English Department Faculty Present at CCCC 2024

English Department Faculty Present at CCCC 2024  

The Conference on College Composition and Communication is the leading organization in writing studies. It convened April 3-6, 2024 in Spokane, Washington, celebrating its 75th anniversary with a theme of “Writing Abundance.” 

Prior to the conference, half and full day workshops were held. Associate Professor Jessica Rivera-Mueller co-facilitated a full day workshop, “Dual Enrollment Composition: An Abundance of Opportunity for Equity and Access.” During this workshop, Jessica shared a recorded interview with Marianne Hale who shared her master’s thesis research on self-efficacy. Additionally, Jessica presented her scholarship on mentoring in a session on “Attending to Excess to Make Abundant (Academic) Lives Possible.”   

Other faculty presenting during the conference sessions included the following: Kristen Wheaton in a session on “Crafting Resistance through Feminism, Creating Space for Abundance: Rhetorical Interventions in and around Writing and Activism”; Jared Colton in a session focused on “Ethics of Writing Abundance: Taking Stock and Examining Futures”; Chen Chen focusing on “Tactical Genre Uptakes in the Global Protests against China’s ‘Zero-COVID’ Policy.” Chen is also a member of the CCCC Executive Committee. Ben Gunsberg, whose undergraduates’ work has been published in venues such as JUMP, participated in a roundtable session on “Ways for Undergraduates to Exhibit Their Work in Multimodal Classes.”  

A panel on “Queer and Antiracist Composition Pedagogies in Action” featured Director of Composition Beth Buyserie, graduate student Mina Weeks, and alum Taylor Wyatt, who is pursuing a PhD at Clemson University. 

Professor Emeritus Joyce Kinkead attended a half-day workshop for Consultant-Evaluators of the Council of Writing Program Administration. She concludes her tenure as an evaluator this spring.  

CCCC 2025 will convene in Baltimore, April 9-12; proposals are due this May.