Good morning!
This is a reminder about our CFP for the edited collection in honor of Mike Palmquist. We also wanted to let everyone know that we are extending the deadline for submitting proposals to February 15 (our original deadline had been February 1).
As we mentioned in previous posts, in spring 2024, Mike Palmquist will retire from his 34-year career at Colorado State University (CSU). For more than 25 of those years, he has served as the founding publisher and editor of the WAC Clearinghouse, a position that, thankfully, he plans to continue in for the foreseeable future.
Ann Blakeslee, Karen Peirce, and I are planning an edited collection to honor Mike, and we are inviting proposals that honor his many contributions to the field.
Mike has published widely in a number of areas, most notably open-access publishing, writing across the curriculum (WAC), computers and composition, and the status and working conditions of faculty in contingent positions. His work has resulted in significant innovations in our field’s approaches to publishing and disseminating work on writing, along with new ways of thinking about and teaching writing. Therefore, we are inviting submissions that address how Mike’s scholarly contributions in these areas, along with his vision and leadership of the Clearinghouse, have influenced and shaped the field of writing studies. We are also inviting future-focused contributions, addressing trends and/or likely future issues in any of these areas. We’ll be glad to consider proposals for both solo-authored or collaboratively authored pieces.
You can see theablakesle), Heather (heather.falconer), or Karen (kppeirce).
We hope you will consider submitting a proposal, and we look forward to working with many of you to honor Mike!
Heather, Ann, and Karen
Heather M. Falconer, PhD (she/her)Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Writing
Faculty Affiliate – Maine Center for Research in STEM Education
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