MLA Commons | RCWS Literacy Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/ Activity feed for the group, RCWS Literacy Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:14:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3616fe610560e3e950437178a720a5fe Jessica Yood deposited Humanities Core Curriculum, Humanities Core Values in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870296/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 Addressing the decline of a longtime commitment to humanistic study as the core of a general education, panelists consider the history of core curricula, the place of the humanities within it, and current challenges. With an eye toward the practical and sustainable, they offer possible paths for humanistic study—and general education—in challenging times.

]]> 0 1024b71cd1e60c342e156df7d9a4974f Elizabeth Hutton started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies CFP for MLA 2024: Literacies of self-care in the discussion RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-cfp-for-mla-2024-literacies-of-self-care/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:46:50 -0500 The RCWS Literacy Studies forum committee invites 250-word proposals addressing the MLA 2024 conference theme of celebration: joy and sorrow, with a focus on self-care literacies. What are the varied ways that instructors, artists, students, scholars, writers and readers enact and enable literacies of self-care? How do such literacies commemorate,…[Read more]

]]> 0 72cfde5fd7d548a1334c1bac1015c0c9 Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768476/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:49:37 -0500 What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

]]> 0 c658c41220d1a8b55459ec39ffffdfc5 Annette Vee started the topic Call for Papers: Women and Language (sharing by request from the journal) in the discussion RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-women-and-language-sharing-by-request-from-the-journal/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:48:38 -0400 Call for Papers | Women & Language

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All…[Read more]

]]> 0 868bdcac09ebd3306d8e14bd1bf94994 Peggy D. Otto started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Call for Proposals MLA Convention 2020 - Please share in the discussion RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-call-for-proposals-mla-convention-2020-please-share-4/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:29:49 -0400 Literacy Transactions: People, Practices, and Texts   The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals on how literacies are exchanged between people and contexts. How do people, their literacy practices, and texts change as a result of this transaction? Submit 250-350 word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: 28 March 2019 Peggy D. Otto,…[Read more]

]]> 0 56c941be411f82e143eaadad6ce49925 Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic MLA 2019 RCWS Literacy Studies Session January 5 at 10:15am in the discussion RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/mla-2019-rcws-literacy-studies-session-january-5-at-1015am/ Sun, 30 Dec 2018 16:42:49 -0500 Please join us for the RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored panel at MLA 2019, Saturday, January 5, 10:15-11:30 am, Michigan 1AB (Hyatt Regency). Our featured presenations are:

  • Textbooks Matter: Privileged Portraits of Schooling in Indian Textbooks, Usree Bhattacharya (U of Georgia) [#7605]
  • The Case of Dan, Longitudinally: Transaction as…

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]]> 0 9827789a37dbce51775c55b68d85eecb Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2019 - Please share! in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/literacy-studies-forum-cfps-for-mla-2019-please-share/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:00:49 -0500 We are pleased to share the CFP for our RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored sessions. Please share with colleagues who may be interested in submitting a proposal for either session.

RCWS Literacy Studies sponsored session:
The MLA RCWS Literacy Studies Forum invites proposals for MLA 2019 presentations on literacies and literacy practices,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc611e8f59d7d374056336fcdbe97cc4 Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Don't Miss the RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2018! in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/dont-miss-the-rcws-literacy-studies-sessions-at-mla-2018/ Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:21:35 -0500 RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions:

402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders
FRIDAY, 5 JANUARY 5:15 PM-6:30 PM, CONCOURSE D (HILTON)
Sponsoring Entity: RCWS Literacy Studies

Presentations
1. Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies, Jennifer Stone (U of Alaska, Anchorage) [#4701]
2.…[Read more]

]]> 0 71fd0aee7d65001db40a648e18e44714 Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic Welcome to Mya Poe! in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/welcome-to-mya-poe/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:16:10 -0500 The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum is very pleased to welcome Mya Poe as our newly elected forum executive committee member!

