As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2020-2021 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. This past year has continued to highlight challenges for justice, safety, teaching, researching, and living in the world, yet it has also provided opportunities for digital rhetoric to explore solutions and larger conversations around these challenges. Our blog carnivals explored how teachers and scholars have been navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s podcast series offered insights, challenges, and celebrations around Black sound. We also saw the beginnings of a new crowd-sourced syllabus…
Author: Jathan Day
D'Arcee Neal, Nupoor Ranade, Jathan Day, Jianfen Chen, Sarah Hughes, Danielle Koepke, Kimberly Williams
Jathan Day is the Graduate Administrative and Editorial Associate for the DRC. He is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan. Jathan's research interests include course management systems, digital literacies, online pedagogy, disability studies, and reading practices.
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently doing research in some area of digital rhetoric who seek professional development experience in online publishing with a major university press and a website that serves the community of computers and writing. Fellows will be selected by the editors and board of the DRC and will receive an award of $500 as well as recognition on the DRC website. Applications will be accepted until Friday, July 30, and the term of Fellowship is for one year with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. In collaboration with DRC colleagues, Fellows…
We hope that you are all doing well and staying safe during these uncertain times, and we hope that those of you who were able to attend or present at CCCC virtually this year had a successful conference. In previous years, the DRC has set up an informational table for conference attendees to find out more about us and to peruse our most recent publications. Since we could not be at CCCC in person this year, we offer some of those resources for you here. Did You Attend a Session on Digital Rhetoric? You Can Still Be a Reviewer! If…
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication (April 7-10), which takes place virtually this year. We are particularly interested in conference reviews pertaining to digital rhetoric, though you are welcome to propose your own session to review. Reviews are published on the DRC website to help facilitate conversations about conference sessions among attendees and others who may have not been present at the conference. If you would like to be a session reviewer for CCCC 2021, please visit this Google Spreadsheet to sign up for a session to review. You…