 1, 2019. We expect to inform you of our decisions by June 15, with first drafts due by July 31, revisions in the fall, and publication in the spring 2020 issue.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://attw.org/pipermail/attw-l_attw.org/attachments/20190524/22bdb230/attachment-0001.htm>