Wednesday, March 4
These workshops require a separate registration and fee. Register here.
Morning Workshops
9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Writing Programs
MW.1 Assessment Artifacts Unpacked: A Collaborative Charrette for Writing Assessment Practitioners
Sponsored by the CCCC Writing Assessment Special Interest Group
This workshop supports participants in reimagining assessment practices by workshopping artifacts from their local contexts. Using the National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment’s assignment charrette heuristic, attendees will participate in guided feedback conversations on assessment artifacts and leave with concrete strategies for further work.
Workshop Leaders: Jennifer Burke Reifman, San Diego State University
Tricia Serviss, University of California Davis
Stacy Wittstock, Marist University
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
MW.2 Community Writing Mentorship Workshop
Sponsored by the CCCC Coalition for Community Writing
This workshop offers peer-peer mentoring and feedback to attendees at any level of experience with research design, relevant scholarship, project evaluation, job and tenure evaluation strategies, ethics of community work, and more. This session is led by a diverse group of prominent, engaged scholars of community and public writing.
Workshop Leaders: Paul Feigenbaum, University at Buffalo
Veronica House, Boston College
Mohammed Iddrisu
Tobi Jacobi, Colorado State University
Beverly Moss, Ohio State University/Bread Loaf
Lauren Rosenberg, The University of Texas at El Paso
Facilitators: Adrienne Jankens, Wayne State University
Elaine Richardson, The Ohio State University
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
MW.3 Friction across the Process: A Pedagogy of AI-Assisted Struggle in First-Year Writing
This interactive workshop introduces a pedagogy of productive friction, where AI prompts deeper thinking at key stages of writing. Grounded in Process Theory and the AI Paradox, participants explore scaffolded activities that help students refine inquiry, assert interpretive control, and develop structural reasoning through semi-Socratic revision.
Workshop Leader: Eugenia Novokshanova, Georgia State University-Perimeter College
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
MW.4 Intellectual Renewal: A Reflective Community Workshop on Unrealized Projects and Pedagogies
Reflection is a key part of writing studies. While prioritized in student learning, it is an implicit practice where dedicated space and time to reflect remain scarce. We offer participants space to revisit work that requires intellectual renewal, through collective revitalization, community building, and dedicated time centering conversation, reflection, and writing.
Workshop Leaders: Devon Fitzgerald, Winthrop University
Heather Listhartke, Winthrop University
Information Literacy and Technology
MW.5 Learning through Experience: Applying the Community of Inquiry Framework to Online/Digital Peer Review in Writing Studies
Sponsored by the CCCC Online Writing Instruction Standing Group
Discover the potential of the community of inquiry framework in this hands-on workshop based on The Community of Inquiry Framework in Writing Studies: Designing for Learning with Peer Review! Explore how teaching, social, and cognitive presences can energize your online or digital peer review practices. Collaborate with OWI experts, build your own CoI, and connect with a vibrant mentoring group.
Standing Group or Caucus Chair: Kirsten Schwartz, San José State University
Workshop Leaders: Jessie Borgman, Arizona State University
Jennifer Cunningham, Kent State University
Kevin E. DePew, Old Dominion University
Carrie Dickinson, Wichita State University
Ariel M. Goldenthal, George Mason University
Lyra Hilliard, University of Maryland
Sarah M. Lacy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Casey McArdle, Michigan State University
Mary Lourdes Silva, Ithaca College
Jason Snart, College of Dupage
Mary Stewart, California State University San Marcos
Natalie Stillman-Webb, University of Utah
Sean Tingle, Arizona State University
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
MW.6 Organizing Responses to Attacks on Academic Freedom and Professional Autonomy
In this workshop, participants will learn strategies to strengthen academic freedom and professional autonomy on the job, such as designing a campaign and recruiting, organizing, and mobilizing people to action. Each participant will leave the workshop with plans for organizing responses to defend academic freedom and professional autonomy at their institution.
Workshop Leaders: Bethany Hellwig, University of Cincinnati
Seth Kahn, West Chester University
Bruce Kovanen, North Dakota State University
Amy Lynch-Biniek, Kutztown University
Jennifer Grouling Snider, Ball State University
First-Year Writing
MW.7 Pedagogues as Procedural Rhetors: (Re)Shaping the Composition Classroom Experience
This workshop invites pedagogues to reframe their role in the writing and composition classroom as that of a procedural rhetor—that is, of one who imparts messages specifically through the procedures and processes they model for students.
