Please join our second webinar in the Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda series titled “AI in the Classroom: Ethics, Academic Integrity, and Equity.”

In this webinar, Anna Mills (Cañada College) and Kathryn (Katie) Conrad (University of Kansas) will each share approaches to academic integrity, ethics, and student rights and invite the audience to weigh in through polling on challenging questions around AI and pedagogy. Discussion will follow, during which they will ask each other questions and encourage audience participation.

We will convene on Wednesday, March 27 from 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time/ 12:00pm-1:30pm Pacific Time. Please register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOutpzMoEtQgg9WB_OiJhLbXWahUHX8i

Anna Mills (she/her) has taught community college English for 18 years and currently teaches at Cañada College. She serves on the MLA/CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI and curates an AI resource list for the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse. Anna has published an OER textbook, How Arguments Work, that has been used at over 65 colleges, as well as essays on AI in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed.

Kathryn (Katie) Conrad (she/her) is Professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is the author of A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education (Critical AI 2.1), has published several articles and book chapters on technology and culture, and runs an occasional Substack blog, “Pandora’s Bot,” on technology and culture, with a current focus on generative AI. She is co-director (with Sean Kamperman) of the AI & Digital Literacy project, in partnership with the National Humanities Center and the Hall Family Foundation; is on the founding advisory board for Harvard’s AI Pedagogy Project; and has spoken on critical AI literacy at the University of Kansas, Rutgers University, and Kansas State University.

The Coalition thanks Kate Tirabassi (Director, Center for Research & Writing and Professor of Communication/English, Keene State College) and Déirdre Carney (Teacher/Mentor, Fusion Academy) and the Advancing the Agenda committee for organizing this event!

CFP: Topic Proposals for Summer 2025 Peitho Special Issue

The Peitho Editorial Team invites those interested in serving as guest editors to send topic proposals for the Summer 2025 special issue of Peitho. We invite topic proposals on a wide range of topics related to feminist theories and gendered practices, including but not limited to:

• archival scholarship
• digital interventions
• emerging pedagogies
• feminist methodologies
• global rhetorics
• historical research
• Indigenous studies
• institutional critiques
• issues of embodiment
• LGBTQ+ studies
• minoritized rhetorics
• rhetorical theory

Special issues can include traditional scholarly articles as well as other kinds of projects, such as video content (with captions), Recoveries and Reconsiderations pieces, manifestos, and book reviews. Guest editors are expected to adhere to the practices expressed in the Anti-Racist Scholarly Reviewing Practices: A Heuristic for Editors, Reviewers, and Authors statement.

Examples of past special issues of Peitho: 

• Fall/Winter 2014, “The Critical Place of the Networked Archive”
• Fall/Winter 2015, “Looking Forward: The Next 25 Years of Feminist Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition” (25th anniversary of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition)
• Summer 2019, “Rhetorical Pasts, Rhetorical Futures: Reflecting on the Legacy of Our Bodies, Ourselvesand the Future of Feminist Health Literacy”
• Summer 2020, “Transgender Rhetorics”
• Summer 2021, “On Race, Feminism, and Rhetoric”
• Summer 2023, “Coalition as Commonplace: Centering Feminist Scholarship, Pedagogies, and Leadership”

Topic proposals for special issues should include the following:

An editorial board-facing description (1000-1500 words) of the idea for the special issue, along with an explanation of why the guest editors (you) are interested in the topic. What needs will this special issue meet — in research, teaching, academia, and/or community work? Have other journals had special issues on this topic? Have scholarly presses published edited collections on this topic? If so, how would this special issue build on the previous work? This description should include a brief review of the previous scholarship on the topic and a bibliography.

A public-facing call for article proposals (500-750 words): this can use some of the same language as the description for the editorial board, but it should also include a timeline and criteria for review of proposals and brief explanation of the review process. Invited submissions are acceptable if there is transparency about these decisions, so invited submissions need to be addressed in the public-facing call for proposals if guest editors plan to invite submissions, such as for a cluster conversation. Book reviews and Recoveries and Reconsiderations pieces should be addressed in the public-facing CFP as well, if those are planned as part of the special issue.

CVs from the prospective guest editors: If this is a collaboration, please provide a brief note about previous collaborative projects and/or how and why you decided to form a partnership together for this proposal.

