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ISSUE 19.1 SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Graduate Teaching Symposium

The most recent double issue of Xchanges (18.1/2) features multiple contributions that draw attention to the unique situatedness of graduate student teaching. These important articles are a stark reminder that simultaneously filling dual roles as a student and an instructor is an institutional space filled with potential and precarity, agency and dis/empowerment, possibility and problems.

For this special issue, we invite submissions from Graduate Student Instructors/Teaching Assistants who are teaching or who have recently taught a composition, writing studies, or technical communication course to continue to examine the important issues that mediate graduate student teaching and survey the current state of graduate teaching. We invite proposals around issues related to labor, gender, and race, administrative duties and possibilities, activism, accessibility, and more. We also invite discussions of pedagogical strategies, classroom activities with rationales, and interrogation of teaching theories.

We envision the upcoming issue of Xchanges taking the form of a symposium (see issue 15.1 of Xchanges), which will allow for a variety of voices and perspectives to be heard. Symposium submissions, therefore, will be shorter than traditional academic papers but still engage with disciplinary conversations through citational practices. Submissions to the Graduate Teaching Symposium should be approximately 3,000-4,000 words in length (not including Works Cited). Submissions may contain a reflective element but should also demonstrate an engagement with on-going disciplinary conversations related to graduate teaching issues.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, but in order for priority in the issue we ask you to work on the following timeline:

Submit 300-word abstracts for review to xchangesjournal@gmail.com by June 30, 2024
If accepted, full drafts should be submitted by August 15, 2024.

Symposium submissions will then be sent out for peer review and returned to contributing authors for revision by October 31, 2024.