Greetings!
Please find below the CFP for proposals for the Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group’s sponsored panel at the 2026 CCCC. We are requesting proposals–for individual presentations or complete panels–be submitted by Tuesday May 27. Thank you!
TJ
Call for Proposals
Religious Rhetorics and “Conferences and Our Conversations”
CCCC Sponsored Panel | Rhetoric & Religious Traditions Standing Group | March, 2026 | Cleveland, OH
The Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group is pleased to invite individual or panel proposals for our sponsored panel at CCCCs in Cleveland. Program Chair Melissa Ianetta, in the call for proposals, “Conferences and Our Conversations,” writes, “Rather than encourage you to frame your contributions to the 2026 theme, I instead invite you to share what you are working on right now, to offer up what contribution matters to you most.” In this spirit, we are interested in proposals that examine any aspects of religious rhetorics of interest to scholars and teachers of writing and rhetoric. 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
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Tuesday, May 27: Proposals due to the SG by midnight (email as Word document to T J Geiger II (TJ.Geiger)
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Friday, May 30. Notifications about decisions regarding proposals sent
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Monday, June 2. CCCCs proposal deadline
Proposal suggestions
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Situate panel within current scholarship about religious rhetorics
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Follow 4Cs proposal guidelines regarding length of panel proposals, etc.
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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:
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T J Geiger II, Chair (TJ.Geiger)
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Samuel Stinson, Communications (samuel.stinson)
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Joseph Jeyaraj, Secretary (jeyarajjoseph)
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Jake Buller-Young, Treasurer (jbuller1)
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Melody Pugh, Immediate Past Chair (pugh.melody)
With hope,
T J Geiger II, PhD (he/him)
Author of Faithful Deliberation: Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings