Greetings!
Please find below the CFP for proposals for the Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group’s sponsored panel at the 2025 CCCC. We have reopened this call and are requesting proposals be submitted by Monday May 27. Thank you!
TJ
Call for Proposals
Religious Rhetorics and “‘Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity”
CCCC Sponsored Panel | Rhetoric & Religious Traditions Standing Group | April, 2025 | Baltimore, MD
The Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group is pleased to invite individual or panel proposals for our sponsored panel at CCCCs in Baltimore that respond to the spirit of the conference theme: “‘Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity.” We are interested in proposals that examine innovative engagement with religious belief and/or practice. For example, proposals might consider when writers or rhetors use religious rhetorics in unexpected and compelling ways, where religious groups work within a community or together across differences, how people engage with religion in experimental and underappreciated ways, who undertakes creative and inventive ways of performing religious rhetorics, and why it is important to attend to the “B-sides” of religious rhetorics. These suggestions are meant to provide inspiration and not to limit proposals. We conceive of religious rhetorics broadly and inclusively and invite contributions that contend with many traditions. We welcome individual proposals as well as complete panel proposals.
Proposal submission timeline
- Monday, May 27: Proposals due to the SG by midnight (email as Word document to rrtstandinggroup)
- Wednesday, May 29. Notifications about decisions regarding proposals sent
- Friday, May 31. CCCCs proposal deadline
Proposal suggestions
- Situate panel within current scholarship about religious rhetorics
- Follow 4Cs proposal guidelines regarding length of panel proposals, etc.
- Consult chapter 6 from Berkenkotter & Huckin’s Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication (Erlbaum, 1995) for tips on how to frame an effective proposal
Questions? Contact one of our officers:
- Melody Pugh, Chair (pugh.melody)
- T J Geiger II, Vice Chair (TJ.Geiger)
- Samuel Stinson, Communications (samuel.stinson)
- Joseph Jeyaraj, Secretary (jeyarajjoseph)
- Jake Buller-Young, Treasurer (jbuller1)
- Jim Beitler, Immediate Past Chair (jim.beitler)
With hope,
T J Geiger II, PhD (he/him)
Assistant Professor of English
Author of Faithful Deliberation: Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings
"Grace abounds and love is real."