On Wednesday, Oct. 28, join CWS grads Andy Bowman, Bruce Kovanen, Megan Mericle, Logan Middleton, and Lesley Owens for a roundtable brownbag on Scholar-Activism in Writing Studies.
In this event, slated from 1.00p-1.45p, panelists will briefly speak to how they see themselves participating in traditions of scholar-activism—throughout their research and/or their organizing work. A 15-minute Q...
- Please join us in congratulating Dr. Lisa Chason, CWS graduate student, on the successful defense of her dissertation "Second Language Academic Writing: What's the Target?" on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 28th. Excellent work, Lisa!
- Dr. David Cisneros has been has been awarded the 2020 Scholar of the Year Award by the Latino/a Communication Studies Division / La Raza Caucus of the National Communication Association. Please feel free to drop Dr. Cisneros a line and congratulate him on this accomplishment!
- Please consider joining us for our next CWS CWS Social Justice Praxis Working Group Meeting, slated for next Tues., 9/22, from 2.00p-3.00p CST. We'll be discussing the intersections between social justice and writing program administration by focusing on readings from Staci Perryman-Clark, Collin Lamont Craig, Sara Ahmed, Iris Ruiz, and Genevieve García de Müeller. The Social Justice Praxis...
- In this Writing Studies Graduate Concentration brownbag—on Thursday, Sept. 10th from 12.00p-12.50p—CWS Director Paul Prior will walk through the requirements for the writing studies concentration and answer any questions folks might have about it. While this brownbag is more helpful for newer CWS graduate students, we encourage all grads thinking about the concentration to attend regardless of...
- Welcome (digitally) back! Though it probably goes without saying, we envision that life this semester will be challenging across the board between COVID resurgences and ongoing rebellions for Black lives. We’re going to do our best to offer some modified programming this semester—all 100% online—that will allow folks in the CWS community to discuss, learn, and grow with each other. We’re still...