Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp

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The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition fosters inquiry in feminist histories, theories, and pedagogies. https://cfshrc.org/

Practicing Resilience at 40: Marking Four Decades of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. 500 word proposals due September 1.
Description Examining the works of ten different transgender comic creators, including Julia Kaye, Mae Dean, and N.D. Stevenson, Zoe Wendler and Jamie Garner show the vital role these comics play in online transgender communities. Dreaming Ourselves Intro Being: The Rhetoric of Trans Comics explore the ways in which trangender webcomic creators and their readers use the medium to offer guidance on coming out, support during those early months, and hope for a world in which being transgender is far from remarkable. Ultimately, they show how these comics fill the void created by decades of cruel medical gatekeeping and neglect and media representation that reduced the incredible complexity of gender diversity into a binary transness much more palatable to cisgender audiences. This book is a deeply interdisciplinary autoethnography, bringing together research in rhetoric, medicine, history, psychology, sociology, queer studies, and comic studies to show just how essential transgender webcomics are to the trans artists that create them and the trans people who read them.
Danielle Mollie Stambler's article "Rhetorical Sandwiches: Layering Ethos and Epideictic Appeals as a Persuasive Strategy in Public Discourses of Healthy Eating" in the Spring 2026 issue of Peitho argues that when healthy lifestyle articles sandwich expert opinion around hedged science, they reinscribe hegemonic nutrition norms wrapped in the language of wellness.
Jessica Edens McCrary's article "Framing Failure and Success: Retrospective Remembering in Oral History Archives" in the Spring 2026 issue of Peitho uses feminist rhetorical microhistory to reveal that what grand narratives call 'failure' may really be progress at a scale our inherited metrics aren't designed to capture.
Olivia Rowland's article "Capitalist Rhetoric, Anticapitalist Struggle: Reevaluating Wages for Housework" in the Spring 2026 issue of Peitho shows how WFH activists turned capitalism's own rhetorics against themselves to expose the contradictions in how reproductive labor is organized and valued.
The flyer states: "#RSA2026, the feminists are coming! Sunday Round Up. Follow on Facebook @CFSHRC & Bluesky:@cfshrc.bsky.social for future feminist events!"
The flyer states: "#RSA2026, the feminists are coming! Saturday Round Up. Follow on Facebook @CFSHRC & Bluesky:@cfshrc.bsky.social for tomorrow’s roundup of panels!"
The Coalition @ RSA Come join us! Happy hour at The Benson Hotel on May 22, 2026, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm.
The flyer states: "#RSA2026, the feminists are coming! Friday Round Up. Follow on Facebook @CFSHRC & Bluesky:@cfshrc.bsky.social for tomorrow’s roundup of panels!"
The flyer states: "#RSA2026, the feminists are coming! Let's connect in Portland. Follow on Facebook @CFSHRC & Bluesky:@cfshrc.bsky.social for panels, events, and more feminist fun!"
The Coalition @ RSA Come join us! Happy hour at The Benson Hotel on May 22, 2026, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm.
Are you presenting at RSA in Portland? We want to feature you! Drop us a comment or send us a DM with your presentation title and time. We'll share out feminist sessions leading up to the conference!
The flyer states, "Join the coalition for a 4C27 Writing Session. Friday, May 15th, 9-10 PT/12-1 ET. Register at Tiny.cc/write4cs"
The flyer states, "Join the coalition for a 4C27 Writing Session. Friday, May 15th, 9-10 PT/12-1 ET. Register at Tiny.cc/write4cs"
Meme format: Angela sneaks up behind Dwight (characters from The Office). Dwight is labeled "Summer Break" and Angela is labeled "May 27 Deadline for CCCC's Proposals."
Critical Fandom positions fan authors as rhetoricians and fan fiction as an action. Every fan author navigates—implicitly or explicitly—the politics of their fandom, the media they love, their lived experiences, digital technologies, reader expectations, and a larger culture. To better understand critical fans, Cara Marta Messina analyzes Archive of Our Own tagging practices, fan fictions, and interviews from four different fandoms. Fans of The Legend of Korra celebrate queer relationships while understanding representation is just the first step in the face of systemic homophobia. Game of Thrones fan authors challenge racism and heteronormativity in both the community and the show. In online forums for Black Panther, fans make space for sapphic romances and explore the humanity of Erik Killmonger, ultimately contending with harmful stereotypes of radical Black men. And the Our Flag Means Death fandom demonstrates how a show can flourish when it centers queerness, especially for trans fans. Even in these moments of joy, there’s conflict. Critical Fandom seeks to answer what comes next.
