Deadline extended to Monday, December 1.

Calling all feminist teachers! Do you have an impactful teaching praxis that you’d like to share with the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC) at CCCC 2026 in Cleveland? If so, we want to hear from you!

During the CFSHRC Wednesday Night CCCCs 2025 event, many attendees wanted to talk about how to do feminist teaching “in these times,” meaning how to build classrooms, assignments, and structures to encourage students to think about inclusion, justice, and writing in the face of so many obstacles. Feminist teaching comprises a wide-range of practices that include: collaboration, community-building, decentering power, engaging the knowledge of students and marginalized people, dialogue, and reflection. The goal of these diverse praxes, according to Dale M. Bauer, is that “The feminist agenda offers a goal toward our students’ conversions to emancipatory social action” (389).

Moreover, as bell hooks writes in Teaching to Transgress, “The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy” (12). At this moment of political and financial uncertainty, as we witness challenges to academic freedom and declines in federal funding, we propose to use our collaborative space as we gather in Cleveland to share strategies for our classrooms so that we may bring these conversations about emancipatory social action back to our home campuses.

To that end, we invite you to submit proposals for a 7-10-minute hands-on demonstration of a feminist praxis that you use in their classrooms, to be presented during the first part of our annual CFSHRC Wednesday night event at Cs (March 4, 2026 6-8pm). A committee of three members will evaluate proposals and select a group of teach-in facilitators (3-5 presentations total) that represents the diversity of our membership.

Please complete the form below and include a short proposal (750 words or less) of your teach-in praxis that you’d like to share. Collaborative presentations welcome! Grad students welcome! All teaching-levels welcome!

Here’s the link to the form: https://forms.gle/UytM65A3eDYhqFHr8

Applications are due Monday, December 1, 2025. Notifications of decisions will go out early 2026 so that presenters have time to make travel arrangements. Presenters must be current CFSHRC members. If you have questions about this opportunity, please contact CFSHRC President, Becca Richards (rebecca_richards).

Thanks everyone! I hope to see many of you in Cleveland at our Wednesday Night Event (6-8pm) for this teach in and annual mentoring tables.

Best,
Becca Richards