Hello, fellow writing teachers. I’m looking for some additional contributors for my book project, White Teacher Identity and the Teaching of Writing. It’s a quasi-edited collection with contributor chapters serving as artifacts of an overarching analysis. I envision this book as a learning tool for college writing teachers, graduate students, and even undergraduate English education majors. I want to develop a greater understanding of White writing teacher identity and equitable practices in the face of what Jupp et al. (2019) called the “demographic imperative” – a diversifying student population juxtaposed by a mostly unchanging majority White teacher workforce. Writing studies is a critical context for this work because of the ways race and language intersect.
Contributor chapters will be narratives exploring a critical incident or series of experiences which led to the construction of your White teacher identity and its impact on your teaching of racially and linguistically diverse students. Emphasis is on an impactful event or series of events and not on research and citations. If references are warranted, they should be kept to a minimum (4-5) and make sure they serve the narrative. Word count is 3000-5000.
I’m contracted with Peter Lang Publishing as part of their Studies in Composition and Rhetoric series, edited by Alice Horning.
If you’re interested, please email me with the following by December 1, 2025:
- a brief outline of a critical incident or experiences you would like to write about
- a description of your current teaching context (e.g. private university, community college, high school, public university, HSI, PWI, HBCU, etc.). I’m especially interested in those who teach or have taught at HBCUs.
The two requirements for contributors are that you identify as white and currently teach writing.
Thank you for your time. Let me know if you have any questions.
Kevin Lamkins, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
Professor of English
CT State: Capital
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