CFSHRC Wednesday Night Event at Cs 2026: “Feminist Pedagogies ‘In These Times’– a Teach-In.” 3/4/26 from 6-8pm

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Dear Coalition Colleagues, 

Please mark your calendars for the annual CFSHRC Wednesday Night Event at Cs 2026 on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8pm in the Huntington Convention Center, Meeting Room 203. This year’s event is “Feminist Pedagogies ‘In These Times’– a Teach-In.”

During our CCCCs 2025 event, many attendees wanted to talk about how to do feminist teaching “in these times,” meaning how to build classrooms, assignments, and structures to encourage students to think about inclusion, justice, and writing in the face of so many obstacles. Feminist teaching comprises a wide-range of practices that include: collaboration, community-building, decentering power, engaging the knowledge of students and marginalized people, dialogue, and reflection. The goal of these diverse praxes, according to Dale M. Bauer, is that “The feminist agenda offers a goal toward our students’ conversions to emancipatory social action” (389).

Moreover, as bell hooks writes in Teaching to Transgress, “The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy” (12). At this moment of political and financial uncertainty, as we witness challenges to academic freedom and declines in federal funding, we will use our collaborative space as we gather in Cleveland to share strategies for our classrooms so that we may bring these conversations about emancipatory social action back to our home campuses.

 

The first hour (6-7pm) of the event will be announcements, awards, and three teach-ins. Our teach-in presenters (and their topics) are:

  • Jessica Ridgeway, Norfolk State University, “Exploring Black Women’s Digital Rhetoric: from Silenced to Uproariousness  (A Rhetoric for #JUSTus)”
  • Munira Mutmainna, St. John’s University, “Walking as Praxis: Embodied Knowledge in Decentering Power in the Composition Classroom”
  • Melody Bowdon and Xaria Arthur, University of Central Florida, “Rhetoric, Mindframes, and the Intersectional Feminist Classroom”

If time allows, we plan to have table discussions of the teach-ins following the presentations.

 

The second hour (7-8pm) will feature our annual mentoring tables. This year, we crowdsourced topics from you, our members. Here is the list of mentoring tables and the table leaders:

  1. Writing (and Publishing) a Book: Elizabeth Ellis Miller, Jess Enoch, and Krista Ratcliffe 
  2. Community-Facing Pedagogy: Risa Applegarth and David Gold 
  3. Loving the Work But Hating the Job: Timothy Oleksiak and Patty Wilde
  4. Feminist Leadership: Xaria Arthur and Melody Bowdon 
  5. The Job Market: Kate Burt and Sayed Ali Reza Ahmadi  
  6. I Just Wanna Meet Folks–A Table for Feminist Conversations: Kelli Gill And Samira Grayson 
  7. Thriving In (and Surviving) Graduate School: Aubrey Fochs and Melissa Nicolas 
  8. How To Build a Writing Group: Moushumi Biswas, Amy Lueck, and Jenna Vinson
  9. Preparing for Promotions–Tips for the Dossier and Reviewer List: Jen Almjeld and Lynee Gaillet 

 

Many thanks to our table leaders for offering their time and expertise to us! 

Everyone is welcome at our event: members, non-members, friends, children, family, and the like. Like last year, we will attempt to stream the first hour on Zoom for those who cannot attend in person. To register for the Zoom, please use this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/posQ0j5ZR-aC5SXrf-aeWQ

Please note, however, that internet bandwidth at conference centers tends to be unreliable, and I apologize in advance if the Zoom fails. 

Finally, below you’ll find sharable images for the event so, if you’d like, you can invite others to attend. 

I hope you can join us on Wednesday, March 4 from 6-8pm! 

 

Best wishes,

 

Becca Richards, President

Flyer for Wednesday Night Event at Cs

Agenda For Wednesday Night Event at Cs (content in body of email)

Peitho Issue 28.2, Winter 2026 is Live

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The Peitho Editorial Team is proud to announce the publication of Issue 28.2, Winter 2026. This issue features three full-length articles on topics including feminist healing practices, social media food diaries, and indigenous archival protocols, as well as a beautiful multi-genre piece on metis. The issue also includes a cluster conversation on feminist visual rhetoric, which spans a variety of diverse and compelling topics from 1970s women’s magazines to drag queens on TikTok.

