We are now accepting proposals for this year’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs, CT on Saturday, April 20th, 2024. Proposal submissions are due Monday, February 5, 2024 and can be submitted through this form. We are thrilled to be hosting Aja Y. Martinez as this year’s keynote speaker.
We invite proposals that consider our conference theme “Counterstories, Co-Conspirators, and Composition.” Drawing on the rich history of counterstories in Critical Race Theory we hope to make use of Aja Y. Martinez’s understanding of counterstory in Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory, as "methods that empower the minoritized through the formation of stories that disrupt the erasures embedded in standardized majoritarian methodologies.” In other words, counterstories reveal the possibilities of the narratives that have been moved to the margins and make the stories we tell not only more complete, but also more abundant, complex, and worthy of exploration. Acknowledging counterstories as worthy of a place in our classrooms destabilizes the idea that only some stories belong in scholarship and requires all of us to engage in revisionist history.
Please see the full CFP (located on our website) for more information about how and where to submit proposals. Faculty and graduate student applicants are all welcome, so please share this CFP with anyone you think might be interested.
Please email us at fywconference@uconn.edu with any questions!
For more information, contact: First-Year Writing at fywconference@uconn.edu