As we begin one academic year and look back at the last, the DRC Fellows share their reflections on their projects, collaborations, and takeaways from the Fellowship. It was wonderful to work with each of the Fellows this year, and to see the ways in which connections with DRC advisory board members, directors, and other fellows developed. Additionally, all of the fellows co-presented at Computers and Writing this year and interviewed the past and current editors of Computers and Composition. We wish the Fellows the best on the next part of their journey and appreciate all their contributions! Thais Rodrigues…
Author: Thais Rodrigues Cons
Ali Alalem, Thais Rodrigues Cons, Nicole K. Golden, Erin Miller, Mehdi Mohammadi, Funmilola Fadairo
Thais Rodrigues Cons is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric & Composition at the University of Arizona, where she currently works as a Writing Across the Curriculum graduate associate. Her research interests include Technical and Professional Writing, Critical Digital Literacies, Multilingual Writing & Identity, Writing Program Administration, and Archival Studies.
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)…
Our Blog Carnival 24 comes at a time when the learning and well-being of many students are impacted by the enforcement of anti-DEI policies and growing restrictions on how educators, tutors, administrators, leaders, and directors can attend to the varied ways students learn, belong, and thrive within a globalized, multicultural, inclusive, and habitable world. While grappling with these challenges, GenAI technologies have emerged simultaneously as an uncontainable disruptive force, leaving many of us wondering whether to refuse them or to engage with them critically and thoughtfully. Against this backdrop, the contributions we have published demonstrate that our valued authors have…
Welcome to Part II of Blog Carnival 24: Multimodality, Social Justice, and Human-Centered Praxis. As we continue to amplify the amazing justice-oriented work instructors and practitioners are doing across our field, this second group of posts broadens our scope. While authors continue to explore innovative approaches in First-Year Composition, Part II expands into Technical and Professional Communication (TPC), digital rhetoric, content creation, and diverse Writing Program Administration roles, including Writing Center and training faculty across the disciplines. The nine posts featured here demonstrate how multimodality acts as a powerful intervention not just in our assignments, but in the ways we…