Feminisms and Rhetorics 2017: Call for Reviewers

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The site host committee at the University of Dayton invites scholars to review paper and panel proposals for the 2017 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.  Reviewers will be responsible for: evaluating the potential quality of conference papers, panels, roundtables, and other presentations; evaluating the relevance of the proposed work according to the conference themes; and should be committed to the timely review for acceptance to the conference.  

There are several opportunities for review.  The committee asks for reviewers to commit by November 15, 2016 and to be available for review between January 1 and February 15, 2017.  

Reviewers will be asked to return their comments on proposals within two weeks of receiving proposals.  

Reviewers must be past or current members of Feminisms and Rhetorics or Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, or attendees of previous Feminisms and Rhetorics Conferences. Interested persons should submit the following: name, contact information (email and/or phone), and areas of interest or expertise.  Please send details and inquiries to feminismsandrhetorics@gmail.com.   

The conference is scheduled for Oct 4-7, 2017 in Dayton OH. See you there!

Become the Next Web Coordinator for the CFSHRC

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The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Composition and Rhetoric seeks its next Web Coordinator to maintain, monitor, and update the organization’s website. The Web Coordinator typically collaborates with CFSHRC Executive and Advisory Board members as needed. Approximate time on task averages 5-10 hours per month, with some periods of the year being slower or busier (e.g., prior to CCCC or FemRhet). Proficiency with WordPress is required.

Position Details

The CFSHRC Web Coordinator performs the following activities:

  • Filtering and responding to user questions as well as general questions about the website;
  • Working with Peitho editors to upload each issue of the semi-annually published journal, overseeing the process of archiving past issues, and liaising with the Peitho editorial team as needed;
  • Coordinating the PayPal portion of the site (e.g., radio buttons, membership information) in collaboration with the Treasurer;
  • Working with the CFSHRC Archivist to maintain the group’s administrative archive;
  • Maintaining and (as needed) updating website style guidelines.

Timeframe and Remuneration

The web coordinator serves a two-year term, typically starting on May 1 and ending on April 30, although an earlier start date is both possible and preferable this term in advance of some of the new initiatives at 4Cs.

There are no geographical restrictions on this position, as the role can be performed remotely at the Web Coordinator’s convenience.

Compensation is $500 over a two-year term, plus complementary registration for one conference each year, either to attend CCCC or FemRhet.

Qualifications

We seek applications from graduate students, faculty, and/or independent scholars committed to helping the Coalition maintain and expand its strong presence in the field through digital means. All applications will be considered, but strong candidates will have the following qualifications:

  • Academic training and/or scholarly interest in one of several fields, including rhetoric, composition, feminist historiography, data design, or technical and professional writing;
  • Demonstrated experience managing and maintaining websites with shopping carts and PayPal connections;
  • Strong English language skills;
  • Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills both on and offline;
  • Commitment to serving the CFSHRC, which is the intellectual home of a diverse and growing group of scholars whose interests span histories of studies in gender and sexuality and feminist research in rhetoric and composition.

To Apply

Coalition members are encouraged to apply, but applicants need not be current members. Interested candidates should submit a brief letter of interest and current resume or CV. The latter should include URLs to sites designed or maintained, or access to other digital projects representing the candidate’s range of interests and abilities. Materials should be emailed to Lisa Mastrangelo (lmastrangelo919@gmail.com) and Tarez Graban (tarez.graban@gmail.com) by December 15, 2016.

Job Seekers, Be Like the Willow Tree

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Guest post by Erin Costello Wecker, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor of English
Director of Composition
The University of Montana

At the 4C16 CFSHRC event, Lydia McDermott, Letizia Guglielmo and I co-hosted a mentoring table on preparing for the job market. Now that the job hunt season is gearing up, we are going to use the coalition blog to sum up a few of the key points to help prepare and empower job seekers in rhet/comp. This blog post offers some insight that was shared with me while I was on the job market and things that I learned while going through the process two years ago. Be on the lookout for additional advice from Lydia and Letizia in upcoming blog posts on this topic.

