Dear all,
The RCWS (Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies): Literacy Studies Executive Committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2025 conference theme of Visibility. Our panel, titled, "Telling (on) Literacies," asks: How can the act of telling reveal, legitimate, recover, or otherwise illuminate literacies that have historically been overlooked or inaccessible?
We invite panelists to speak to this theme as it applies across social settings and institutions, media, and modalities. We particularly encourage junior scholars and graduate students to submit. This is a guaranteed MLA session, so accepted proposals will be ensured a place on our 2025 convention panel.
Proposals could reference:
- Unconventional methodologies of telling, such as autoethnography and fictional autobioethnography
- Counterstories
- Accessibility
- Recovery and recuperative reading and writing practices
- Narratives and code switching and code meshing
- Decentering literacies of whiteness
- Classroom praxis (K-12 or post secondary)
- Digital literacies and digital circulation of literacies
- Community literacy practices
- Literacies of resistance
- Surveillance and risks of telling
Submit 250-word individual or full panel proposals, with the subject line, RCWS Proposal, to Charissa Che (cche) by March 1st. Proposals will be reviewed by the RCWS Literacy Studies Committee, and notifications will be sent by the end of March.
Sincerely,
Charissa
Charissa Che, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Associate Chair, TYCA (Two-Year College Association)
Chair, RCWS Literacy Studies Committee, MLA
Book Review Editor, TETYC (Teaching English at the Two-Year College)
Associate Editor, Journal of Basic Writing