Congratulations to Cara Marta Messina (Marist University) on her forthcoming book Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fan Fiction, published with the University of Iowa Press! This book "positions fan authors as rhetoricians and fan fiction as an action."
Image reads: "Seeking co-presenters for 4Cs roundtable about experiences of “pandemic PhDs” in rhetoric & writing studies: bringing together people who were in grad programs or who were mentoring grad students during the Covid-19 pandemic to reflect on the possible futures our field is creating or contemplating in its wake. Contact mannonbo@appstate.edu to connect!"
The flyer states: "Peitho Bookclub. The Coalition's Grad Student Engagement Committee is reading and discussing the latest issue of Peitho! Join us!"
How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor—and how to overcome them Although the covid-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife bound­aries converged and collapsed. These gendered workplace struggles were not unique to the pandemic but rather were exacerbated and exposed by the public health response. In Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, scholars, teachers, and administrators pair eyewitness narratives with sustained interrogation of interminable labor inequities to demonstrate the ongoing dilemmas posed by gendered social and professional expectations. Contributors, grounded in rhetoric and composition scholarship and feminist methodologies, highlight systemic labor issues and suggest solutions to these embedded, ongoing problems. They pose critical questions regarding institutions’ responsibilities for engaging intentional decision-making practices both to disrupt recurrent work imbalances and support sustainable, ethically managed academic labor practices.
Congratulations to editors Jessica Edens McCrary (Emory U) and Lynée Lewis Gaillet (Georgia State U) and all the chapter authors on the publication of their edited collection Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, published with the University of South Carolina University Press!
The poster states, "Coalition Members: are you heading to RSA?" below is an image of a sign with a white stag and the words Portland, Oregon.
Congratulations to Jenna Vinson, Associate Professor at UMass Lowell, on the publication of her book Stop Saying Snip! The Rhetoric of Vasectomy, published with Rutgers University Press! This book's multimodal analysis draws on media, policy, and interviews to examine the tropes and practices that obstruct vasectomy uptake.
A collage that reads: Thank you! Together, we raised $5,827 to support the CFSHRC. The collage background has clouds, mountains, pressed flowers, and a disco ball.
Congratulations to editors Kristine Acosta, Michelle Cowan, Rebecca Rickly, Nancy Small, and Erica M. Stone on the publication of their open-access book Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies, published with the WAC Clearinghouse! The collection explore how the various identities and lived experiences of scholars shape their professional personas, research methodologies, and teaching practices.
A collage that reads: We've raised $5,139 of $7,500! Can you help us reach our goal? The collage has a green background, images of a road leading into mountains, a hand holding a megaphone, flowers, and hand-drawn clouds, stars, and a rainbow.
A collage that reads: Funding Feminist Futures $1000 raised so far! Even $5 helps! :) The collage has images of a megaphone, an open mouth smiling, flowers, a film strip, colorful paper and tape, and hand-drawn stars.
The post reads: "My travel across the country to FemRhet 2025, funded by the Shirley Wilson Logan Diversity Scholarship, gave me the gift of living out the legacy of my ancestors. Building community with other feminist scholars opened up a new world to me. The Coalition's commitment to including junior scholars in conference experiences proved invaluable for my personal and professional development. The community I met continues to help me expand my scholarship and explore what kind of work I offer. I am excited about the generative ways these opportunities will buoy feminist research as they did for me."
Funding Feminist Futures $5 from you, $7,500 for our community. There are butterfly graphics on a stylized green and purple background.
CFSHRC's Feminist Bingo: Complete a full row, column, or diagonal to win! Prizes include your choice of a book from Parlor Press's Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms (3 available), vinyl rhetoric stickers designed by Ryan Skinnell (5 packs of 5 stickers available), and a takeout box (sourdough starter, seasoning, and mini food zines) from the panelists of "Coming to the Table" (1 available). Comment or tag us to claim your prize! @CFSHRC on Facebook or Bluesky.