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Willow tree with sun beams shining through the leaves

Be Flexible

Be flexible and open to different kinds of academic settings and positions, this includes TYC, WPA, small Liberal Arts Colleges, and larger state Universities. Sometimes when looking at all of the job openings it is daunting to envision which type of school or position you are looking for, especially if you are just finishing graduate school.

Begin by making a list of schools and then take time to visit their website. What is their mission statement? Who would be your colleagues and what type of research are they doing? Would your position be teaching focused, research focused, a combination of the two? What type of students attend this institution (i.e. focus on STEM fields, thriving Business School, loads of English majors)? Would you be working with graduate students?

Think About Fit

From this preliminary search you can get a sense of what type of work seems exciting. It is helpful to think of your own schooling background. What type of institutions did you attend? Generate a list of things you enjoyed and things you felt did not foster your academic development.

From that list a clearer picture of what contributions you would like to make to a school will become more evident, which will in turn help to refine your list of places to apply. Let your list guide you, but do not let it rule your search–remember where we started, be flexible and open to different kinds of academic settings. To that point, generate honest and focused documents for your teaching statement, research statement, and administrative statement and tailor your CV for two-three different types of positions.

Start getting ready soon. The job ads are already coming out. You can check them out here on the handy-dandy rhet map.

Be Like the Willow

A job search is demanding, but it is also exhilarating as there is promise in each new adventure. As the title suggests, willow trees are adaptive to climate and soil, grow fast, and have a distinctive shape with strong, well-developed roots. When I went on the job market I could not imagine leaving the city I loved, especially after calling it home for fifteen years; to my mind I had roots and I was not sure I wanted to uproot them. Yet as I begin year number two in my new job, in my new home, in a new time zone, with a new climate, and new people, I am reminded that possibility is what led me to this location.

A final bit of advice, to help wrap your mind around the changes that accompany a job search, take time to read your documents over and allow yourself to enjoy, for at least a moment or two, the accomplishments that have led you to a job search in the first place. When teaching writing we often stress the importance of process vs. product, yet when on the job market it is so easy to develop tunnel vision where landing a job is the only destination in sight. So, trust your talents and embrace the opposite actions of the willow tree: reaching skyward for light and remaining earthbound for rootedness, and when a gust of wind approaches just sway; I promise you will not break.

Let’s Celebrate and Share Our Work!

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Members of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition are busy publishing, researching, teaching, designing, leading, and mentoring. And in the process we’re shaping the future of our field.  In this blog post series, let’s celebrate Coalition Feminists Getting Sh*t Done! As the series continues, we will celebrate the accomplishments of different groups of members within the CFSHRC. To get things started, this post features recent publications, ongoing research and pedagogical projects by members of the Advisory Board, including several Executive Board members. Let’s take the time to read their work, connect with possible mentors and collaborators, and celebrate their accomplishments!

Check out this quick list of their research projects. For more detail, feel free to reach out to these Advisory Board members through their web profiles included below.

Publications and Research

Lynée Lewis Gaillet is the coeditor of the recently published book Landmark Essays on Archival Research  (Eds. Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Diana Eidson, and Donald Gammill).

Review the important essays included in this collection here. The Landmark Essays Series, edited by James J. Murphy and Coalition feminist member Krista Ratcliffe, with contributions by several other Coalition scholars, including Cheryl Glenn and Andrea Lunsford. And congrats to all of the authors included in the collection.

Charlotte Hogg published “Including Conservative Women’s Rhetorics in an ‘Ethics of Hope and Care” in Rhetoric Review 34.4.

Download the article here.

In May, after 10 years of hard, if off-again, on-again labor, Jenn Fishman, Joan Mullin, and Glenn Blalock, launched REx: The Research Exchange Index and published REx 1, which is a searchable database of peer-reviewed information about writing research conducted between 2000 and the present. As Jenn writes: “Distinct from scholarship about writing research, which tends to feature completed studies and be written by a limit set of researchers, REx was designed to capture (in brief form) information about everyone’s research activity, whether it’s ongoing, completed or stalled. There’s so much we can learn from each other, and this project represents an attempt to facilitate that. Anyone interested in getting involved or contributing to REx 2 should be in touch with Joan. She and her colleagues at UNC-Charlotte are leading the next charge.”