 

Photo by Dr. Jennifer Nish. A photo of an orange and black Monarch butterfly. The butterfly is in flight against a light blue sky and field of yellow wildflowers. The butterfly is situated toward the upper left hand corner of the image. The background of the field is out of focus, while the butterfly heads toward a foreground of yellow flowers in focus.

Photo by Dr. Jennifer Nish. A photo of an orange and black Monarch butterfly. The butterfly is in flight against a light blue sky and field of yellow wildflowers. The butterfly is situated toward the upper left hand corner of the image. The background of the field is out of focus, while the butterfly heads toward a foreground of yellow flowers in focus.

Call for Applications for CFSHRC Advisory Board (2026-2029)

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Apply to serve on the advisory board for the CFSHRC! 

Who? You! Any CFSHRC member can apply to serve on the advisory board: grad students, K-12 teachers, early career faculty, community college faculty, advanced faculty, emerita faculty, and alt-ac members.

What? The CFSHRC advisory board is composed of 30 elected members. Seven (7) AB members serve on the executive board as the president, vice president, immediate past president, secretary, treasurer, grad student rep, and at-large rep. At least two AB members must be graduate students when elected. Applicants are elected by the current advisory board.

Where? The AB meets annually on the Wednesday of Cs, immediately before the CFSHRC’s evening event. It also meets at Feminisms and Rhetorics. These conference-based meetings are hybrid, meaning Board members can attend in-person or virtually. Moreover, the AB occasionally meets virtually to discuss motions and new business. 

Why? Apply because you’ve already served on a CFSHRC committee, attended Feminisms and Rhetorics, and/or interacted with Coalition activities, and now you want to serve in a formal capacity. Apply because you want to shape future projects sponsored by the Coalition. Apply because you want to collaborate with other feminist scholars in the history of rhetoric and composition. Apply because you want to sustain and grow feminist work in rhetoric and composition studies as a voting member of the Coalition. 

Ideally, applicants have previously served the Coalition in other capacities such as working the accessibility table at Feminisms and Rhetorics, peer reviewing for Peitho, serving on award and/or other Coalition committees, serving as ex officio positions such as archivist, conference site host, or other meaningful contributions. That said, all are welcome to apply, and all elected advisory board members will receive mentoring from a current AB member to help transition onto the advisory board. 

When? Applications are due February 1, 2026. Election results will be announced at the CFSHRC event at the Cs 2026, and elected members would serve 3-year terms (renewable one time) beginning April 15, 2026. 

How? Fill out the brief Google form: https://forms.gle/DS6qM4Rk1akZMdre6

 

If you have questions or concerns, contact the Coalition Vice President, Cristy Beemer at c.beemer@unh.edu

Mentoring Table Leaders Needed: Wednesday Night Event at Cs (3/4/26)

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Happy New Year, Coalition Colleagues!

Now that we’re in 2026, it’s time to think about gathering at CCCCs 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio. During the CFSHRC Wednesday Night CCCCs event, we will spend the first hour honoring award winner and hosting the Feminist Pedagogies “In These Times”—A Teach-In.

As usual, during our second hour, we will host mentoring table to provide feminist conversations and support around topics of interest and urgency. Based on Feminisms and Rhetorics and feedback for members, we have a list of requested tables that we need 2-3 people to host. We’re also open to other ideas for tables built around your expertise and energy.

If you’ll be at Cs 2026 in Cleveland, please considering volunteering for this meaningful service and submit your idea or sign up for a pre-assigned topic due February 6, 2026. Here’s a link to the Google form:

https://forms.gle/z2cGBbLG3FYuK8Ls9

If you have questions about this opportunity, please contact me, Becca Richards (rebecca_richards@uml.edu). I’ll follow up with everyone who offers their time and expertise. Thank you! I’ll be in touch mid-February to confirm your role for this event.

Thank you, in advance, for considering serving in this important event.

Best,
Becca Richards, President

Cheryl Glenn AtA: Taking Back (Some) Control of Your Days, January 15, 2026

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Please join us for our upcoming Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda Webinar: Taking Back (Some) Control of Your Days with Dr. Charlotte Hogg on Thursday, January 15, 2026 from 6:30-8pm Eastern Time.

