CALL FOR PAPERS

Thomas R. Watson Conference on

Rhetoric and Composition

Oct. 18-20, 2012 - Louisville, KY

“ECONOMIES OF WRITING”

Organized by the University of Louisville

English department and its

Ph.D. program in Rhetoric and Composition

The ninth biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition solicits proposals that examine the relations between diverse notions of “economy” and “writing” for rhetoric and composition. Avenues for exploration might include:

Writing instruction as a site and medium for the production of racialized, sexualized bodies, desires, consciousness, emotions 

Institutional and disciplinary economies within higher education

Rhetorics of the economy of writing: notions of efficiency, profit, competence, clarity, precision, efficacy, etc.

Problematics of the transnational exchange of composition expertise

Notions of labor and management in composition research and pedagogy

Relations of economic, cultural, social, biological, and language ecologies

Relations between linguistic, physical, intellectual, and emotional labor

Relations of power and authority within specific modes of writing production

Shifts and continuities in notions of authorship, intellectual property, and the commodification of language, writing, and composition skills

Questions of translation in economies of writing

Dominant and alternative economies for the production and distribution of scholarship in rhetoric and composition

Writing and the (re)production of class, professional identities

Keynotes, Featured Speakers and Moderators

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Mar 1, 2012

For more information, visit our website: http://louisville.edu/conference/watson

Email Min-Zhan Lu, conference director: watson@louisville.edu

Or call: (502) 852-1252