Explore this important resource here.

Mariana Grohowski co-authored the chapter “Subverting Virtual Hierarchies: A Cyberfeminist Critique of Course-Management Spaces” in the digital book Making Space, edited by James P. Purdy and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss.

Check out this chapter and the rest of this engaging e-book here.

Pamela VanHaitsma, with support from a 2016 Summer Research Fellowship from the Office of Research, and the 2015-2016 Robin L. Hixon Fellowship from the Department of English, both at Old Dominion University, is conducting archival research for a new project on the rhetorical practices of 19th-century women teachers in romantic friendships. Contact Dr. VanHaitsma to learn more about her ongoing research and read her recent publication “Gossip as Rhetorical Methodology for Queer and Feminist Historiography” in Rhetoric Review 35.2.

Read the article here.

Tarez Samra Graban published Women’s Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories with SIUP in July 2015.  Tarez is now serving as a non-residential research fellow through the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa, until 2018, and has begun a new project at the intersection of rhetoric, archives, and transnational feminism.  

Learn more about her research or reach out to Tarez through her online portfolio http://tsgfolio.com

Awards and Grants

Cristina Devereaux Ramirez‘s monograph Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942 (UAP, 2015) was awarded the 2016 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award.

Get your copy here!

Risa Applegarth’s book, Rhetoric in American Anthropology: Gender, Genre, and Science, received the CCCC 2016 Outstanding Book Award this year.

Read a book review in RSQ.

Jenn Fishman, Jane Greer, and  Dominic DelliCarpini were awarded a CCCC Research Initiative Grant for their work on the Undergraduate Research Impact. 

Contact Jenn for updates on this important collaborative research.

Teaching

Pamela VanHaitsma is designing a graduate seminar in Women’s & Feminist Rhetorics for this fall. Check out her course website https://feministrhetoricsblog.wordpress.com/.

In Spring 2017, Tarez Samra Graban will be conducting an undergraduate seminar called “Women in the Archives, Vandals in the Stacks,” where students will study and work at the intersections of feminist rhetoric, archival theory, and institutional history. In partnership with FSU’s Director of Special Collections, Graban will have students process and identify archival materials related to some of FSU’s former women faculty members.

The this list is just a small selection of what our advisory board has been doing. We hope to continue sharing and celebrating the work of coalition members more regularly on this blog. What are you working on? Let us know in the comments section or contact Trish Fancher (fancher.patricia at gmail dot com) to be included in the future blog posts.

Introducing the Coalition’s 1st Archivist & Historian

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Greeting Coalition Members! My name is Alexis Ramsey-Tobienne and I am the Coalition’s first Archivist and Historian. My task is two-fold: to help capture, preserve, and share the Coalition’s rich history through the expansion of our current archive (now freely available to all users and accessed by the “archive” link in the resources section of our homepage) and to think about if and how we should create a physical archival space.

Currently, our archive houses mainly the administrative papers of the Coalition including, but not limited to: various types of planning documents for all the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conferences; minutes, emails, and proposals from Annual Meetings; various correspondence among members from 2006 to present; Treasurer Reports; and Videos celebrating the Coalition.

While there are many detailed, informative documents already stored in our archive, I would like to add to our holdings.

Specifically, I would like to ask you, Coalition members, to share with me:

  • Photographs and Videos related to the Coalition such as photographs and videos taken during Femisms and Rhetorics Conferences, photographs and videos taken at mentoring tables during our C’s Workshops, and photographs and videos taken during panels featuring feminist scholars and scholarship.
  • Documents related to:
    • C’s Mentoring Workshops
    • Feminisms and Rhetorics Planning
    • Any other documents you feel belong in the archive and that help provide more information about the Coalition’s history.

Please send documents and photographs to me at: ramseyae@eckerd.edu. Please provide some context for the photographs and videos and please make sure photographs are .jpg and that individuals pictured within are identified.

