Greetings!
The Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition is excited to invite proposals for our 2026 4Cs sponsored panel, which will focus on graduate coursework pedagogies. We are looking for faculty panelists and graduate student respondents. Deadline is May 19th. The cfp is pasted below and accessible here.
Best Wishes,
Laura
The Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition invites you to submit a proposal for our sponsored panel at CCCC 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio. Our focus will be graduate coursework pedagogies. While scholars in the field have addressed graduate mentoring in rich and substantive ways, we have yet to make visible how we teach graduate seminars—that is, aside from the frequently required Teaching College Writing seminar (or its equivalent). In addition, very few faculty have received training to teach at the graduate-level, instead leaning on models from their time as students or pedagogical approaches they learned while teaching first-year composition and other undergraduate courses.
Given the complex, diverse, always changing needs of graduate students, we aim to start a conversation about coursework pedagogy that will also be the subject of our open meetings during the coming academic year. For the panel, we invite proposals that might address any of the following topics, and welcome others not mentioned here:
Writing pedagogies
Reading pedagogies
Classroom management & organization
Core vs specialized course pedagogies
Student learning differences
Assessment practices
Community-based pedagogies
Critical pedagogies
DEI approaches
We seek proposals from faculty members at any career stage who actively teach graduate courses in writing studies. We also invite statements of interest from current graduate students who would like to serve as panel respondents. To submit, please send the following to Laura Micciche (laura.micciche) by May 19 (we’ll return decisions by May 23):
Faculty proposers:
- Brief bio
- ~200-word description of your intended focus
Graduate student respondents:
- Brief bio
- ~100-word statement of interest in panel participation
Please note that being part of a sponsored panel does not limit participation on other panels as a speaker, chair, or respondent. Also, sponsored panels are guaranteed to be included on the program. We look forward to reading your work!
Professor Laura Micciche (Mitch-uh-key)
Chair, Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric & Composition
Co-Director, Copyediting & Publishing Certificate Program
Area Director, Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Composition
Co-Editor, WPA Book Series for Parlor Press
225B A&S Hall, University of Cincinnati
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