Calling all feminist teachers! Do you have an impactful teaching praxis that you’d like to share with the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC) at CCCC 2026 in Cleveland? If so, we want to hear from you! During the CFSHRC Wednesday Night CCCCs 2025 event, many attendees wanted to […]
Dear Coalition Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. I’m writing with the happy news of announcing the award announcements for the Presidents’ Dissertation Award, the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, and the Nancy A Myers Feminist Research Grant. Please see descriptions online and on our webpage. Please consider nominating and applying! See […]
Greetings! In response to continued interest, the Coalition is pleased to offer our online mentoring program again this year! Whether you are new to the program or are returning to it, the online mentoring arrangement is a way for us to share knowledge about research, teaching, activism, and professional development by matching mentor-mentee pairs who will collaboratively […]
The Peitho Editorial Team is proud to announce the publication of the summer 2025 issue, guest-edited by Jen Almjeld and Sarah Hagelin. The topic of the issue is Menstrual Rhetorics and Girlhood Culture, and Almjeld and Hagelin write: This issue is a scholarly contribution to these sorts of discussions centered on girls and periods. The […]
Dear Coalition Members, What a wonderful FemRhets at UNH this month! Being together at conferences is critical to our professional lives and our Coalition. But we have other structures of support to like: Glenn AtA webinars, virtual mentoring partnerships, Peitho, our awards and grants, and our annual Cs events. Many of you have supported the […]
Dear Coalition, On behalf of the Conference Planning Committee, we’re thrilled to announce the site for the 2027 conference: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities! The conference theme will be “Resistance/Resilience: Sustaining Feminist Activism,” and will be hosted by Drs. Liane Malinowski and Jacklyn Fiscus-Cannady in the U of M Department of Writing Studies. Some members of […]
The CFSHRC Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda Webinar series hosts 3 events a year (typically between October and June) to provide members with mentoring/workshop events focused on a variety of feminist-related topics. Last year, for example, we discussed the presidential election and coalition building strategies, grant proposals, and community engagement work. These events and those that […]
We’re proud to announce the spring 2025 issue of Peitho! This is a special issue on Transnational Feminist Rhetorical Studies, and it features a foreword by Chandra Talpade Mohanty. The articles blend personal writing and scholarship in autoethnography, counterstory, and poetry, and the contributors inspire us to transnational solidarity in a world gripped by nationalism […]
DEMYSTIFYING ACADEMIC EDITORIAL WORK: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH PAST, CURRENT, AND FUTURE PEITHO EDITORS Monday, June 9, 12:00 p.m. EDT Register at https://tinyurl.com/PeithoEditors Peitho is transitioning to a new editorial team, and we are taking this opportunity to reflect on editorial work. Please join us for — and please spread the word about — a […]
Dear CFSHRC members and supporters, What a year it’s been! I hope the end of the academic term brings everyone some much needed rest and joy. Many heartfelt thanks to the 80+ volunteers who have served the this year on committees, advisory boards, and task forces! As a volunteer-run professional organization, the Coalition only works when members (like you!) step […]