If you are interested in joining me on an archive-building adventure, I would like to convene a task force to explore possible physical locations for our archive and to consider what we would need from that space. Please email me at ramseyae@eckerd.edu to share your interest and ideas.

I encourage you to explore our archive!

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Introducing the Journal of Veterans Studies

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Hello and thank you for your attention. Now that I have it, I’d like to make two brief introductions.

Introduction 1: My name is Mariana Grohowski. I am an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University Southeast. I was recently appointed to the Coalition’s Advisory Board and I have been a proud member of the Coalition since 2013. In 2014, I helped to assess the Coalition’s use of social and digital media.

Introduction 2: The second and more important introduction I seek to facilitate is to introduce the Coalition to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Veterans Studies (JVS).  I founded JVS in November 2015 after 3 years of receiving journal article rejections based on the focus of my research on women veterans. Indeed, I noticed a lack of referred publication venues for interdisciplinary research and writing on and about the issues and experiences of military veterans. JVS is the only refereed, open access, interdisciplinary, online journal focused on veterans studies.

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I published the inaugural issue, thanks to the help of generous reviewers and an amazing editorial board, in July 2016. I hope many members of the Coalition will find the articles to be of interest. The inaugural issue contains eight original research articles and three reviews: two of books and one on a work of new media). The entire issue is available online (open access) at veteransstudies.org/journal

Because I suspect that the Coalition may be unfamiliar with the term “veterans studies,” please allow me to briefly explain my use of the term. We might think of veterans studies, Coalition, comparable to our interest in gender studies. Whereas feminists identify the ways in which gender shapes intellectual and social norms, including its intersections with power structures (i.e., race, class, and sexuality), veterans studies scholars are interested in studying how society views and treats “the veteran” as well as how “the veteran” views him/herself.

In short, veterans studies is an multi-faceted, scholarly investigation of military veterans and their families. Topics oftentimes include, but are not limited to: combat exposure, reintegration challenges, and the complex systems that shape the veteran experience. Veterans studies, by its very nature, may analyze experiences closely tied to military studies, but the emphasis of veterans studies is the “veteran experience,” i.e., what happens after the service member departs the armed forces. Scholars of veterans studies pursue their work in such fields as Rhetoric and Composition, Literature, History, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Student Affairs (among others). Likewise, the work of veterans studies occurs in and outside of formal education–by current members of the military, leaders of nonprofits, independent artists, grassroots activists, and students taking courses in veterans studies–indeed, “veterans studies” designated programs have been established at four public universities in the U.S.

Questions that drive veterans studies scholars and are the sorts that the Journal of Veterans Studies seeks to promote may include:

  1.  Who is “the veteran in society?”
  2. How do power structures like race, class, gender, and sexuality affect the veteran from claiming his/her “veteran-ness”?
  3. Who “counts” as a veteran?

Three articles in the inaugural issue Coalitionists may find most interesting are summarized briefly:

(1) “A Theoretical and Applied Review of Embodied Restorying for Post-Deployment Family Reintegration” by Jeanne Flora, David M. Boje, Grace Ann Rosile, and Kenneth Hacker (New Mexico State University).

This article shares the team’s innovative theoretical approach to working with veterans and their families through storytelling. According to the authors’ approach, storytelling is utilized to reframe and recreate narratives held by veterans and their family members. Compellingly, the authors substantiate the importance of storytelling and the role family members play in the veteran’s process of reintegration post-deployment.

(2) Leland Spencer’s (Miami University) “Faculty Advising and Student Veterans: Adventures in Applying Research and Training By critically reflecting on his experiences academically advising undergraduate student veterans.”

In this article, Spencer engages personal narrative to share his journey of learning (by stumbling and tons of research) to effectively advise undergraduate student veterans. I think Coalition readers could view Spencer’s writing style as employing feminist strategies, as he is as quick to admit to what he doesn’t know as he is to providing answers. The author provides five suggestions that readers–who are teachers, administrators, and staff who work with student veterans in postsecondary educational settings–will find valuable.