Workshop Leader: Shannon Lodoen, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
MW.8 Practicing Well-Being through Writing
This workshop will introduce participants to practices designed to support well-being while writing, including meditation, journaling, and gentle movement. The broad aim is twofold: first, to expose participants to well-being practices that they can introduce into their own writing lives, and second, to encourage them to consider how they might integrate these practices into their teaching.
Workshop Leader: Christopher Basgier, Auburn University
Presenter: Katharine Brown, Auburn University
Facilitator: Mincey Jones, Auburn University
Inclusion and Access
MW.9 Reclaiming Our Time: Basic Writing and the Challenge of Speed
Sponsored by the CCCC Council on Basic Writing
In this half-day writing workshop, participants will engage recent conversations and research on accelerated learning. Noting some of the complications that have emerged after three decades of implementation, the workshop will hold space for the sharing of strategies and approaches for program development, maintenance, and sustainability.
Workshop Leaders: James Dunn, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Barbara Gleason, City College of New York, CUNY
Nicole Hancock, Southwestern Illinois College
Rachel Ihara, Kingsborough Community College
Darin Jensen, Salt Lake Community College
Leigh Jonaitis, Bergen Community College
William Lalicker, West Chester University
Jack Morales, Pace University
Hope Parisi, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Lynn Reid, Fairleigh Dickinson University
RAsheda Young, Rutgers University
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
MW.10 Writing Specialists as Grant Writers: Concrete Strategies for Making Your Scholarly Projects Fundable in These Challenging Times
Our scholarship in writing studies needs monetary support to reach its potential. In response to the current political climate and pending cuts to traditional funding sources, this workshop helps participants learn the conventions, expectations, and options for writing persuasive grant proposals, moving from “interesting” ideas to the rhetorical appeals that make a project fundable.
Workshop Leaders: John Dunn, Eastern Michigan University
Maisha Ostergren, Eastern Michigan University
Afternoon Workshops
1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
AW.1 Articulating Our Work as Leadership on the Job Market
This workshop offers graduate students and early career faculty a starting point for articulating their work as leadership on the job market. Our time together will focus on concrete strategies for using leadership as a frame in application materials, initial interviews, campus visits, and job offer negotiations.
Workshop Leader: Charles McMartin, Florida State University
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
AW.2 Community, Care, and Collaboration in Prison Literacies and Pedagogies
Sponsored by the CCCC Prison Literacies + Pedagogies Standing Group
The goals of this workshop are to share our work; reflect on what we are building toward; and support one another’s aims through resource-, strategy-, and materials-sharing.
Standing Group or Caucus Chair: Cory Spice Holding, University of Pittsburgh
Presenters: Kimberly Drake, Scripps College
Nidhi Gandhi
Peter Huk, University of California Santa Barbara
Tobi Jacobi, Colorado State University
Jenn Patel
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
AW.3 Designing Community-Classroom Collaboration through Service-Learning Component in First-Year Composition Pedagogy: Challenges and Opportunities
In this workshop, a coordinator for a community engaged learning (CEL) component within a first-year composition (FYC) program and a graduate student who taught the CEL course at a Hispanic-serving border institution, by sharing their innovative and success stories of service-learning innovations, invite attendees to draft a service-learning component to transform their FYC program and pedagogy.
Workshop Leaders: Purna Chandra Bhusal, The University of Texas at El Paso
Maria Maier, The University of Texas at El Paso
Language, Literacy, and Culture
AW.4 Disrupting, Innovating, and Re-Situating the Conversation about Global and Non-Western Rhetorics in the US-based Writing Classroom
Sponsored by the CCCC Global & Non/Western Rhetorics Standing Group
This workshop will focus on practical strategies and resources to effectively incorporate global and non-western rhetorical perspectives into US-based writing classrooms.
Workshop Leaders: Moushumi Biswas, Virginia State University
Tarez Graban, Florida State University
Maria Prikhodko
Presenters: Moushumi Biswas, Virginia State University
Uma Krishnan, Kent State University
Eda Özyesilpinar, Illinois State University
Maria Prikhodko
Hua Zhu, University of Utah
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
AW.5 Editing without Editors: What Faculty Can Learn from Professional Editors to Improve Collaborative Feedback with Colleagues
This workshop supports faculty in developing editorial judgment, practicing feedback strategies, and using GenAI as a simulated writing partner. Drawing on editorial theory, WAC research, and publishing studies, we’ll practice draft/manuscript assessment and appropriate feedback strategies, building sustainable and humane practices for faculty self- and peer-editing.
