Event: CFSHRC Wednesday Night Event at CCCCs 2026, March 4 6-8pm

Posted on by

Dear Coalition Colleagues,

Mark your calendars for the annual CFSHRC Wednesday Night Event at Cs 2026 on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8pm in the Huntington Convention Center, Meeting Room 203. This year’s event is “Feminist Pedagogies ‘In These Times’– a Teach-In.”

During our 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 will 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.

The first hour (6-7pm) of the event will be announcements, awards, and three teach-ins. Our teach-in presenters (and their topics) are:

  • Jessica Ridgeway, Norfolk State University, “Exploring Black Women’s Digital Rhetoric: from Silenced to Uproariousness (A Rhetoric for #JUSTus)”

  • Munira Mutmainna, St. John’s University, “Walking as Praxis: Embodied Knowledge in Decentering Power in the Composition Classroom”

  • Melody Bowdon and Xaria Arthur, University of Central Florida, “Rhetoric, Mindframes, and the Intersectional Feminist Classroom”

If time allows, we hope to have table discussions of the teach-ins following the presentations.

The second hour (7-8pm) will feature our annual mentoring tables. This year, we crowdsourced topics from you, our members. Here is the list of mentoring tables and the table leaders:

  1. Writing (and Publishing) a Book: Elizabeth Ellis Miller, Jess Enoch, and Krista Ratcliffe

  2. Community-Facing Pedagogy: Risa Applegarth and David Gold

  3. Loving the Work But Hating the Job: Timothy Oleksiak and Patty Wilde

  4. Feminist Leadership: Xaria Arthur and Melody Bowdon

  5. The Job Market: Kate Burt and Sayed Ali Reza Ahmadi

  6. I Just Wanna Meet Folks–A Table for Feminist Conversations: Kelli Gill And Samira Grayson

  7. Thriving In (and Surviving) Graduate School: Aubrey Fochs and Melissa Nicolas

  8. How To Build a Writing Group: Moushumi Biswas, Amy Lueck, and Jenna Vinson

  9. Preparing for Promotions–Tips for the Dossier and Reviewer List: Jen Almjeld and Lynee Gaillet

Many thanks to our table leaders for offering their time and expertise to us!

Everyone is welcome at our event: members, non-members, friends, children, family, and the like. Like last year, we will attempt to stream the first hour on Zoom for those who cannot attend in person. To register for the Zoom, please use this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/posQ0j5ZR-aC5SXrf-aeWQ

Please note, however, that internet bandwidth at conference centers tends to be unreliable, and I apologize in advance if the Zoom fails.

Finally, below you’ll find sharable images for the event so, if you’d like, you can invite others to attend.

I hope you can join us on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8pm!

Best wishes,

Becca Richards, President