Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed publication of the NCTE. It appears twice annually in College Composition & Communication and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
Call for Essays: Contingent Faculty Activism
Nationwide, we have seen a surge of activism in response to the continued corporatization of education–high school teachers walking out in Virginia and California, graduate students unionizing, and adjunct faculty organizing in Florida and North Carolina. This special issue is inspired by this latest surge in action. Composition and English studies has significant scholarship dedicated to documenting and theorizing labor problems and conditions. This special issue concerns what happens next.
Recent anthologies like Composition in the Age of Austerity (2016), Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor & Action in English Composition (2017), and Labored: The State(ment) and Future Work in Composition (2017) do some of this work. The editorial board of Forum invites authors, especially contingent, non-tenure-track, and adjunct faculty in English studies, to contribute to this growing body of scholarship. We are interested in movements, actions, and policies small and large, concerning single departments or entire systems. Where possible, pieces should be framed by or connect to the work of writing and English department faculty.
Writers may approach the theme in a variety of ways, including but not limited to the following:
Due to Forum’s space limitations, essays should be between 1500 and 2500 words. While authors should reference current professional / scholarly discussions, extensive literature reviews are not required. Submissions will go through peer review. For further information please contact Amy Lynch-Biniek at lynchbin@kutztown.edu.
Submit your work electronically to lynchbin@kutztown.edu. Put the words "FORUM article" in your subject line. Submissions should include the following information:
The Forum editorial board: Natalie Dorfeld, Steve Fox, Jes Philbrook, and Amy Lynch-Biniek
Call for Essays: Contingent Faculty Activism
Nationwide, we have seen a surge of activism in response to the continued corporatization of education–high school teachers walking out in Virginia and California, graduate students unionizing, and adjunct faculty organizing in Florida and North Carolina. This special issue is inspired by this latest surge in action. Composition and English studies has significant scholarship dedicated to documenting and theorizing labor problems and conditions. This special issue concerns what happens next.
Recent anthologies like Composition in the Age of Austerity (2016), Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor & Action in English Composition (2017), and Labored: The State(ment) and Future Work in Composition (2017) do some of this work. The editorial board of Forum invites authors, especially contingent, non-tenure-track, and adjunct faculty in English studies, to contribute to this growing body of scholarship. We are interested in movements, actions, and policies small and large, concerning single departments or entire systems. Where possible, pieces should be framed by or connect to the work of writing and English department faculty.
Writers may approach the theme in a variety of ways, including but not limited to the following:
- Where has contingent faculty action or activism worked, and in what contexts? What made these initiatives successful? What was learned through these successes?
- Where has contingent faculty activism not worked, and in what contexts? What caused these initiatives to fail? What was learned through these failures?
- How might our disciplinary knowledge in Composition, Rhetoric, and English studies best be employed in our activism?
- How do geographic location, state laws, and institution type affect progress in contingent faculty activism?
- What possibilities remain for contingent faculty activism in various contexts?
Due to Forum’s space limitations, essays should be between 1500 and 2500 words. While authors should reference current professional / scholarly discussions, extensive literature reviews are not required. Submissions will go through peer review. For further information please contact Amy Lynch-Biniek at lynchbin@kutztown.edu.
Submit your work electronically to lynchbin@kutztown.edu. Put the words "FORUM article" in your subject line. Submissions should include the following information:
- your name
- your title(s)
- your institution(s)
- home address and phone number; institutional address(es) and phone number(s)
- if applicable, venue(s) where submission was first published or presented previously
The Forum editorial board: Natalie Dorfeld, Steve Fox, Jes Philbrook, and Amy Lynch-Biniek
I am pleased to announce that I've accepted a second term as editor of Forum: Issue About Part-Time & Contingent Faculty. I invite you to submit essays related to non-tenure-track faculty in college English or composition.
Of particular interest are the impacts of labor practices on the field of rhetoric and composition; connections between contingency and pedagogy; and strategies for educational and labor activism.
Submissions for the fall issue should be received no later than April 1; for the spring issue, the deadline is August 1. Note: submissions will not be returned. Submit your work to lynchbin@kutztown.edu . Put the words "FORUM article" in your subject line.
Submissions should include the following information:
Of particular interest are the impacts of labor practices on the field of rhetoric and composition; connections between contingency and pedagogy; and strategies for educational and labor activism.
Submissions for the fall issue should be received no later than April 1; for the spring issue, the deadline is August 1. Note: submissions will not be returned. Submit your work to lynchbin@kutztown.edu . Put the words "FORUM article" in your subject line.
Submissions should include the following information:
- your name
- your title(s)
- your institution(s)
- home address and phone number; institutional address(es) and phone number(s)
- if applicable, venue(s) where submission was first published or presented previousl