Register for the event using this Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/pUmT1fWgTdK9Ihsp-L7jow

Here we are again facing the promise and burden of January planning. So many of us, grad students, faculty, or others, regardless of our academic or non-academic position, feel overwhelmed by the quantity of different obligations facing us in a semester (or equivalent for non-academics). Facilitated by Charlotte Hogg, this webinar invites you to find a comfy spot to settle in* to hear and share strategies and practices to feel more assured in navigating what too often feels like an onslaught. We’ll have discussion about the particular pressures for marginalized teacher/scholars, the research on associate profs stalling out, and feminist strategies for resisting productivity culture while still meeting our obligations and interests. Expect some casual interactivity through small-group breakout rooms. Our goal is to leave with concrete approaches for the next few months.

*Note: this webinar is for you, set after traditional work hours so you can more easily prioritize yourself, but the reality is there may be just as much waiting for us “after hours.” Please feel comfortable eating and having pets and kids around, making the space as comfy and “off the clock” as able.

Presenter Bio
Dr. Charlotte Hogg is a professor at Texas Christian University, specializing in rhetoric and composition. She has authored, co-authored, or co-edited five books, most recently White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging. Her work has also ap­peared in Inside Higher Education, The Washington Post, College English, Rhetoric Review, Peitho, and elsewhere. She teaches women’s rhetorics and literacies, creative nonfiction, and composition.

Presenter Photo

Alt Text: Dr. Charlotte Hogg holding a coffee mug and wearing a pink t-shirt that reads “Write on.”

Glenn Advancing the Agenda Webinar: Generative AI Refusal as a Feminist Methodology 

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Flyer for Glenn AtA Webinar on AI refusal with profile photos of presenters. All the information on this flyer is in the body of this post.

 

Please join us at 1 PM (EST) on November 17th for “Generative AI Refusal as Feminist Methodology,” a Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda webinar. You can register with the following Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IPzbisxnQgmrlXTBrCozSw

In this webinar, Jennifer Sano-Franchini (West Virginia University), Megan McIntyre (University of Arkansas), and Maggie Fernandes (University of Arkansas) present generative AI refusal as a feminist methodology that responds to the present harmful implications of generative AI, rather than its speculative risks or potential benefits. Refusal builds on feminist and postcolonial methodologies to center the voices and lived experiences of communities most impacted by the expansion of AI Empire (Hao, Tacheva and Ramasubramanian) and to imagine better futures and more ethical relations among humans and with the planet itself. In this session, the speakers will discuss the intersections across generative AI refusal and feminist methodologies. For instance, how do existing conversations about consent, bodily autonomy, and access resonate with ongoing deliberations about generative AI in higher education and beyond? How might video and image generation technologies like Sora operate as a manifestation and affirmation of rape culture? And what can refusal as a feminist methodology offer as we consider the anti-democratic imposition of data centers, such as xAI’s Colossus in Memphis, Tennessee and its implications for environmental, disability, racial, and reproductive justice?

Here is more about our webinar presenters:

Jennifer Sano-Franchini (she, her) is the Gaziano Family Legacy Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and an associate professor of English at West Virginia University where she teaches courses on professional writing theory, multimedia writing, and cultural rhetorics. She also serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Megan McIntyre (she/her) is the Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Composition and an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, where she teaches courses on writing pedagogy, research methods, and digital rhetorics. Her most recent work has appeared in Computers and Composition, Composition Forum, Peitho, and The Journal of Writing Assessment.

Maggie Fernandes (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Arkansas. Her scholarly expertise is in digital/cultural rhetorics, writing assessment, institutional oppression, and user experience design. Her work has been published in Computers and Composition, Composition Studies, Enculturation, Peitho, Kairos, and Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric. 

 

Listening Sessions on Supporting Feminist Scholarship, Nov 6 and Nov 7

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We Want to Listen to You.


