“‘You Have to Act…’: An Intersection of Teaching, Mothering, and Activism.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019. (Accepted Proposal)
“‘You Have to Act…’: An Intersection of Teaching, Mothering, and Activism.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019. (Accepted Proposal)
Academic Year:
2018 - 2019 (June 1, 2018 through May 31, 2019)
Funding Requested:
$1,306.00
Project Dates:
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Applicant(s):
Overview of the Project:
I have been accepted to present at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the flagship conference for rhetoric and writing. The theme of the conference is “Performance-Composition, Performance-Rhetoric” and is chaired by Vershawn Ashanti Young. In my teaching, I enact a labor contract as a form of anti-racist writing assessment. My labor contract is influenced by Young and other writing scholars. At CCCC, I will learn more about overlapping topics of interest (code-meshing, intercultural communication, and representations of race) from the framework Young has established for the 2019 conference. Thus, by attending CCCC I seek to bolster my research-based teaching by learning more about evolving theories of how performance shapes embodied understandings of language and literacy.
My CCCC presentation, “‘You Have to Act’: An Intersection of Teaching, Mothering, and Activism,” investigates how academic mothers balance numerous labor commitments, including activism, by incorporating community-based learning into their teaching. My participation with this panel continues a research project on motherhood and activism that I began last year. Presenting on the panel also offers an opportunity to develop future collaborations with fellow panelists and attendees who teach community-based learning courses and who want to advocate for more supportive working environments for mothers.
By attending CCCC, not only will I share my own knowledge production, but I will also learn from the numerous panels and special-interest groups in area clusters related to my research and teaching interests: First-year and Advanced Composition; Language; Community, Civic & Public; and Writing Pedagogies and Processes.
My CCCC presentation, “‘You Have to Act’: An Intersection of Teaching, Mothering, and Activism,” investigates how academic mothers balance numerous labor commitments, including activism, by incorporating community-based learning into their teaching. My participation with this panel continues a research project on motherhood and activism that I began last year. Presenting on the panel also offers an opportunity to develop future collaborations with fellow panelists and attendees who teach community-based learning courses and who want to advocate for more supportive working environments for mothers.
By attending CCCC, not only will I share my own knowledge production, but I will also learn from the numerous panels and special-interest groups in area clusters related to my research and teaching interests: First-year and Advanced Composition; Language; Community, Civic & Public; and Writing Pedagogies and Processes.