Dear Colleagues,
This is a reminder for you to propose or join a panel for Transnational Composition Standing Group’s Sponsored Panel @ C’s 2027 (proposal due by 11:59 pm EST on May 1st, 2026 for review). I am forwarding information about a proposed presentation idea. If you are interested in joining Marie for a sponsored panel, please reach out to Marie Amiri mamiri, or Xiqiao and Lisa. We are happy to facilitate! Below is Marie’s description of her project.
In my project, I take an ecological approach to study the migration writings of international graduate
students in the U.S. and explore the mutual impact of their writings and their ecologies. I argue that because international graduate school applicants need to navigate and negotiate with the complex and sometimes conflicting requirements of multiple institutions as they try to mobilize themselves physically, socially and economically, these laborious navigations qualify them to be migrant literate laborers.
In a collection of case studies, I conduct a round of literacy history and phenomenological interviews with 12 to 15 international graduate students in the U.S. to elicit their reconstruction of their migration writing experiences and their own interpretations of it to be able to map their writing ecologies. I also collect, analyze and conduct discourse-based interviews based on the writings that international student writers did in institutional genres during their migrating period. These writings include those produced for university applications, financial documents and correspondences related to universities and visa appointments, visa appointment forms and written documents, and practice notes for English proficiency tests, of course, the ones they can access at the time of the research. I analyze data using grounded theory. This study will complicate the available literature on the writings of international students as well as transnational writing by complicating the relationship between migration and literacy, but more importantly, this study has implications for the lived experiences of this population. By accounting for the social, economic, and political conditions that have informed their literacies, this study allows for a better understanding of these migrant writers for the savvy literate laborers that they are.
Below please find information about our CFP.
It is our pleasure to invite you to propose a panel on topics related to transnational composition research and teachingfor the 2027 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). This panel will be sponsored by the Transnational Composition Standing Group.
Preference will be given to panel proposals that speak to the conference’s theme, Design Writing Futures, as described in the 2027 conference call, and present strong alignment with one or more of the Transnational Composition Group’s objectives, simplified below:
- Expand the conceptual horizon of U.S. based teachers and scholars of college composition through an examination of postsecondary writing in other national contexts.
- Document how approaches to writing instruction and practice in a variety of national contexts interpenetrate and inform one another.
- Explore questions related to theories and ideologies of language, particularly the ways in which these issues shape and are shaped by language choices and standards, literacy practices, identity, power relations, and pedagogy in the context of transnational literacy instruction and scholarship.
- Address concerns about the role university-level writing teachers play in the commodification of composition instruction and theory in light of current global geopolitical relations.
International and non-US based scholars, early career teacher-scholars, and graduate students are especially encouraged to participate and/or serve as respondents.
Please submit panel proposals (no more than 4000 characters and spaces) for consideration by 11:59 pm EST on May 1st, 2026 (allowing us time to review proposals before the official date for submission to CCCC is May 27th, 2026). Please email your proposals to Xiqiao Wang xiw154 and Lisa Arnold (Associate Chai) lisa.r.arnold.
All proposals will be reviewed by members of the TCG Executive Committee (EC).
Please reach out for any questions. We are happy to support ideas that emerged from our social gathering/business meeting in Cleveland. We hope you’ll consider contributing to our sponsored panel at CCCC2026 and look forward to reading your submissions.
Best Regards,
Xiqiao and Lisa (on behalf of the EC)
Xiqiao Wang
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4iZv-A0AAAAJ&hl=en
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Pittsburgh