Greetings all,
We are writing to announce recently published books in the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) series! These new books support innovative research and practice that explores how writing and rhetoric are currently and have been historically taught, practiced, and circulated within communities. They apply to writing practices in colleges, workplaces, and neighborhoods, and are relevant in local, national, international contexts as well as digital contexts. Short, accessible, and highly engaging, consider adopting one or more of these titles for your teaching.
In Decolonial Possibilities: Indigenously Rooted Practices in Rhetoric and Writing, edited by Lisa King and Andrea Riley Mukavetz, contributors take up the call to decolonize the university in whatever ways possible, from teaching to administrative work to publishing.
In Transnational Assemblages: Social Justice and Crisis Communication during Disaster, Sweta Baniya illustrates how local knowledge and marginalized perspectives during disasters create opportunities for tackling social injustices in post-disaster situations via coalitional and transnational engagements.
The collection Memoria: Essays in Honor of Victor Villanueva edited by Asao B. Inoue, Wendy Olson, and Siskanna Naynaha focuses on three sections—Memoria of Rhetoric, Memoria of Mentoring, and Memoria of Relations—inviting the reader to sit alongside one of the field’s pioneers and to experience the power of his influence on the discipline.
Coming soon in 2025/26…
Jessica Pauszek’s Worker Writers: Community Archiving in Action (pre-order) This monograph brings together conversations in community literacy, archival methods, and working-class studies to explore the process of collaboratively creating an archive
A second edition of Counterstory by Aja Martinez. Motivated by post-2020 contextual realities that engulfed the first edition of Counterstory in controversy, Martinez’s next iteration of this book engages new research in the New York University archive of CRT founder Derrick Bell. This revised and expanded edition is a hypothesis confirmed through Bell’s own archive: the answer was always story. This 2nd edition features a new foreword and afterword (respectively) by CRT luminaries Daniel G. Solórzano and Jean Stefancic, a post-2020 prologue and epilogue by the author, revised appendices with teaching materials, undergraduate student counterstory examples, and more.
Recollections from Our Common Places: 4C21–23 Documentarian Tales This edited collection narrates authors’ experiences on the days of the CCCC Convention in 2021, 2022, and 2023, foregrounding contrasts and commonalities between virtual and in-person conferences, and addressing such themes and issues as professional growth and belonging, forms of participation, the professional life of the field, accessibility, and work-life balance.
Check out all of the SWR books on the NCTE website (select CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric series in the left sidebar), and learn more about publishing in the series here.
Warmly,
Stephanie Kerschbaum, SWR Editor
Taiko Aoki-Marcial, SWR Associate Editor