The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition ad hoc Scholarly Support Committee invites you to join us for two upcoming listening sessions. The purpose of these synchronous online sessions is to gather qualitative data which will help us imagine how the Coalition can support feminist scholars in our current political climate. Our listening events will be held on Zoom and are scheduled for:

  • Thursday, November 6, 10:00 AM (EST)
  • Friday, November 7, 3:00 PM (EST)

During these listening sessions we want to focus our attention on the following questions:

  1. How can we build relationships to support one another’s work in a hostile political climate?
  2. What sort of support do feminist scholars need beyond their local university/college?
  3. Who would Coalition members like to hear from about our current political climate (legal experts, upper administrators, etc.)?
  4. What are other professional organizations doing to respond to this moment?

Your insights are vital for ensuring that we provide meaningful, actionable support for feminist scholars. If you are interested in attending either or both of these listening sessions, please register by Nov 2 via Zoom.

To register for the November 6 event at 10:00 am, please visit https://jmu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/2vkzD3l1SnqhJv417iP2_A

To register for the November 7 event at 3:00 pm, please visit https://jmu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/oFg4Dq7TRgCEe9HSFUvkRA

For inquiries about the event, please direct your questions to Jen Almjeld at almjeljm@jmu.edu. We hope you will join us in this collaborative effort to sustain and support feminist scholarship in rhetoric and composition.

In solidarity,

The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition ad hoc Scholarly Support Committee

Coalition Graduate Student Open House and Survey

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Dear Graduate Students,

Please join us for a Halloween Edition of the Coalition’s Graduate Student Engagement Committee Open House on Friday, October 31 at 1:00 pm ET/12:00 pm CT/11:00 am MT/10:00am PT.

The one-hour session is informal and designed to let you meet members of the Coalition and other graduate students interested in intersectional feminist work across Writing and Rhetoric Studies, as well as to learn about the Coalition’s resources, opportunities, and emphases. All are welcome (graduate student or not), but the session will focus on graduate student needs and interests.

There is nothing to prepare! Just rsvp for the zoom link: https://mtsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Xg6FVee8QfSaRFKazZ82zA

and we’ll look forward to seeing you. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to one of our co-chairs, Erin Green (emgreen5@uncg.edu) or Kate Pantelides (kate.pantelides@mtsu.edu). Costumes encouraged!

Whether or not you can attend the Open House, please fill out our Graduate Student Survey to help us design opportunities throughout the academic year related to your needs.

Spookily Yours,

The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition’s Graduate Student Engagement Committee

 

Open House flyer with Halloween decorations.

Call for Proposals: Feminist Pedagogies “In These Times”—A Teach-In

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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 talk about how to do feminist teaching “in these times,” meaning how to build classrooms, assignments, and structures to encourage students to think about inclusion, justice, and writing in the face of so many obstacles. Feminist teaching comprises a wide-range of practices that include: collaboration, community-building, decentering power, engaging the knowledge of students and marginalized people, dialogue, and reflection. The goal of these diverse praxes, according to Dale M. Bauer, is that “The feminist agenda offers a goal toward our students’ conversions to emancipatory social action” (389).

Moreover, as bell hooks writes in Teaching to Transgress, “The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy” (12). At this moment of political and financial uncertainty, as we witness challenges to academic freedom and declines in federal funding, we propose to use our collaborative space as we gather in Cleveland to share strategies for our classrooms so that we may bring these conversations about emancipatory social action back to our home campuses.

To that end, we invite you to submit proposals for a 7-10-minute hands-on demonstration of a feminist praxis that you use in their classrooms, to be presented during the first part of our annual CFSHRC Wednesday Night Event at Cs (March 4, 2026 6-8pm). A committee of three members will evaluate proposals and select a group of teach-in facilitators (3-5 presentations total) that represents the diversity of our membership.

Please complete the form below and include a short proposal (750 words or less) of your teach-in praxis that you’d like to share. Collaborative presentations welcome! Grad students welcome! All teaching-levels welcome!

Here’s the link to the form: https://forms.gle/UytM65A3eDYhqFHr8

Applications are due Friday, November 21, 2025. Notifications of decisions will go out in late 2025 so that presenters have time to make travel arrangements. Presenters must be current CFSHRC members. If you have questions about this opportunity, please contact CFSHRC President, Becca Richards (rebecca_richards@uml.edu).