The flyer features knitting needs and yarn and a record and reads: "2nd Annual 4C26 Stitch & Spin. Fri, Mar. 6th 7:30-9:30 pm, The Loft, Atrium 4th Floor. Add a song to our collaborative playlist!"
A flyer surrounded by quilt squares reads: "You're Invited! Feminist Caucus Open Meeting. Friday, March 6, 3:30-4:30, Room 24, Huntington Convention Center, CCCC 2026."
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CFSHRC's Feminist Bingo: Complete a full row, column, or diagonal to win! Prizes include your choice of a book from Parlor Press's Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms (3 available), vinyl rhetoric stickers designed by Ryan Skinnell (5 packs of 5 stickers available), and a takeout box (sourdough starter, seasoning, and mini food zines) from the panelists of "Coming to the Table" (1 available). DM us to claim your prize! @CFSHRC on Facebook or Bluesky.
Two DMODs seeking dining partners for lunch today in Cleveland. Contact vee.lawson@sjsu.edu and kellirgill@gmail.com or comment below to connect!
A photo taken from the back of a conference room. On a screen, the CFSHRC welcomes incoming president Cristy Beemer and shares tentative dates for the 2027 Feminisms and Rhetorics conference at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities: August 5-7.
A pile of vinyl stickers in clear plastic bags. Some visible stickers read "Dinosaurs didn't have rhetoric and now they're all dead" and "Rhetoric connects worlds."
CFSHRC's Feminist Bingo: Complete a full row, column, or diagonal to win! Prizes include your choice of a book from Parlor Press's Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms (3 available), vinyl rhetoric stickers designed by Ryan Skinnell (5 packs of 5 stickers available), and a takeout box (sourdough starter, seasoning, and mini food zines) from the panelists of "Coming to the Table" (1 available). DM us to claim your prize! @CFSHRC on Facebook or Bluesky.
This poster showcases featured speaker Kelli R. Gill and a description of her talk, titled "Food Rhetorics: Building Community in Digital Spaces." Her roundtable discussion will explore her experiences working across food studies, digital technologies, and cultural rhetorics.
This poster showcases featured speaker Jainab T. Banu and a description of her talk, titled "Refusal of Normative Body Ideals through Reclaiming Hunger & Fat Identity in Life Writing." The talk explores how memoirs function as a feminist rhetorical site where food, fatness, and the body are reclaimed as acts of resistance.
The poster reads, "The CCCC 2026 Feminist Workshop: Food as Intersectional Feminist Work, Resistancec, Hope, and Community. Spend the day with us learning about intersectional feminist approaches to food pedagogy, research, and community partnerships. Wednesday, 3.4.26. All Day Workshop"
Feminist Connections: ADHD enby queer feminist seeks others in the humanities who are dissertating for zoom writing sessions. Ideal writing partners would enjoy occasional talking to problem-solve. Contact rblountwilson@unc.edu to connect!
Congratulations to Valanci Villa, PhD Student at Washington State University! Her project, "Rhetorics of Survival: An Analysis of Domestic Violence Litigants Electing Pro Se in California Family Courts," has been funded through the Nancy A. Myers Feminist Research Grant.
Feminists @ CCCCs features Learning and Teaching Histories of Women's Rhetorical Education through Experiential Learning, led by Sarah Polo from Cottey College. It meets from 11:00 to 11:30AM Eastern Time on Saturday, 3/7, in Room 19. Its session code is LA.6.
Feminists @ CCCCs features Learning and Teaching Histories of Women's Rhetorical Education through Experiential Learning, led by Sarah Polo from Cottey College. It meets from 11:00 to 11:30AM Eastern Time on Saturday, 3/7, in Room 19. Its session code is LA.6.
Feminists @ CCCCs features Coming to the Table: Engaging Food Rhetorics in Composition and Professional Writing, led by Jody Shipka, Kelli Gill, Ashley Beardsely, Melissa Stone, Erica Leigh, and Zachary Beare. It meets on Saturday (3/7) from 9:30 to 10:45AM Eastern Time in Atrium Ballroom D. Its session code is K.3.