Workshop Leaders: Heidi Nobles, University of Virginia
Sarah Jane O’Brien, Sarah Jane O’Brien Editing
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
AW.6 Harnessing AI to Enhance Writing Instruction: Facilitating Effective Practice with Feedback
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping educational practices, particularly in English writing instruction. This interactive workshop showcases practical ways AI applications can enhance writing instruction. Attendees will leave equipped with actionable strategies for leveraging AI, ultimately enriching writing instruction and cultivating dynamic, forward-thinking educational environments.
Workshop Leader: Randall Davies, Brigham Young University
Presenters: Tammy Lamm, Brigham Young University
Holly Wood, Brigham Young University
Inclusion and Access
AW.7 NNESWIs’ Conversations on Teaching and Research with Writing, about Writing, and for Writing
Sponsored by the CCCC NNESWI Standing Group
This workshop shares NNESWIs’ conversations on teaching, writing, research, and personal experiences. Through two thematic roundtables grounded in theory, lived experience, and empirical inquiry, presenters explore the professional strengths that NNESWIs bring to writing instruction, as well as the personal dimensions of emotion, identity, and well-being that inform and sustain their work.
Standing Group or Caucus Chair: Ming Fang, Florida International University
Presenters: Emad Hakim, Illinois State University
Xuan Jiang
Xinqiang Li
Joseph Mayaki, University of Utah
Lan Wang-Hiles, West Virginia State University
Ruilan Zhao, Florida International University
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
AW.8 Shared Labor with Students: Modeling Transparent Practices in Curriculum Co-Design
Sponsored by the CCCC Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy Standing Group
This panel explores how to expand a faculty peer-review model, the charrette, to include students in co-designing assignments and assessments. Grounded in working-class values and critical pedagogy, this process fosters transparency, agency, and community. Panelists will share research, artifacts, and hands-on strategies for collaborative, reflective, and inclusive curriculum design.
Workshop Leader: Bruce Martin, Lone Star College-North Harris
Writing Programs
AW.9 You Don’t Have to Be an AI Expert: WPAs Shaping Campus Conversations about Writing with AI
During this workshop, WPAs develop strategies to initiate campus-wide conversations about AI & WID/WAC. Two WPAs share their experiences leading a year-long seminar with faculty from diverse fields, modeling activities that resulted in the most productive shifts in writing pedagogy. Participants will leave with pedagogical principles, concrete resources, and hands-on practice.
Workshop Leaders: Carol Hayes, The George Washington University
Phyllis Ryder, The George Washington University
Language, Literacy, and Culture
AW.10 With Liberty and Justice for All: Multi- and Trans- Linguistic Advocacy and Activism
Sponsored by the CCCC Second Language Writing Standing Group
This year’s reinvented workshop forefronts interactive engagement, multidirectional mentorship, and realistic strategies for multi/translingual justice. Projects-in-progress from multiple career statuses emphasize methodological approaches for data-driven activism. Hands-on roundtables develop easily implementable applications for classroom and community action. Come practice praxis with us!
Workshop Leader: Analeigh Horton, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Presenters: Hidy Basta, Seattle University
Islam Farag, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ghada Gherwash
Shao-wei Huang, Northeastern University
Brooke Schreiber, Baruch College, CUNY
Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College
Lingyao Shu, University of Toronto
Jingjing Xing, University of Toronto
Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Northeastern University
Yuan Zhao, University of Louisville
Zhaozhe Wang, University of Toronto
All-Day Workshops
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
W.1 Embracing the Global with Conference and Conversation
Sponsored by the CCCC International Researchers Consortium
Through a full-day series of discussions, 39 international colleagues (32 studies) along with workshop registrants meet to conference in the discipline of writing research and development within an inclusive international framework. Participants choose among each other’s texts to read in advance and to discuss in small groups during the workshop, enabling deep, sustained international exchange.
