Literate Activity is committed to sharing scholarship about how people act-with textual practices in the world. As a unit of analysis, literate activity offers a way to address the rich variety of cultural, semiotic resources, practices, and activities entangled throughout people’s engagements with what are typically referred to as “writing" and “reading.” We see literate activity as textuality in the most situated, and broadest senses. For the former, it includes moment-to-moment activity in the production and/or composition of written text-artifacts; for the latter, it also encompasses textual and semiotic activity broadly distributed across sociocultural action. We see scholarship on literate activity as a way of keeping in play the situated and dispersed complexities of how people act with text-artifacts in the world, and we publish scholarship that embraces complexity in theoretical and methodological approaches needed to make such actions visible.
To see the CFP, please visit: https://wac.colostate.edu/literate-activity/
Deadline is October 31, 2025. Details: https://wac.colostate.edu/literate-activity/call1/
Dr. Kristen Welch, Assistant Professor of English, Spartanburg Methodist College
Associate Publisher for Marketing and Advancement, WAC Clearinghouse