IWAC 2023 Edited Collection Call for Proposals

Aug 15, 2023

Growing out of the 2023 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Writing Worldviews: The 2023 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference Edited Collection recognizes the crucial moment at which we stand as scholars and practitioners of writing and communicating across disciplines. The collection focuses on the role we have in using the power of language to affect worldviews and address calls for linguistic and social justice. That role has never been more evident than now, in the face of current events. In recent years, we have had to respond to many educational challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on our students’ ways of learning and being in instructional settings; the increasing number of linguistically and culturally diverse students enrolled in our institutions; workplaces that require ever more sophisticated communication and critical thinking skills; the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI); and the urgent need to help faculty and students teach and learn successfully in a time of global tensions and crisis.

This conference volume welcomes empirical work, empirically driven theoretical work, and theoretically informed reflective teaching narratives that are forward thinking in addressing these many challenges, both domestic and global. We invite proposals that address broad categories of writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing in the disciplines (WID) scholarship, including but not limited to:

The role of WAC/WID in addressing access, equity, and social justice/social justice literacy: Topics such as educating faculty members about antiracist writing and assessment practices (Condon & Young, 2016; García de Mueller, 2020; Gere et al, 2021; Inoue, 2022; Inoue & Poe, 2012; Martini & Webster, 2021); thinking forward to how WAC/WID becomes more focused on social justice literacy (LeCourt, 1996; Poe, 2016; Poe et al., 2018; Villanueva, 2001); helping cultivate accessible, inclusive and equitable environments for students and faculty (Hanauer et al., 2019; Hubrig et al., 2022; Mecklenburg-Faenger, 2022); opening access to higher education in communities (Kells, 2019); or the reach and impact of WAC/WID in two-year colleges, minority-serving institutions, and international campuses of US-based institutions (Jordan, 2022; Kester et al., 2016; Norment, 2021)
The role of WAC/WID in a time of global turmoil: Topics such as the impact of global politics on WAC/WID teaching and education (Fraiberg et al., 2017; Martins et al, 2023; Rose & Weiser, 2018); the role of English language and communication globally (You, 2016, 2018); antidemocratic threats to colleges and universities (Mlyn, 2022).
WAC/WID as a transnational movement: Topics such as WAC scholarship’s inter- or transnationality (Hall & Horner, 2023; You, 2016); inclusive multilingual, translingual, or second language pedagogies (Cox, 2014; Frost et al., 2020; Tardy, 2017; Zawacki & Cox, 2013; Zawacki & Habib, 2014); and international adaptations of WAC (Arnold, Nebel & Ronesi, 2017; Ávila Reyes, 2021; Morrison, Chen, Lin, & Urmston, 2021; Gustafsson & Eriksson, 2022).
WAC/WID scholars as agents of change: Topics such as WAC/WID scholars acting as agents of change in the current political, economic and social climate; COVID-related pedagogical changes (Gage & Fleckenstein, 2022; Meyer, 2020); dealing with increasing costs of education and budget cuts (Basgier, forthcoming); proactive integration of generative AI in curricular and pedagogical contexts (Mills, 2022)
WAC/WID and the relationship between the academy and the professions: Topics such as WAC’s ability to adapt to a world that is growing increasingly focused on STEM careers (Gere et al., 2018); transitioning from the academy to the workplace and how social justice plays into that transition; preparing students for communication at different stages of their lives (Poe et al., 2012)

Interested contributors should submit an abstract of 250-300 words to the editors by September 30, 2023. Contributors should expect to revise their submissions, rather than reproduce conference presentations, for several reasons:

a voiced and visual conference presentation is a different genre from the written academic chapter in a print volume collection;
a conference presentation is delivered for a particular audience and often needs to be revised for a print volume that reaches a wider audience;
questions, feedback, and discussion following delivered papers often lead to expanded, more in-depth chapter versions.

Note that any files you submit must be suitable for anonymous review. To the greatest extent possible, please remove identifying information about you (and any co-authors) as well as institutional information.

To submit a proposal, please visit The WAC Clearinghouse Submissions portal, log in (or create an account), select “Submit a Chapter to an Edited Collection,” select the conference collection, and follow the subsequent prompts from there.

Questions can be directed to Christopher Basgier, crb0085@auburn.edu.

Timeline

November 2023: Invitations to submit complete chapter manuscripts

February 2024: Chapter manuscripts due; draft volume circulated to reviewers

First half of 2024: Target date for returning reviewer feedback to the contributors

Second half of 2024: Revised chapters due to the editors

Early 2025: Target for publication

Acknowledgement

This CFP has been revised and updated based on the IWAC 2023 conference CFP. We are grateful to the conference organizers for providing a thoughtful, provocative basis on which to build.

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