Standing Group or Caucus Chairs: Tiane Donahue, Dartmouth
Magnus Gustafsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Workshop Leaders: Sunghee Ahn, Temple University, Japan Campus
Habiba Akter, North Dakota State University
Saurabh Anand, University of Georgia
Lisa Arnold, North Dakota State University
Purna Chandra Bhusal, The University of Texas at El Paso
Elena Canovo, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Tyler Carter, University of Virginia
Isabel Cuevas, Autonomous University of Madrid
Nuria Castells Gomez, Universitat de Barcelona – España
Kayla Heglas, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Maki Ho, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
Bochra Houbad, Université Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, France
Mahvesh Khan, National Institute of Science and Technology
Ananta Khanal, The University of Texas at El Paso
Julie Kolgjini, Rochester Institute of Technology/RIT Kosovo (Prishtina)
Adriana Laputkova, University of Presov
Valerie Lemke, University Duisburg-Essen
Nattaporn Luangpipat, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Inas Mahfouz, American University of Kuwait
Abderrahim Mamad, EMSI (École Marocaine des Sciences de l’Ingénieur)
Charles Mansfield, Dialogue HE
Federico Navarro, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
Halle Neiderman, American University of Beirut
Lady Yohanna Villabona Osorio, Fundación Universitaria del Area Andina
Havva Zorluel Ozer, Syracuse University
Sushil Paudel, St. Xavier’s College, Maitighar, Kathmandu
Anselma Widha Prihandita, University of Washington
Tzipora Rakedzon, Technion
Madina Sanatbekova, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ghada Seifeddine, Purdue University
Mafruha Shifat, The Ohio State University
Ignacio Munoz Silva, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Susmita Davi Trisha, North Dakota State University
Rene Venegas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Ruth Villalón, Universidad de Cantabria – España
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
W.2 Feminist Workshop: Food as Intersectional Feminist Work, Resistance, Hope, and Community
Sponsored by the CCCC Feminist Caucus
The feminist workshop constellates intersectional feminist approaches to food pedagogy, research, and community partnerships. The workshop will be organized into three segments. The first will be a series of speakers. The second will be a Q&A panel. The third will be a roundtable discussion where all speakers join participants to workshop their works in progress.
Workshop Leaders: Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday, University of Minnesota
Consuelo Salas, San Diego State University
Presenters: Steven Alvarez
Ashley Beardsley, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Jennifer Cognard Black, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Ronisha Browdy
Abby Dubisar, Iowa State University
Kelli Gill, Montana State University
Melissa Goldthwaite, Saint Joseph’s University
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Saint Joseph’s University
Nabila Hijazi
Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, Colgate University
Emiliya Mailyan, Middle Tennessee State University
Aurora Matzke, Cal Poly Pamona
Eileen Schell, Syracuse University
Pritisha Shrestha, Syracuse University
Jainab Tabassum, North Dakota State University
Karen Tellez-Trujillo, Cal Poly Pomona
Dianna Winslow, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
W.3 Rage Against the (Literacy) Machine: Embodiment, DIY Ethics, and Handcrafted Pedagogies in the Age of AI
As we grapple with the effects of generative AI, climate change, and mental health crises, we suggest incorporating handicraft and a DIY ethos into writing instruction. Workshop participants will explore handcrafted pedagogies, first as students doing hands-on activities and then as educators designing their own assignments, curricula, and approaches to assessment.
Workshop Leaders: Susan Naomi Bernstein, Queens College, CUNY
Karen Deaver, The College of New Jersey
Megan Heise, Utah Tech University
Danielle Koupf, Wake Forest University
Jason Luther
Kristin Prins, Cal Poly Pomona
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
W.4 So You Say You Need (Empirical) Transfer Research? A Workshop on Research Design and Cross-Institutional Connection
This workshop introduces empirical research methods with a focus on writing transfer. In today’s politically charged climate, demonstrating disciplinary expertise and program effectiveness is more critical than ever. Participants will leave with a potential research topic, a clearer understanding of how to begin their inquiry, and connections to a supportive network of collaborators.
Workshop Leaders: Sonja L. Andrus, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
Dylan Dryer
Rebecca Nowacek, Marquette University
Kara Taczak, University of Central Florida
Elizabeth Wardle, Miami University
Presenter: Laura Aull, University of Michigan
Saturday Workshops
2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Creative Writing and Publishing
SW.1 “Now You Must Write Your Own”: Creative Nonfiction Writing in Community
Sponsored by the CCCC Creative Nonfiction Writing Standing Group
This interactive workshop offers dedicated time for attendees to write creatively about their own lives and the knowledge embedded there. Experienced teachers of writing present a series of short, guided prompts; attendees write and then converse in small groups. Participants leave with early drafts for four nonfiction pieces along with ideas for translating prompts for their own classes.