(3) “The Other, Other Students: Understanding the Experiences of Graduate Student Veterans” by Glenn Allen Phillips (UT Arlington)

Phillips shares the experiences and perceptions of graduate students with military experience. Not only does he present long experts from his interviews with eleven graduate student veterans, but he also situates his findings within five key areas. As Phillips points out, his research is a first of its kind in its focus on the mechanisms of support (five of which he identifies from his interviews) advanced-degree seeking student veterans desperately need.

 

In closing, there are three ways all Coalitionists can work in #solidarity to promote and sustain JVS:

  1. Spread the word about the journal your friends. Even those you think might be tangentially interested. Let them know the journal is live. Encourage your friends to subscribe and contribute. Share this convenient URL http://tiny.cc/jvs and “Like us on Facebook” (https://www.facebook.com/journalveteransstudies/)
  2.  Consider submitting an article, announcement, book or media reviews, interviews, and program or organizational profiles to the journal for publication. JVS only succeed if people take time to send us their ideas. (Full submission guidelines are available at http://tiny.cc/jvssubmit). Coalitionists might be intrigued by the December 1, 2016 call for papers for a special issue in which former CCCC presenters are asked to contribute their (slightly) modified presentations (related to veterans studies).
  3. Make the effort to cite articles published in the journal. As we know, Coalition, the power of citations makes an impact (i.e., to an author’s legitimacy and a journal’s credibility). Please consider: Is there a way you can integrate a source published in JVS in your article, review, presentation, etc.?

Thank you, Coalition, for your support of this scholarly endeavor. Please feel free contact me, Mariana Grohowski at mgrohow@gmail.com.

By Mariana Grohowski, CFSHRC Advisory Board Members

 

With Our New Name, We’ve Refocused Our Mission

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When the Coalition was first formed in 1989, our organization was one of the few places that women in the field, especially those doing historical work, could gather to mentor and be mentored, to create and join in community.  When the group created the initial bylaws, these bylaws represented this initial formation—women gathering to do historical work.

In the 26 years since the Coalition’s founding, however, as they say, times have changed.  We now recognize gender as more fluid, historical work as more than just recovery of white men and women, and mentorship as taking increasing diverse and even technological directions.  When we gather, we want to include diverse voices, views, and types of work.

As a result, then-President Jenn Fishman gathered a Mission Task Force to examine the work of the Coalition and the ways in which it was viewed.  As a part of this work, Task Force members Wendy Sharer, Kate Navickas, Jess Enoch, Barbara L’Eplattenier, and Risa Applegarth worked to revise the Coalition’s by-laws.  The by-laws reflect any organization’s views of both its membership and its relationship to that membership.  We are pleased to present a new, up-to-date version of our by-laws, with more inclusive language and an updated view of who we are and what we do.  Please view them on our bylaws page.

by Lisa Mastrangelo, CFSHRC President

Follow Our Guest Tweeters!

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We thank all of you for following @CFSHRC on Twitter and Facebook. We’ve only been on social media for a couple of years, but we’ve already build a strong following and curated a rich set of conversations relevant to anyone interested in feminism and rhetoric. #thefeministsarecoming to social media and we’ve got a lot to say!

And now, we’re working to improve the way we use our social media platforms. We want to create a genuinely multi-vocal space that represents different coalitions of feminists in rhetoric and composition. Follow our social media experiment this summer as 5 different women take turns curating our twitter feed.

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Follow our curated twitter feed @cfshrc with Patricia Fancher, Marie Novotny, Ruth Osorio, Christine Martorana, Latoya Sawyer, and Karrieann Soto

July 18-24: Patricia Fancher is a lecturer in the Writing Program of the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research intersects rhetoric of science and feminist rhetoric, and she has a special interest in Alan Turing as well as the women who worked at Bletchley Park. She is the Director of Digital Media and Outreach for the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. In her free time, you’ll find Trish with her fat orange cat, who aspires to be internet famous.

