CFP: MLA 2025 RCWS Literacy Studies’ Guaranteed Session: Telling (on) Literacies

The MLA’s RCWS: Literacy Studies executive committee invites 250-word proposals for our panel entitled "Telling (on) Literacies," which addresses the MLA 2025 conference theme of Visibility. How can the act of telling reveal, legitimate, recover, or otherwise illuminate literacies that have historically been overlooked or inaccessible?

We invite panelists to speak to this theme as it applies across social settings and institutions, media, and modalities. We particularly encourage junior scholars and graduate students to submit. This is a guaranteed MLA session, so accepted proposals will be ensured a place in the 2025 convention (in New Orleans).

Proposals could reference:

• Unconventional methodologies of telling, such as autoethnography and fictional autobioethnography

• Counterstories

• Accessibility

• Recovery and recuperative reading and writing practices

• Narratives of code switching and code meshing

• Decentering literacies of whiteness

• Classroom praxis (whether K-12 or post secondary)

• Digital literacies and digital circulation of literacies

• Community literacy practices

• Literacies of resistance

• Surveillance and risks of telling

Submit 250-word individual or full panel proposals to Charissa Che (cche) by March 1st. Proposals will be reviewed by the RCWS Literacy Studies Committee, and notifications will be sent by the end of March.