Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:50:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP: Rhetoric/Composition: Intersections/Impasses/Differends


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E N C U L T U R A T I O N:
A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture
http://enculturation.gmu.edu
ISSN: 1525-3120
Call for Papers
Special Issue

Rhetoric/Composition: Intersections/Impasses/Differends

The editors of Enculturation seek papers for a special issue on "rhetoric
and composition." The turn toward rhetoric has been credited with the
creation of composition studies as a discipline. Indeed, those on the
rhetoric side of the rhet/comp slash might argue that without rhetoric,
most of the gains composition has made in the past 20 years would have
been impossible. The editors of this special issue are interested in
articles that explore the nature of this relationship represented by the
slash. While in the 80s our journals and conferences discussed rhetorical
issues and their function as composition's disciplinary basis, our focus
has shifted, most often in the direction of cultural studies. What is at
stake in this shift?

Papers may address but are not limited to the topics and questions below:

* History of the relationship between rhetoric and composition. What have
been the points of contact and conflict between rhetoric and composition
studies? Between rhetoricians and compositionists? How are these points of
contact and conflict situated vis-a-vis modernist and postmodernist
rhetorics? What role have institutional and departmental missions played
in creating these points of contact and conflict? How has the slash
between rhet/comp come to be and to mean?

* Composition studies as a rhetorical activity. How does this practice of
composition invite power/politics, gender issues, psychoanalytics, subject
formation, economics, religious teachings, and educational paradigms (and
the theories and ideologies that inform them) into the writing classroom?
How do resulting discussions and the papers they elicit change the purpose
and goals of the writing classroom? How might different
pedagogies--ranging from service learning to teaching for social
change--affect the conceptualization and practice of composition as
rhetorical activity?

* The future relationship between rhetoric and composition studies. How
will the shift to visual rhetorics and electronic technologies affect this
relationship? What role will further (continued? additional?) linking
across disciplinary boundaries and border crossings play in terms of
composition as a discipline (as distinct from or allied with cultural
studies, media studies, etc)? Will the slash between rhet/comp persist?
Will one member of the pair disappear? How and why? In what ways might
composition re-connect with rhetoric? What might the possible outcomes be?

IN ADDITION to academic projects/papers, we are interested in reviews of
original web-sites/projects, recently published books, print or
e-journals, and especially hypertext/web-ready submissions that use
hypertext for rhetorical ends.

Text-based submissions should be no longer than 5000 words. Reviews 1500-2500.

Submissions will be due by 01 February 2003. Please send submissions to:

Eddress:
	Lisa Coleman -- lcoleman-AT-sosu.edu
	Lorien Goodman -- lgoodman-AT-pepperdine.edu

Address:

	Lorien Goodman
	c/o Enculturation
	Humanities/Teacher Ed Division
	Box 4225
	Pepperdine University
	Malibu, CA 90263

On-line Submission Form (text only):
	http://enculturation.gmu.edu/submit.html