April April 3–6, 2024
Spokane, WA
“Writing Abundance: Celebrating 75 Years of Conversations about Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Communication, and Literacy”
Program Chair: Jennifer Sano-FranchiniFebruary 15–18, 2023
Chicago, IL
“Doing Hop in Desperate Times”
Program Chair: Frankie CondonMarch 9–12, 2022
Virtual Convention
“The Promises and Perils of Higher Education: Our Discipline’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Linguistic Justice”
Program Chair: Staci Perryman-ClarkApril 7–10, 2021
Virtual Convention
“We Are All Writing Teachers*: Returning to a Common Place”
Program Chair: Holly HasselMarch 25–28, 2020 (Cancelled)
Milwaukee, WI
“Considering Our Commonplaces”
Program Chair: Julie LindquistMarch 13–16, 2019
Pittsburgh, PA
“Performance-Rhetoric, Performance-Composition”
Program Chair: Vershawn Ashanti YoungMarch 14–17, 2018
Kansas City, MO
“Languaging, Laboring, and Transforming”
Program Chair: Asao InoueMarch 15–18, 2017
Portland, OR
“Cultivating Capacity, Creating Change”
Program Chair: Carolyn Calhoon-DillahuntApril 6–9, 2016
Houston, TX
“Writing Strategies for Action”
Program Chair: Linda Adler-KassnerMarch 18–21, 2015
Tampa, FL
“Risk and Reward”
Program Chair: Joyce Carter
March 19–22, 2014
Indianapolis, IN
“Open | Source(s), Access, Futures”
Program Chair: Adam BanksMarch 13–16, 2013
Las Vegas, NV
“The Public Work of Composition”
Program Chair: Howard TinbergMarch 21–24, 2012
St. Louis, MO
“Writing Gateways”
Program Chair: Chris AnsonApril 6–9, 2011
Atlanta, GA
“All Our Relations: Contested Space, Contested Knowledge”
Program Chair: Malea PowellMarch 17–20, 2010
Louisville, KY
“The Remix: Revisit, Rethink, Revise, Renew”
Program Chair: Gwendolyn D. PoughMarch 11–14, 2009
San Francisco, CA
“Making Waves”
Program Chair: Marilyn ValentinoApril 2–5, 2008
New Orleans, LA
“Writing Realities, Changing Realities”
Program Chair: Charles BazermanMarch 21–24, 2007
New York, NY
“Representing Identities”
Program Chair: Cheryl GlennMarch 22–25, 2006
Chicago, IL
“Composition in the Center Spaces: Building Community, Culture, Coalitions”
Program Chair: Akua Duku AnokyeMarch 16–19, 2005
San Francisco, CA
“Opening the Golden Gates: Access, Affirmative Action, and Student Success”
Program Chair: Judith WoottenMarch 24–27, 2004
San Antonio, TX
“Making Composition Matter: Students, Citizens, Institutions, Advocacy”
Program Chair: Douglas D. HesseMarch 19–22, 2003
New York, NY
“Rewriting ‘Theme for English B’: Transforming Possibilities”
Program Chair: Kathleen Blake YanceyMarch 20–23, 2002
Chicago, IL
“Connecting the Text and the Street”
Program Chair: Shirley Wilson LoganMarch 14–17, 2001
Denver, CO
“Composing Community”
Program Chair: John LovasApril 12–15, 2000
Minneapolis, MN
“Educating the Imagination: Reimagining Education”
Program Chair: Wendy BishopMarch 24–27, 1999
Atlanta, GA
“Visible Students, Visible Teachers”
Program Chair: Keith GilyardApril 1–4, 1998
Chicago, IL
“Ideas, Historias y Cuentos: Breaking with Precedent”
Program Chair: Victor VillanuevaMarch 12–15, 1997
Phoenix, AZ
“Just Teaching, Just Writing: Reflection and Responsibility”
Program Chair: Cynthia SelfeMarch 27–30, 1996
Milwaukee, WI
“Transcending Boundaries”
Program Chair: Nell Ann PickettMarch 22–25, 1995
Washington, D.C.