July 25-Sep 7: Maria Novotny is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric & Writing at Michigan State University and a project partner with The ART of Infertility. Her research examines how infertile individuals must navigate across health and cultural systems and the challenges that this navigation poses as well as their dependence upon private and peer-led networks to exercise agency in these systematic spaces. In 2015, Marie received the CCCC Gloria Anzaldua Rhetorician Award for her research on infertility activism.

Aug 8-21: Ruth Osorio  is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Maryland, College Park. She teaches courses in composition, digital writing, disability studies, and professional writing. Her dissertation examines the rhetorical strategies of disability activism in activist, queer, digital, and professional spaces. When not teaching or writing, Ruth is spending time with her daughter, spouse, and chihuahua rescue mutt.

Aug 22-Sep 4: Christine Martorana is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Writing Program at the College of Staten Island – CUNY. Her research interests circulate around feminist agency, feminist activism, and composition pedagogy. In her teaching, she espouse a collaborative, interactive, and multimodal approach, a pedagogical perspective through which she invites students to adopt more expansive notions of what it means to “write” and consider the diverse and impactful ways they function as rhetoricians both within and beyond the academic community.

Sep 5-18:  LaToya Sawyer doctoral candidate in Syracuse University’s Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program. Her research interests are Black women’s discourse, literacy and rhetoric, Black feminism and computer-mediated-communication. LaToya is a Hollis, Queens native, writer and educator. Her dissertation explores Black women’s language and identity performance as agency in social media spaces. She has taught in community-based and university educational settings within the African American community, the U.S. and China.

Sep 19-Oct 2: Karrieann Soto Vega is a PhD Candidate at Syracuse University, where she studies Puerto Rican Nationalist rhetorics as enacted by the figure of Lolita Lebrón. Her research interests run the gamut of decolonial feminist rhetorics, sonic and visual rhetorics, multimodality, new media, and cultural rhetorics, among others. For the year 2016-2017 she will be a Teaching Assistant at Syracuse University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

Interested in contributing as a CFSHRC guest tweeter? Contact Trish Fancher at pfancher [at] writing.ucsb [dot] edu

Your Coalition Curated Guide to RSA16

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We asked if the feminists were coming to RSA, and boy did you respond. Here are over 30 RSA panels featuring coalition members and/or feminist related material. Let’s support each other’s feminist work by attending some of the panels. While there, be sure to add to the back channel with the hashtags #cfshrc and #thefeministsarecoming.


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Gender at Work: Engaging with Spatial, Material, and Embodied Rhetorics in Feminist Research
Friday, 11-12:15

Panel: “Teaching the ‘Cross-Cultural’ at the Convergence of History, Temporality, and Locality: Locating New Pedagogical Traditions in Changed Theoretical Spaces”
Friday, May 27, 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. / Hilton 313

Blue Bell, Corporate Shell?: Small Town Rhetoric in Big Corporate Liability
Friday 12:30-1:45 Hilton Rm 302

Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity and the Future of Feminist Rhetoric: A Roundtable
Friday, 27th, 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

I Apologize: Rhetorical Missteps as a Constraint to Contemporary Black Feminist Discourse
Friday, May 27th. 2:00 p.m., Hilton Downtown 402

Black Feminist Rhetoric: Anger, Apology, Agency

(Re)Articulating “Woman”: Archival Performances and Gender Activisms in Women’s Colleges
Friday, May 27, 2016 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Hilton Downtown, 311

Negotiations of Identity and Power: Researching Academic Women and Conducting a Feminist Rhetorical Practice
Friday, May 27 3:30-4:45 PM Hilton Downtown 311

Making and Mattering in a Makerspace: Toward a More-than-human Rhetoric
Friday, 3:30-4:45, Hilton Downtown 206

“Revolutions, Evolutions, and Transnational Nationalisms–The View from the Hemisphere”
Friday, May 27: 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM | Room 309

The “Wicked Stepmother”: Changing Maternal Identity and Transforming Personal Narrative
Friday, May 27th 3:30-4:45pm, Hilton Downtown Room 302

The One Girl (R)Evolution: Malala Yousafzai’s Multicultural Girl Power Rhetoric
Saturday, May 28th, 8:00 – 9:15 AM Rm 209

