Peitho Book Club: April 15, 2026

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The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition’s Grad Student Engagement Committee will be hosting a book club to read and discuss articles from the latest issue of Peitho, Volume 28, Number 2.
Join us on Wednesday, April 15th, from 12pm-1pmET/11am-12pmCT/9am-10amPT for this virtual event. You can register at tinyurl.com/PeithoBookClub. All are welcome, but please especially spread the word to grad students!
Flyer announcing Peitho book club on April 15, 2026. Content of flyer is in the body of this post.
We hope to see you there!

CFSHRC Gathering at RSA 2026/Portland Survey

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Dear CFSHRC Members,

This year, the CFSHRC created an ad hoc RSA Event Planning Committee to look into a gathering at RSA 2026 in Portland. They would like to get a better sense of who from CFSHRC is planning to attend the conference, so as to organize a gathering of Coalition members.

To that end, they put together a very short survey to gauge attendance and to see whether members would be interested in a CFSHRC get-together during the conference. Your responses will help us determine whether and how to plan a gathering.

The survey is linked here.

URL: https://forms.gle/7nt4vwvXByyN4SAc6

The survey should only take a minute or two to complete, and your input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for helping us stay connected and build community within CFSHRC.
Please feel free to reach out to any committee members (see below) if you have any questions. We hope to see many of you at RSA!

The RSA Event Planning Committee

Karrieann Soto Vega
Rachael McIntosh
Angela Muir
Elizabethada Wright

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.