“Literacies, Technologies, Responsibilities”
Program Chair: Lester FaigleyMarch 16–19, 1994
Nashville, TN
“Common Concerns, Uncommon realities: Teaching, Research, and Scholarship in a Complex World”
Program Chair: Jacqueline Jones RoysterApril 1–3, 1993
San Diego, CA
“Twentieth Century Problems, Twenty-First Century Solutions: Issues, Answers, Actions”
Program Chair: Lillian Bridwell-BowlesMarch 19–21, 1992
Cincinnati, OH
“Contexts, Communities, and Constraints: Sites of Composing and Communicating”
Program Chair: Anne Ruggles GereMarch 21–23, 1991
Boston, MA
“Times of Trial, Reorientation, Reconstruction: A Fin de Siecle Review/Prophecy”
Program Chair: William W. CookMarch 22–24, 1990
Chicago, IL
“Strengthening Community Through Diversity”
Program Chair: Donald McQuadeMarch 16–18, 1989
Seattle, WA
“Empowering Students and Ourselves in an Interdependent World”
Program Chair: Jane E. PetersonMarch 17–19, 1988
St. Louis, MO
“Language, Self, and Society”
Program Chair: Andrea A. LunsfordMarch 19–21, 1987
Atlanta, GA
The Uses of Literacy: A Writer’s Work In and Out of the Academy”
Program Chair: David BartholomaeMarch 13–15, 1986
New Orleans, LA
“Using the Power of Language to Make the Impossible Possible”
Program Chair: Miriam T. ChaplinMarch 21–23, 1985
Minneapolis, MN
“Making Connections”
Program Chair: Lee OdellMarch 29–31, 1984
New York, NY
“Making Writing the Cornerstone of an Education for Freedom”
Program Chair: Maxine HairstonMarch 17–19, 1983
Detroit, MI
“The Writer’s World(s): Achieving Insight and Impact”
Program Chair: Rosentene B. PurnellMarch 18–20, 1982
San Francisco, CA
“Serving Our Students, Our Public, and Our Profession”
Program Chair: Donald C. StewartMarch 26–28, 1981
Dallas, TX
“Our Profession: Achieving Perspectives for the 1980’s”
Program Chair: James Lee HillMarch 13–15, 1980
Washington, D.C.
“Writing: The Person and the Process”
Program Chair: Lynn Quitman TroykaApril 5–7, 1979
Minneapolis, MN
“Writing: A Cross-Disciplinary Enterprise”
Program Chair: Frank D’AngeloMarch 30–April 1, 1978
Denver, CO
“Excellence in What We Do: Our Attitude Toward Teaching Composition”
Program Chair: William F. IrmscherMarch 31–April 2, 1977
Kansas City, KS
“Two Hundred Plus One: Communicating in the Third American Century”
Program Chair: Vivian I. DavisMarch 25–27, 1976
Philadelphia, PA
“What’s Really Basic? A Bicentennial Review of the Basic Issues of English”
Program Chair: Richard Lloyd-JonesMarch 13–15, 1975
St. Louis, MO
“Untapped Resources”
Program Chair: Marianna W. DavisApril 4–6, 1974
Anaheim, CA
“Hidden Agendas: What Are We Doing When We Do What We Do?”
Program Chair: Lionel R. SharpApril 5–7, 1973
New Orleans, LA
“Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities”
Program Chair: Richard L. LarsonMarch 23–25, 1972
Boston, MA
“Reconsidering Roles: What Are We About?”
Program Chair: James D. BarryMarch 25–27, 1971
Cincinnati, OH
“Coming Together—SOS from the Darkling Plain”March 19–21, 1970
Seattle, WAApril 17–19, 1969
Miami, FLApril 4–6, 1968
Minneapolis, MNApril 6–8, 1967
Louisville, KYMarch 24–26, 1966
Denver, COApril 8–10, 1965
St. Louis, MOMarch 25–28, 1964
New York, NY
“Freshman English: Return to Composition”March 21–24, 1963
Los Angeles, CA
“The Content of English”April 5–7, 1962
Chicago, ILApril 6–8, 1961
Washington, D.C.March 31–April 2, 1960
Cincinnati, OHApril 2–4, 1959
San Francisco, CAMarch 27–29, 1958
Philadelphia, PAMarch 21–23, 1957
Chicago, ILMarch 22–24, 1956
New York, NYMarch 24–26, 1955
Chicago, ILMarch 4–6, 1954
St. Louis, MOMarch 13–14, 1953
Chicago, ILMarch 28–29, 1952
Cleveland, OHMarch 30–31, 1951
Chicago, ILMarch 24–25, 1950
Chicago, IL
