Each year, as an allied organization, the Council of Writing Program Administrators hosts a guaranteed session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention. The MLA’s presidential theme for the 2022 convention is Multilingual US.
The CWPA Liaison Committee and Mark Blaauw-Hara, CWPA’s President, invite proposals for the CWPA’s guaranteed session. Particularly in pandemic times, we are about flexibility to accommodate proposals that line up with your work, and so we encourage you to submit any of the following types of proposals:
We would be pleased to see proposals that honor the convention’s emphasis on “imagining and supporting a linguistically diverse commons, to make language a tool of inclusion rather than exclusion … while attending to the complex histories and erasures that have led to our present condition,” bringing these foci to our work in writing program administration and the study and teaching of writing, literacy, and rhetoric. In the spirit of flexibility and accessibility, however, we are also pleased to consider proposals that address the work of WPAs and teachers of writing and literacy from other perspectives as well. Central criteria for selection include subject matter and discussion that will represent CWPA and the work of its members well to MLA and its attendees, and clearly demonstrate the potential to draw attendees to the session. Proposals should explain carefully their exigence for MLA attendees.
Proposals must be submitted by Noon PDT, Monday, March 22:
All presenters must be members of CWPA.
Submission deadline: March 22, 2021, noon PDT
Committee response: March 29, 2021
Panelist deadline to join MLA (which is required): April 7, 2021
Convention location, dates, additional information: Washington, D.C., January 6-9, 2022
Proposals will be reviewed by the CWPA Liaison Committee: Doug Downs (chair), Jake Castle, Sara Humphreys, Trish Serviss, Bradley Smith, Tom Sura, and Nicole Wallack.
Questions about this call should be directed to Doug Downs, doug.downs@montana.edu.