]]> 0 71c1b36e48ce7066d467fa5f13860e7e Laura Lisabeth deposited When William Strunk Was A Philologist He Thought of Grammar as a Folder in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557049/ Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:19:29 -0500 In this paper, I show how, as a philologist, William Strunk’s approach to language was a rich historical and rhetorical experience far from the prescriptivism E.B. White ascribes to him in the first edition of The Elements of Style (1959). An interesting historical parallel exists between Strunk’s tenure as a PhD student in philology at Cornell…[Read more]

]]> 0 9af6fdc95dac6939f854704fe9c739fe Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee Membership and Terms in the discussion RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-executive-committee-membership-and-terms/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:48:37 -0500 Executive Committee Officers

Alanna Frost MLA 2018 Secretary/MLA 2019 Chair (term Jan 2015- Jan 2020)
Peggy Otto MLA 2019  Secretary/MLA 2020 Chair (term Jan 2016-Jan 2021)
Annette Vee MLA 2020 Secretary/MLA 2021 Chair (term Jan 2017-Jan 2022)
Mya Poe 2021 MLA Secretary / MLA 2022 Chair (term Jan 2018-Jan 2023)
Brice Nordquist, MLA 2022…[Read more]

]]> 0 ccce0901c54df01a55019c1521df1b20 Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Business Meeting and Call for Nominations in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-business-meeting-and-call-for-nominations/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 04:42:12 -0500 Hello everyone,

We look forward to seeing many of you in Philadelphia this week. The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Annual Business Meeting will be held at 6:30pm Saturday, January 7, following session 651. Sponsoring, Stewarding, and Brokering Literacies (5:15-6:30pm, room 404 Philadelphia Marriott). We do not yet have a location for the meeting,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e2de7ec9c63ede7f19b01e1d4b7b9b1 Suzanne Blum Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-sessions-at-mla-2017/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 04:14:11 -0500 I hope you can join us at the two sessions sponsored by the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum at MLA 17:

491. Situated Literacy Practices
Saturday, January 7
10:15–11:30 a.m
Room 303, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding:
Peggy D. Otto, Western Kentucky University
Panelists:
Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky
“Taco Literacies: Translingual Foodways W…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b68020f910f7ac72c69ae4ff69088ed Carol Zuses started the topic First Forum Delegate Election--Call for Suggestions in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/first-forum-delegate-election-call-for-suggestions/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:09:40 -0400 The first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for RCWS Literacy Studies will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, i…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fbf9395b1b909241299177997f7009d Brooke Carlson deposited TWITAGOGY: WRITING, INFORMATION LITERACY, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION, and 21st CENTURY PEDAGOGY in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552567/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:55:47 -0400 Technology is transforming twenty-first century education. Central to the study of English Literature is critical thinking and writing, and with the advent of digital texts (along with the precursor – digitized writing) the space of the discipline continues to expand. One way to get at what is being done in the study of literature is to explore…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b00b71aab10348dd2ee76ec98423968 Brenda Glascott started the topic Please Consider Voting For Me for Literacy Studies Forum EC in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/please-consider-voting-for-me-for-literacy-studies-forum-ec/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 05:29:54 -0400 I have spent the last seven years co-building and co-editing a journal–Literacy in Composition Studies–so that scholars interested in Literacy Studies would have a platform for sharing their work. I am motivated by a desire to broaden the conversation about Literacy Studies and to sponsor interchanges with related fields. I would be thrilled to…[Read more]

]]> 0 79e227f3219dbd2fa65f625420d87e83 Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/548673/ Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:49:31 -0400 In the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8935a0ddd3874d2d01308a5f358178b Suzanne Malley started the topic MLA 2017 Literacy Studies Forum CFP in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/mla-2017-literacy-studies-forum-cfp/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:00:31 -0500 The frame of literacy studies, a subject of complex research across many disciplines, has long offered Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) both a focus of research and a methodological foundation. As such, RCWS scholars have contributed, and continue to contribute, significantly to broadening the field of inquiry related to…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ab478be5b54b78cf2d80a58b37b34fc Laura Lisabeth deposited The Fetish of Style: The Elements of Style and The Marketing of English Language Usage in the group RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538601/ Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:11:19 -0500 I argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a guide to a genteel language performance rooted in the racialized,…[Read more]

]]> 0 f37292d06a17b76a668c6a69ea61cc01 Laura Lisabeth edited the file: The Fetish of Style in RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538435/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:10:23 -0500 0 335083a8f2add4e6cdcf752e02833dd5 Laura Lisabeth uploaded the file: The Fetish of Style to RCWS Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538434/ Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:09:42 -0500 This was a talk given at the Literacy Studies Forum session at MLA 2016. I argue that The Elements of Style by Strunk and White comes out of a history connecting it to the nineteenth century “conversation handbook” (Connors) and other cultural guides to middlebrow identity formation, including The Book-Of-The-Month Club. The Elements of Style is a…[Read more]

]]> 2 761da673ccefec7cead4d4aaf2898a22 Suzanne Malley started the topic Ideas for Literacy Studies Forum Sessions for MLA 2017 in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/ideas-for-literacy-studies-forum-sessions-for-mla-2017/ Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:25:14 -0500 The Literacy Studies Forum Executive Committee members will be putting together a call for papers for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia over the course of the next couple of weeks. Please use this discussion thread to suggest any ideas you have framing the CFP (keeping in mind that we only have 35 words).

