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.