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Volume 57, Spring 2026
Advocating for Archives—Advocating for Us All: An Interview with Wendy Hayden
Continue reading →: Advocating for Archives—Advocating for Us All: An Interview with Wendy HaydenSarah E. S. Carter Wendy Hayden, Associate Professor of English and Director of First-Year Composition at Hunter College, CUNY, is well-known in composition studies for her advocacy of archival research and for forging links between rhetoric and feminist studies. Her most cited article, “‘Gifts’ of the Archives: A Pedagogy for…
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Volume 55, Spring 2025
Volume 55 | Spring 2025
Continue reading →: Volume 55 | Spring 2025Click to view the table of contents.
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
From the Editors: Volume 56
Continue reading →: From the Editors: Volume 56This is a time of extreme change. While we know that the world and our lives are defined by constant flux, it is hard to attribute the changes we see every day to the natural ebb and flow of the universe. Even so, it is how we acknowledge and, ultimately,…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Foreword
Continue reading →: ForewordBy Andrea A. Lunsford. I’m grateful to the editors of Composition Forum, Aja Y. Martinez, and the authors of this symposium for the opportunity to read and reflect on the essays included here, since doing so led me to do some very memorable time traveling. And specifically to the mid…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
“Traitor as Teacher”: Interest Convergence in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Continue reading →: “Traitor as Teacher”: Interest Convergence in Rhetoric and Writing StudiesBy Natalie Shellenberger. This bibliographic essay explores the use of Derrick Bell’s concept of interest convergence in the fields of composition, rhetoric, and writing studies since his definition of the principle in 1980. After a brief overview of the concept of interest convergence and its implications to the fields of…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Review of Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith’s The Origin of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement
Continue reading →: Review of Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith’s The Origin of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a MovementBy Ruby Mendoza and Erin Green. In 2025, during a political climate where civil liberties and freedoms are under attack, a monumental book was published titled The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas that Created a Movement. Authors Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith released this…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Counterstory and Genre Praxis in the First-Year Writing Classroom: A Prospective Analysis
Continue reading →: Counterstory and Genre Praxis in the First-Year Writing Classroom: A Prospective AnalysisBy Allison Gross and Jessica Lee. In the Fall of 2022, we set out with a handful of our colleagues in the English department to create an anti-racist writing curriculum. Of particular importance to us was crafting this curriculum for our specific context, not just as a two-year college, but…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Review of Mentorship/Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, and Futures, edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles N. Lesh
Continue reading →: Review of Mentorship/Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, and Futures, edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles N. LeshBy Molly Ryan. Mentorship in the field of writing studies is broadly understood to be an essential facet of disciplinary matriculation, but its features are sometimes slippery to define. Indeed, mentorship is difficult to concisely describe and more challenging still to enact in practice. When it does take root, however,…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Critical Race Reading Theory
Continue reading →: Critical Race Reading TheoryBy Paul Corrigan. The term Critical Race Reading Theory (CRRT) identifies and amplifies a previously unnamed body of work in writing studies: several disparate sets of scholarly texts sharing a project of leveraging reading toward antiracist aims. CRRT comprises the disciplinary resources available to us to counter the damaging reductive…
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Volume 56, Fall 2025
Review of Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lilian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd
Continue reading →: Review of Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lilian W. Mina, and Ryan P. ShepherdBy Taylor J. Wyatt. Any discussion about multimodal composition inevitably invites the question: “What counts as writing?” This question of what “counts” often reveals an underlying assumption that multimodality lacks adequate academic rigor. “What counts as writing” leads to further considerations, such as identifying pedagogical strategies to help students expand…
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When Composition Forum migrated to the WordPress platform in 2025, search functionality between the old and new sites had to be divided: the Search bar at the top of this page will only search the new volumes (55 and after); to search older issues, go to the Archives (vols. 14.2–54) page and use the blue “Search the Archives” box below the title there.