]]> 0 f815d444be2d096978838080c22a2dcc Suzanne Malley started the topic Options for Uploading Materials to RCWS Literacy Studies Forum in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/options-for-uploading-materials-to-rcws-literacy-studies-forum/ Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:18:07 -0500 Thank you to all of our MLA 2016 panelists for two excellent RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions. I hope that we can build a repository of materials from this year’s (and future) panels so that we can continue and extend conversations beyond the conference itself.

There are two ways to upload materials to the forum and two places for forum members to…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce31e76c1c0625c15024844efd705386 Suzanne Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Forum MLA Election Results in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-forum-mla-election-results/ Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:46:12 -0500 Congratulations to Peggy Otto on her election to the RCWS Literacy Studies Executive Committee! We welcome your participation in planning for the next several MLA Literacy Studies sponsored sessions and in building an active literacy studies online exchange in the MLA forum over the next several years.

The RCWS Literacy Studies Forum Executive…[Read more]

]]> 0 efbaac06ed6b6d2e02ad08d61db6a845 Suzanne Malley started the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Sessions at MLA 2016 in the discussion Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-sessions-at-mla-2016/ Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:10:25 -0400 Hi everyone,

We are very pleased to announce the two panels that the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum is sponsoring at MLA 2016. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there:
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m.
Transnational and Historical Perspectives: Literacy Studies’ Inaugural Forum Session
Presiding: Suzanne Blum Malley, Col…[Read more]

]]> 0 72cac3c04a5b03cec3249e3c1dfa2fe3 Alan Lopez deposited "Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”' in the group Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/315767/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:56:36 -0400 In this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on…[Read more]

]]> 0 495f6febc41ad09b736e1f3ac115f76b Suzanne Malley started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Literacies in Writing Studies in the discussion Literacy Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-literacies-in-writing-studies/ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:05:36 -0500 We invite paper proposals for the first RCWS Literacy Studies Forum sponsored panel at MLA 2016.

We welcome discussions of practices and processes of literacies situated in a wide range of political, social, economic, linguistic, educational, and cultural contexts. Please submit a 300-word abstract by March 15 to Suzanne Blum Malley (…[Read more]

]]> 0 9509d74775b1347e39452c321dc2c000 Cheryl E. Ball replied to the topic Literacy Studies Forum planning for 2016 in the discussion Literacy Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-forum-planning-for-2016/#post-6602 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:33:38 -0500 Suzanne, do you want us to brainstorm for the CFP here? It’s unclear. Or are we introducing ourselves here?

]]> 0 11c95003720e05240d17a524b38dc830 Suzanne Malley uploaded the file: Proposal for RCWS Literacy Studies Forum to Literacy Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/89850/ Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:10:48 -0500 The proposal submitted to the MLA Program Committee for the creation of a RCWS Literacy Studies Forum.

]]> 0 c681b718a5c84b1395e19cc11cffee26 Anne W. Anderson replied to the topic RCWS Literacy Studies Forum planning for 2016 in the discussion Literacy Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-forum-planning-for-2016/#post-6564 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:39:26 -0500 I see many possibilities for this forum and am looking forward to its development. In response to your excellent suggestion, Peggy, my research is in the area of children’s literature (broadly construed), rhetoric of literacies beyond reading and writing (multimodal, multimedia, other-than-word-based semiotic systems, and non-semiotic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 16822d7c375fff2d62427e5ef53acf64 Suzanne Malley started the topic Literacy Studies Forum planning for 2016 in the discussion Literacy Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literacy-studies/forum/topic/rcws-literacy-studies-forum-planning-for-2016/ Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:51:04 -0500 Hello everyone,

I’m please to let you all know that the RCWS Literacy Studies Forum was approved in Nov. 2014 by the MLA Program Committee. We are in the process of putting together a CFP for Literacy Studies papers at MLA 2016.

The executive committee members are listed below and we will be holding an election this year for the 5th exec…[Read more]

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