CFP: The Peer Review 2022 Special Issue

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Dear colleagues,

We’re happy to announce our call for submissions for The Peer Review 2022 Special Issue. 

We are accepting article proposals for review until March 30, 2022. Please see more information in the CFP below and the attached PDF. 

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Call for Proposals: (Re)Investigating Our Commonplaces in Writing Centers

 

The Peer Review Special Issue invites proposals of 300-around 500 words for a special issue on (Re)Investigating Writing Center Commonplaces. We ask prospective contributors to submit proposals for papers based on empirical research, conceptual inquiry, theory-to-practice approaches, narrative research, or any other methodology. Contributors could consider, but not feel limited by, the following questions about how,  and to what extent,  our commonplaces are changing–and how we are communicating those changes to stakeholders. As writing centers embrace liberatory political stances, and as their users become more diverse and more aware of identity,

• How have commonplaces—everyday assumptions and regular, often embodied, practices—changed, and how does critical analysis of these commonplaces reveal the contradictions writing center practitioners navigate?

• From the point of view of racialized, disabled, or LGBTQ2IA practitioners,  what does the well-documented tension between standardizing, regulatory practices, and radical practices that value writers’ diverse identities look like? Do consultants, writers, and administrators with minoritized identities have opportunities to talk candidly back to the center?

•  How can we build further on commonplace practices that mirror the emancipatory thrust of writing center politics, in the way that Suhr-Sytsma and Brown (2011) did against what they called “the everyday language of oppression”?

•  How do writing centers affect change in academic units beyond their boundaries? What models do we have for communicating our emancipatory commonplaces to the outside?

• How have practices related to tutoring (greetings, session schedules and time-blocks, use of space, caveats about text ownership,  directive/non-directive dilemmas, editing or the fear of it, session logs, writer feedback to tutors, and so on) responded to liberatory goals? 

• How have practices related to hiring of staff, tutor education, professionalization, research, conferences, citation, and publication responded to calls for justice and diversity?[2]

 

We strongly encourage emerging scholars, graduate students and, emerging scholars (and women, people of color, translingual speakers, and those identifying with other groups underrepresented within the discipline),  and undergraduates to submit their proposals and manuscripts to our special issue.  

2022 Special Issue Timeline

March 30: Article proposals due (300-500 words)

April 30: Invitations to submit full articles

June 30: Full draft of manuscripts due (4000-6000 words including references)

August 31: Feedback to authors

October 31: Final drafts due

December: Publication of special issue

If you have questions or would like to share ideas, please contact commonp...@gmail.com 

Editors

Vidya Natarajan

Assistant Professor, and Assistant Coordinator, Writing

Department of English, French, and Writing

King's University College

London ON

Krista Speicher Sarraf

Teaching Assistant Professor of English

Interim Eberly Writing Studio Coordinator & SpeakWrite Specialist

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

Wenqi Cui

Ph.D. Candidate, Composition and Applied Linguistics Program

English Department

Indiana University of Pennsylvania