Month: October 2018

FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed publication concerning working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty in college composition and communication. It is published twice annually (alternately in CCC and TETYC) and is sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faculty and scholars from all academic positions are welcome to contribute.

Fall 2023
Volume 27, Number 1

Spring 2023
Volume 26, Number 2

Fall 2022
Volume 26, Number 1

Spring 2022
Volume 25, Number 2

Fall 2021
Volume 25, Number 1

Spring 2021
Volume 24, Number 2

Fall 2020
Volume 24, Number 1

Spring 2020
Volume 23, Number 2

Fall 2019
Volume 23, Number 1

Spring 2019
Volume 22, Number 2

Fall 2018
Volume 22, Number 1

Spring 2018
Volume 21, Number 2

Fall 2017
Volume 21, Number 1

Spring 2017
Volume 20, Number 2

Fall 2016
Volume 20, Number 1

Spring 2016
Volume 19, Number 2

Fall 2015
Volume 19, Number 1

Spring 2015
Volume 18, Number 2
Fall 2014
Volume 18, Number 1

Spring 2014
Volume 17, Number 2

Fall 2013
Volume 17, Number 1

Spring 2013
Volume 16, Number 2

Fall 2012
Volume 16, Number 1

Spring 2012
Volume 15, Number 2

Fall 2011
Volume 15, Number 1

Spring 2011
Volume 14, Number 2

Fall 2010
Volume 14, Number 1

Spring 2010
Volume 13, Number 2

Fall 2009
Volume 13, Number 1

Spring 2009
Volume 12, Number 2

Fall 2008
Volume 12, Number 1

Spring 2008
Volume 11, Number 2

Fall 2007
Volume 11, Number 1

Spring 2007
Volume 10, Number 2

Fall 2006
Volume 10, Number 1

Spring 2006
Volume 9, Number 2

Fall 2005
Volume 9, Number 1

Spring 2005
Volume 8, Number 2

Fall 2004
Volume 8, Number 1

Spring 2004
Volume 7, Number 2

Fall 2003
Volume 7, Number 1

Spring 2003
Volume 6, Number 2

Fall 2002
Volume 6, Number 1

Spring 2002
Volume 5 Number 2

Fall 2001
Volume 5, Number 1

Fall 2000
Volume 4, Number 1

Spring 2000
Volume 3, Number 2

Fall 1999
Volume 3, Number 1

Winter 1999
Volume 2, Number 2

Fall 1998
Volume 2, Number 1

Winter 1998
Volume 1, Number 1

Submission deadline: January 17, 2020
Note: Submissions will not be returned.

The editor of FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty seeks articles exploring contingent faculty activism.

Nationwide, we have seen a surge of activism in response to the continued corporatization of education–high school teachers walking out in Virginia and California, graduate students unionizing, and adjunct faculty organizing in Florida and North Carolina. This special issue is inspired by this latest surge in action. Composition and English studies has significant scholarship dedicated to documenting and theorizing labor problems and conditions. This special issue concerns what happens next.

Recent anthologies like Composition in the Age of Austerity (2016), Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor & Action in English Composition (2017), and Labored: The State(ment) and Future Work in Composition (2017) do some of this work. The editorial board of Forum invites authors, especially contingent, non-tenure-track, and adjunct faculty in English studies, to contribute to this growing body of scholarship. We are interested in movements, actions, and policies small and large, concerning single departments or entire systems. Where possible, pieces should be framed by or connect to the work of writing and English department faculty.

Writers may approach the theme in a variety of ways, including but not limited to the following:

• Where has contingent faculty action or activism worked, and in what contexts? What made these initiatives successful? What was learned through these successes?
• Where has contingent faculty activism not worked, and in what contexts? What caused these initiatives to fail? What was learned through these failures?
• How might our disciplinary knowledge in Composition, Rhetoric, and English studies best be employed in our activism?
• How do geographic location, state laws, and institution type affect progress in contingent faculty activism?
• What possibilities remain for contingent faculty activism in various contexts?

Due to FORUM’s space limitations, essays should be between 1,500 and 2,700 words. While authors should reference current professional/scholarly discussions, extensive literature reviews are not required. Submissions will go through peer review. For further information please contact Amy Lynch-Biniek at lynchbin@kutztown.edu.

Submit your work electronically to lynchbin@kutztown.edu. Put the words “FORUM article” in your subject line. Submissions should include the following information:

• your name
• your title(s)
• your institution(s)
• home address and phone number; institutional address(es) and phone number(s)
• if applicable, venue(s) where submission was first published or presented previously

Thank you for your interest!

FORUM Editor: Amy Lynch-Biniek

FORUM Editorial Board: Natalie Dorfeld, Steve Fox, Jes Philbrook

Editor
Trace Daniels-Lerberg
trace.daniels@utah.edu

Editorial Board
Nona Brown, University of Utah
Peggy Kulesz, University of Texas at Arlington
Brian Whaley, Utah Valley University

Production Editor
Tom Tiller, NCTE

Permissions
permissions@ncte.org

Director of Publications
Colin Murcray, NCTE

FORUM Homepage

Forum welcomes you to submit essays related to the teaching, working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. Faculty and scholars from all academic positions are welcome to contribute. Of special interest are research, analyses, and strategies grounded in local contexts, given that labor conditions and the needs of contingent faculty vary greatly with geography, institutional settings, and personal circumstances.

Essays should address theoretical and/or disciplinary debates. They will go through the standard peer review and revision process. For further information please contact the Forum editor at Kimberly_Bain@pba.edu.

Submit your work electronically to Forum by emailing Kimberly_Bain@pba.edu. Put the words “FORUM article” in your subject line. Submissions should include the following information:

• your name
• your title(s)
• your institution(s)
• home address and phone number; institutional address(es) and phone number(s)
• if applicable, venue(s) where submission was first published or presented previously