Thanks everyone! I hope to see many of you in Cleveland at our Wednesday Night Event (March 4, 2026 6-8pm) for this teach in and annual mentoring tables.

Best,
Becca Richards

2025-2026 Award Announcements

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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 more information on our awards on the Coalition’s web page.

Presidents’ Dissertation Award:

In recognition of the close relationship between scholarly excellence and professional leadership, the CFSHRC Presidents Dissertation Award is given to the author(s) of a recently completed doctoral dissertation that makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of feminist histories, theories, and pedagogies of rhetoric and composition. This award is adjudicated every year and carries a $200.00 honorarium. 

Eligibility: Any doctoral dissertation that engages feminist histories, theories, and/or pedagogies of rhetoric and composition and is completed within appropriate time frames (see below) is eligible for this award.

  • For the 2025 Award: Any PhD dissertation completed (defended and filed/deposited with the institution) between 6/1/2024 and 5/31/2025 is eligible.

Review Criteria: The doctoral dissertations that receive this award will not only rigorously engage extant feminist research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition, reflective of the many cultural and intellectual traditions that comprise our field; they will also enhance our understanding of feminist academic work in rhetoric and composition through the methods and methodologies they employ, the critical praxes they model, and the conclusions they draw along with the invitations they offer for subsequent inquiry and exchange.

Submission Procedures: The deadline for nominations for the next award cycle (the 2025 Award), including self-nomination, is October 15, 2025. Nominees should submit an electronic copy of the completed dissertation in its final form, as it was submitted to the author’s (or authors’) home institution to Jess Enoch, Immediate Past President, at jenoch1@umd.edu. Please also provide documentation of completion, including date of submission/deposit to the institution.

The 2025 award recipient(s) will be invited to receive their awards at the 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication.

The Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award

Description: The Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award is presented biennially in even years for work in the field of composition and rhetoric to recognize outstanding scholarship and research in the areas of feminist pedagogy, practice, history, and theory. The award carries a $200.00 honorarium and is presented at the Wednesday evening meeting of the Coalition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Eligibility: An eligible work must have been published in the two years previous to the year of the award. Work eligible for the 2026 award will have been published in calendar year 2024 or 2025.) Single or multiple authored books, as well as edited volumes, are eligible. We welcome nominations from authors, editors, publishers, or readers. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a member of Coalition at the time of nomination.

Review Criteria

  • Is the work relevant to and may it be situated within the broadly defined fields of feminist research in Composition and Rhetoric?
  • Does the work demonstrate a fair and balanced research agenda in the form of feminist inquiry: archival, historical, classroom-based, community based, empirical, or theoretical work?
  • Is the need for this research within the field clear and compelling?
  • Is this research problem couched within existing scholarship of the field?
  • Does the scholarship provide a framework by which the field may be advanced by other researchers?
  • Does the work make a substantial contribution to the field?

Nominations and Contact: The nomination deadline for the 2026 award is October 15, 2025. Nominations must include five (5) copies of the book and a brief (500 words) nominating statement. Electronic submissions are accepted. Alternatively, please send all materials to:

Jess Enoch,

Immediate Past President, CFSHRC
Department of English

University of Maryland

2119 Tawes Hall
College Park, MD 20742

Contact Jess Enoch (jenoch1@umd.edu) to submit nomination materials for the award or for additional information.

The Nancy A Myers Feminist Research Grant

Description: The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition offers a biennial research grant of up to $700 for researchers to pursue or continue feminist projects that require funding to conduct such activities. These include but should not be limited to archival research, translation, interview transcription, and digital archivization and/or digital project development. The award is announced at the annual Coalition event at the Conference of College Composition and Communication in even years.

Eligibility

  1. Applicants must show evidence of a solid project/proposed project that relates to the mission of the Coalition (see below) and necessitates this additional research support activity.
  2. Preference will be given to scholars with no other documented source of funding
  3. Applicants may be at any stage of a research project that necessitates the supporting activity the grant would propose.
  4. Applicants must be members of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

How to Apply: The submission date for applications is January 9, 2026. Applicants should submit a completed application form and two confidential letters of recommendation to Jess Enoch, Immediate Past President (jenoch1@umd.edu). Questions should be directed to this address as well.

[Download research grant application]