Presenters: Maryam Alikhani
Leonora Anyango
Pamela Baker, University of Central Florida
Sandra Cordoba, Queens College, CUNY
Tony DeGenaro
LewEllyn Hallett, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Diantha Hopkins, Brigham Young University-Idaho
Libby Falk Jones
Patti Miller
Samuel Stinson, Minot State University
Melissa Yang, Emory University
Christy Zink, George Washington University
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
SW.2 Addressing Generative AI Literacy in Writing Courses
Sponsored by the CCCC Becoming a Social Justice Educator Special Interest Group
This workshop offers strategies to design AI-literate writing assignments that promote critical thinking, inclusivity, and language justice. Attendees will explore ways to address equity gaps in AI literacy and gain practical tools for creating AI-integrated, equity-focused writing courses.
Standing Group or Caucus Chair: Aparna Sinha, Cal Poly Solano
Workshop Leader: Kendon Kurzer, University of California Davis
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
SW.3 Capturing Community Conversations: An Audio Storytelling Workshop
Sponsored by the CCCC Sound Studies and Writing Collective
This workshop invites participants to compose and record audio narratives of our academic stories. Participants will develop skills in writing for audio, recording the voice, and considering the rhetorical force of sound. All experience levels and abilities are welcome. By working together, participants will support each other and continue developing our growing sonic rhetoric community.
Workshop Leaders: Kati Ahern, SUNY, Cortland
Harley Ferris, University of Findlay
Steven Hammer, Saint Joseph’s University
Stephanie Parker, Rice University
Shankar Paudel, The University of Texas at El Paso
Kyle Stedman, Rockford University
Jonathan Stone, University of Utah
Information Literacy and Technology
SW.4 Developing Critical AI Literacy: Definitions, Frameworks, and Classroom Practices
This workshop defines critical literacy through shared frameworks, introduces ethical GenAI practices and prompt engineering, and supports participants in creating individualized GenAI integration to develop students’ critical AI literacy.
Workshop Leader: Paul Shovlin, Ohio University
Presenters: Sara Abdelrahman, Ohio University
Erin Morgenstern, Ohio University
Megan Russell, Ohio University
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
SW.5 From Draft to Acceptance: A Hands-on, How-to Workshop on Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals
The editors of Teaching English in the Two-Year College, College English, and College Composition and Communication propose a half-day Saturday afternoon workshop for PhD students, early career faculty, and scholars engaging in new areas of research. Participants will bring a manuscript to work on throughout five interactive mini-presentations and five longer work sessions.
Presenters: Matthew Davis, UMass Boston
Darin Jensen, Salt Lake Community College
Jim Nugent, Oakland University
Lori Ostergaard, Oakland University
Kara Taczak, University of Central Florida
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
SW.6 Leveraging Creative Design Tools to Tell the Story of Your Teaching Philosophy
Embrace the creative spirit of your teaching by using technology to remediate your teaching philosophy statement as an engaging graphic or video that articulates and makes visible the connections driving your teaching narrative.
Workshop Leader: Gabrielle Stecher, Indiana University Bloomington
Presenter: Miranda Rodak
Language, Literacy, and Culture
SW.7 Play Matters: Games and/as Writing Assignments
Sponsored by the CCCC Council for Play and Game Studies
While often treated as trivial, games are powerful modes of learning and rhetorical action. In this workshop, facilitators will share exercises designed to help participants craft assignments that integrate games into their courses. Such assignments are useful for teaching not only rhetoric but also cultural literacies, audience awareness, problem-solving, and collective action.
Workshop Leader: Rebekah Shultz Colby, University of Denver
Presenters: Richard Colby
Sarah Dwyer, Texas A&M University, San Antonio
Matt Hill, University of Denver
Sheila McQuaid
David Riche
Writing Centers (including Writing and Speaking Centers)
SW.8 Supporting the Growth of Graduate Writers in the Writing Center
In this workshop, participants will explore how they might support graduate writers in a writing center context. Participants will view portions of the co-created film series, Supporting the Growth of Graduate Writers: A Film (2022) by Talinn Phillips and Rachael Ryerson, and then respond to those scenes through both large- and small-group discussions, freewriting, and role-playing.
Workshop Leaders: Talinn Phillips, Ohio University
Rachael Ryerson, Eastern Illinois University
