Author: Nicole K. Golden

The audio you have just listened to (see above) is only a short excerpt from a collaborative podcast created by a group of students in an upper-level Writing Across Media course at The University of Alabama. In this context, we define collaborative podcasting as a process in which more than two students co-plan and co-create an audio composition in which they engage in meaningful conversation on a topic of mutual interest intended for a real audience. For this collaborative effort to serve social justice, we argue that it should invite students to draw on their own lived experiences and share…

In our call for submissions, we asked educators from across the disciplines to share teaching materials that forward social justice pedagogies. While our understanding of social justice is grounded in the field of Technical and Professional Communication’s ongoing social justice turn toward actionable and coalitional justice, we invited contributors to briefly discuss how their course materials enact socially just pedagogies as they understand them across contexts such as writing studies, composition, writing center studies, rhetoric writ large, and still others. Their unique course syllabi and activities join a chorus of existing materials within both the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC)…

Presenter: Kalpana Shrestha (East Carolina University, PhD Student) Content warning: The presentation discussed in this review focuses on the Global South’s anti-rape movement. Rape is referred to strictly in name only in this piece and is not discussed to any other extent. Each year I’ve gone to CCCCs, I’m there for sessions about Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) communities or by APIDA-identifying scholars. As a Japanese American who studies APIDA communities, I find CCCCs and the Asian/Asian American Caucus to serve an important role in my professional development and sense of belonging in the fields of rhetoric and technical…

The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s Syllabus Repository and Teaching and Learning Materials collections are peer-contributed resources dedicated to providing open-source pedagogical artifacts. Beyond digital archives, we view these two repositories as possible mentoring texts and formative models that could inspire instructors in the current moment. In this call, we ask educators from across the disciplines to share syllabi and other course materials which center social justice-oriented pedagogies, including themes such as anti-racism, equity, inclusion, and more. By curating these resources, our aim is to provide alternative pathways for scholars to share pedagogical strategies that actively challenge systemic inequities. As PhD…