Materiality and Digital Spaces as Agents of Rhetorics of Change
Saturday, May 28: 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM Hilton Downtown Room: 212

Mapping the Circulation of _Sex in Education_
9:30-10:45 Saturday, May 28 Hilton Downtown Room 210

#YesAllWomen: Re-centering Bodily Experiences in Digital Space
Saturday, 9:30 am, Hilton 306

Panel: Changes to Identification: Queer Thought, Embodiment, and the Politics of Emotion. Paper: Verbing the Body: Implication for Embodied Rhetoric
May 28th, 11:00-12:15, Hilton Downtown 405

Rhetorical Interventions: How Women Negotiate Healthcare Practices and Spaces
Saturday (5/28) 11:00am-12:15pm

Many Hands Make Invisible Work: Volunteerism and the Female Academic
5/28 @ 12:30 PM, Hilton Room 304

The Lived & Rhetorical Responses of Catholic Women’s Groups Following Vatican II
Saturday 5-28-17, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm, 207 Hilton

Agency, Affect, and Performativity in Visual and Material Rhetorics of Environment and Technology
Saturday 12:30-1:45

#BlackRhetoricsMatter?: The Future of African American Rhetoric
Saturday, May 28th, 2:00 p.m., Hilton Downtown 211

Changing Rhetorical Pedagogies for Digital Archives
Sat., May 28, 2-3:15 PM, Hilton Downtown 201

Theory of the Local: Rhetoric and Change at the Intersection of Composition and Communication
Saturday, May 28, 2016, 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm at Grand Ballroom East, 2nd floor

Situated (R)Evolutions: Rhetorical Meaning-Making and Memory Sites in the United States
Saturday, May 28, 3:30 PM, Hilton rm 314

How Do We Create Change?: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Action
Saturday, 3:30, Hilton Downtown Rm 207

Rhetorical Practices in Legal and Academic Institutions: Transnational Perspectives
Sunday May 29 8AM Hilton Downtown 211

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics + Posthumanist Rhetorics→ Emerging Rhetoric Pedagogies
Sunday May 29 8:00am Hilton Downtown 212

Forty Weeks of Change: Embodied Rhetorics, Pregnancy, and Shifting Strategies of Disclosure
Sunday, 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM, Hilton Downtown, 209

Precarious Desire: Feminist Perspectives on Design and the Big Giant [W]hole Surrounding Rhetoric
Sunday, May 29: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM, room 208

Tethered Amid/Against Change: Sorority Historical Education as (Gendered) Epideictic Rhetoric
Sunday, May 29, 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

The Archive as Rhetoric
Sunday 5/29 3:30

Supersession D: Disability Rhetorics
Sunday, May 29: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Hilton Downtown, 210

 

Welcome to the Coalition of FEMINIST Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

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Greetings all!  As the spring semester comes to a close for many of us, the Coalition is entering a new era!

Our biggest announcement:

The Coalition is changing its name!  We are very excited to announce that officially starting May 15, 2016, we will be the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Composition and Rhetoric. 
In addition, if you are missing us and thinking that there is no FemRhet this year, don’t despair!  Coalition folks will be meeting up at RSA this year. Join us on May 28th from 4-7pm at the Pulse Bar in the lobby of the Marriott.

Last (but of course, not least) we welcome several other women who are joining this leg of the run—new Advisory Board members Pamela VanHaitsma, Suzanne Bordelon, Charlotte Hogg, Mariana Grohowski, Staci Perryman Clark, and Lisa Shaver.

In addition, we have several new members joining us in positions both new and established:

We are so fortunate to have so many people who continue to give their time and energy to the Coalition.  Please know that we will be reaching out for volunteers throughout the year—stay tuned for ways that you can contribute.

Jenn Fishman has handed me the torch to carry for the next two years of the Coalition’s leadership—her energy and commitment to the Coalition have been unwavering and she cannot be thanked enough for all of her hard work.  I look forward to my new place in a long line of distinguished women who have served as Coalition Presidents.

I hope that you will join me for this next leg of the journey!

Lisa Mastrangelo
CFSHRC President