The editorial board and editorial team will review topic proposals using the following criteria from our reviewer guidelines:

• Timeliness of or need for research on the topic (new or little-known material? New understanding of known material?)
• Engagement with current scholarship in rhetoric and feminist studies
• Commitment to methods and practices of feminist scholarship

Topic Proposals for Summer 2025 Special Issue Due: April 12, 2024

Decision from Editorial Board: May 17, 2024

• You’ll find articles by Kristy Crawley, Lisa Mastrangelo, and Zoe McDonald analyzing gender in the history of rhetoric in both the distant and recent past.

• This issue offers two Cluster Conversations, the first of which is “Addressing The Barriers Between Us and that Future: (Feminist) Activist Coalition Building in Writing Studies,” edited by Lisa E. Wright, Natasha Tinsley, Anna Sicari, and Hillary Coenen. This Cluster Conversation features important narratives about barriers, especially in academia. In the wake of what has happened at Harvard University to Dr. Claudine Gay, we are proud to publish these essays, and we value the courage of these authors.

• The second Cluster Conversation is “Reclaiming the Work of Wendy Bishop as Rhetorical Feminist Mentoring,” edited by Mary Ann Cain and Melissa A. Goldthwaite. It marks the twentieth anniversary of Wendy Bishop’s death. In the process of sharing their memories of Bishop, these authors offer insights about the long-term impact of good mentoring, and they pay it forward.

Dear Coalition Members, 

As bell hooks reminds us, feminist solidarity is not homogeneity: “rather than pretend union, we would acknowledge that we are divided and must develop strategies to overcome fears, prejudices, resentments, competitiveness, etc.” (hooks, “Sisterhood,” 137).  

With this in mind, we, the members of the Coalition’s Advisory Board, write to you—not with a singular statement to flatten our many voices—but to acknowledge the violence, pain, grief, precarity, and historical complexity of this moment: the overwhelming death and destruction in Gaza, and the suffering of our community members in the U.S. and around the world. We understand that many of our members have different relationships with Israel and Palestine, and we cannot capture all the emotions, loss, and trauma in one statement.

We mourn the horrific massacre, abduction, and violence against Israelis and residents of Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, which resulted in the most significant loss of Jewish life on a single day since the Holocaust. We witness and protest the rising cases of antisemitism within the United States and around the world since the attack, and we are alarmed for the safety of the Jewish community and especially for our Jewish colleagues and students. 

We are horrified by the violence and harassment against Palestinians, Palestinian-Americans, and Arabs in the US and abroad. We deplore the rising tide of Islamophobia occurring globally, as attacks against Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans have increased in number and violence, putting many of our co-workers and friends at risk. Too, we stand against the ongoing military violence perpetrated by Israel’s political leaders that has killed and injured tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced over one million, and we urge elected officials to use their authority as US politicians to call for a permanent ceasefire–and we encourage feminist rhetoricians to do the same.

By referring to the violence in both Israel and Gaza, we do not mean to equate the destruction, but rather, to hold space for the multi-layered and complex suffering our members and their communities are experiencing; we believe we can hold multiple truths in our hearts as we call for justice and witnessing. As feminist rhetoricians, we are committed to the ethics of care that necessitate our denunciation of violence, dehumanization, antisemitism, and Islamophobia—and we hope that campus administrators will leverage their resources and care to support faculty, students, and staff who are impacted by the intergenerational trauma of this moment.

Many will say that to address this moment, a statement is not enough, and we agree. Statements, on their own, cannot enact change, but they can help create conditions that lead to change. To this end, we reaffirm our commitment to rhetorical listening across differences and to ongoing dialogue unmarred by violence, and we are exploring possibilities for venues and events through which to enact this commitment.

With peace,

The Coalition Advisory Board

We are pleased to announce the Summer 2023 issue of Peitho! It is a special issue with the title “Coalition as Commonplace: Centering Feminist Scholarship, Pedagogies, and Leadership.” The guest editors are Aurora Matzke, Louis M. Maraj, Angela Clark-Oates, Anyssa Gonzalez, and Sherry Rankins-Robertson.

It has thirteen articles in sections titled:

Coalition in Theory/Praxis in the Field

Accountability with/in Community Relations

The Promises and Perils of Coalition-Building in Academia

Temporal Politics of Coalition