WAC Clearinghouse Fellows
The WAC Clearinghouse offers fellowship opportunities for new and early career scholars who are interested in expanding their editorial and administrative experience through involvement in one or more of our publishing venues. The positions typically involve a 6- or 12-month appointment and include a modest stipend. Generally, fellows join an editorial team for a journal, book series, or other Clearinghouse project and shadow members of the team to learn about publishing. Each fellow also takes on at least one project to advance the work of the journal, book series, or project.
The purpose of the fellowships is to expose interested scholars—typically but not always scholars who are at an early point in their careers—to editorial activities. Fellows can but are not expected to remain engaged with the Clearinghouse in some way following their time as fellows.
Past Calls for Proposals
Fellows
Charles Bazerman New Scholar Fellow, 2024-25
Yvette Chairez, Texas A&M University – San Antonio
Yvette Chairez is a Lecturer of English at Texas A&M University – San Antonio where she teaches rhetoric and composition with a heavy focus on experiential learning. Currently, she is partnered with her institution's new Special Collections department to design student projects that will aid in its mission of becoming a leading repository of South Texas Borderlands history. In early 2025, she will assume a Subject Lead role on the NEH-funded grant “Using AI to Support the Writing and Archiving of Oral History Narratives Among Minority College Students in San Antonio.” Chairez’s research specializations are visual and digital rhetorics and feminist new materialisms, with an emphasis on Mexican-American art, culture, and performance. Her forthcoming co-authored anthology documents fashion as a rhetorical form of resistance in contemporary cultural productions within the US-Mexico borderlands; her chapter is a critical case study on garments created with augmented reality by Latinx designers. Chairez lives in the Texas hill country with her family and their Sphynx.
Will Hochman New Scholar Fellow, 2024-25
Zakery R. Muñoz, Syracuse University
Zakery Muñoz was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is currently a PhD candidate at Syracuse University where he awaits to defend his dissertation, Better Writers: Our Relationship to Graduate Student Writers in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies. His work is forthcoming in College Composition and Communication.
Susan H. McLeod New Scholar Fellow, 2024-25
Gina Hanson, California State University, San Bernardino
Gina Hanson is a non-tenure-track faculty member at California State University, San Bernardino, where she teaches composition, literature, and creative writing courses. Her research interests include contingent academic labor and labor justice. Her dissertation looked at professional equity and shared governance inclusion for lecturer faculty in the California State University system. When she’s not researching and writing, she’s rescuing senior cats and dogs with her non-profit senior animal rescue.
Charles Bazerman New Scholar Fellow, 2023-24
Leah Heilig, University of Rhode Island
Leah Heilig (she/her/hers), PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Professional & Public Writing at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches courses in technical communication, user experience and human-centered design, and writing about health and disability. Her research focuses on technical communication, accessibility, and disability studies, with a focus on inclusion for those with psychiatric or mental disability. Her work can be found in The International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Communication Design Quarterly, The Palgrave Handbook for Disability and Communication, Journal of Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, and Technical Communication Quarterly, among others.
Will Hochman New Scholar Fellow, 2023-24
Macy Dunklin, Texas A&M University
Macy Dunklin comes from Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a doctoral candidate and writing consultant at the University of Texas A&M. Their research interests vary widely from sexual health to trans media representation to graduate student professional development. In a word, “access” describes the overarching drive for Macy’s research and passion projects. They are deeply invested in equity, solidarity, and accessibility in higher education and beyond, and hope to continue developing outreach initiatives to support under-recognized minorities on campus. Macy co-hosted the inaugural Virtual WAC Journal Mini-Conference through the Will Hochman New Scholars Fellowship and, as the second part of the fellowship, has an edited special forum appearing in the Spring 2025 issue of The WAC Journal.
Susan H. McLeod New Scholar Fellow, 2023-24
Hannah Locher, The Ohio State University
Hannah Locher is a PhD student in the Writing, Rhetoric, & Literacies program where she studies feminist rhetorical new materialisms (RNM), Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines (WAC/WID), and antiracist pedagogies and administration. Her research focuses on locating equitable and sustainable scholarly practices that attend to embodiment and identity across writing ecologies.