Feminists @ CCCCs features Coming to the Table: Engaging Food Rhetorics in Composition and Professional Writing, led by Jody Shipka, Kelli Gill, Ashley Beardsely, Melissa Stone, Erica Leigh, and Zachary Beare. It meets on Saturday (3/7) from 9:30 to 10:45AM Eastern Time in Atrium Ballroom D. Its session code is K.3.
Feminists @ CCCCs features The Conference and the Caregiver: Addressing Conference Access for Caregivers and Those with Caregiving Needs, led by Alex Hanson, Lisa Reid, Alanna Frost, Jessica Nastal, and Krys Ingman. It meets from 10:30 to 11:45AM on Thursday, 3/5, in Room 6. Its session code is A.15.
Feminists @ CCCCs features The Conference and the Caregiver: Addressing Conference Access for Caregivers and Those with Caregiving Needs, led by Alex Hanson, Lisa Reid, Alanna Frost, Jessica Nastal, and Krys Ingman. It meets from 10:30 to 11:45AM on Thursday, 3/5, in Room 6. Its session code is A.15.
Feminists @ CCCCs features The Conference and the Caregiver: Addressing Conference Access for Caregivers and Those with Caregiving Needs, led by Alex Hanson, Lisa Reid, Alanna Frost, Jessica Nastal, and Krys Ingman. It meets from 10:30 to 11:45AM on Thursday, 3/5, in Room 6. Its session code is A.15.
The 2026 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award Winner is Dr. Alexis McGee for her book From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics (SUNY Press).
The 2026 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention goes to Dr. Liane Malinowksi for City Housekeeping: Women's Labor Rhetorics and Spaces for Solidarity, 1886-1911, published with Parlor Press Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms.
The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition invites you to the Annual Wednesday Night event at CCCCs 2026: Feminist Pedagogies 'In These Times' — A Teach-In. The event will also have mentoring tables. It takes place from 6-8 P.M. Eastern Time on March 4, 2026. All are welcome! Bring a friend! To register for the Zoom simulcast (first hour only), use the link in the post.
Feminists @ CCCCs features From Theory of Labor to the Practice of Slow Work in the Writing Classroom. The panel is led by Lindsey Novak, Timothy Oleksiak, Kathleen Dillon, and Kitty Geoghan. It will meet from 2:00 to 3:15 on Friday, March 6, in Room 25 B. Its session code is I.10.
Feminists @ CCCCs features From Theory of Labor to the Practice of Slow Work in the Writing Classroom. The panel is led by Lindsey Novak, Timothy Oleksiak, Kathleen Dillon, and Kitty Geoghan. It will meet from 2:00 to 3:15 on Friday, March 6, in Room 25 B. Its session code is I.10.
Feminists @ CCCCs features Feminist Faculty Leadership: Real Talk. The roundtable is led by Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Sheila Carter-Tod, Jenn Fishman, Mary P. Sheridan, Darci Thoune, and Shevaun Watson. It will meet from 12:30 to 1:45 on Friday, March 6, in Atrium Ballroom D. Its session code is H.3.
Feminists @ CCCCs features Feminist Faculty Leadership: Real Talk. The roundtable is led by Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Sheila Carter-Tod, Jenn Fishman, Mary P. Sheridan, Darci Thoune, and Shevaun Watson. It will meet from 12:30 to 1:45 on Friday, March 6, in Atrium Ballroom D. Its session code is H.3.
Feminists @ CCCCs features Feminist Faculty Leadership: Real Talk. The roundtable is led by Michelle Bachelor Robinson, Sheila Carter-Tod, Jenn Fishman, Mary P. Sheridan, Darci Thoune, and Shevaun Watson. It will meet from 12:30 to 1:45 on Friday, March 6, in Atrium Ballroom D. Its session code is H.3.
Are you presenting at #4C26? We want to feature you! Drop us a comment or send us a DM with your presentation title, time/room, and a brief description. We'll share out feminist sessions leading up to the conference!
2025 Presidents Dissertation Award Winner. Congratulations to Dr. Haley Swartz for her dissertation "Rhetorics of Vigilance: Refracting Discourses in Technologies of Self-Managed Health & Wellness."