As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2020-2021 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. This past year has continued to highlight challenges for justice, safety, teaching, researching, and living in the world, yet it has also provided opportunities for digital rhetoric to explore solutions and larger conversations around these challenges. Our blog carnivals explored how teachers and scholars have been navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s podcast series offered insights, challenges, and celebrations around Black sound. We also saw the beginnings of a new crowd-sourced syllabus…
Author: Danielle Koepke
D'Arcee Neal, Nupoor Ranade, Jathan Day, Jianfen Chen, Sarah Hughes, Danielle Koepke, Kimberly Williams
Danielle Koepke is a second year PhD student in Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has an MA in Rhetoric and Composition, and her academic interests include multimodal composing practices, digital literacies, and feminist theories.
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication (April 7-10), which takes place virtually this year. We are particularly interested in conference reviews pertaining to digital rhetoric, though you are welcome to propose your own session to review. Reviews are published on the DRC website to help facilitate conversations about conference sessions among attendees and others who may have not been present at the conference. If you would like to be a session reviewer for CCCC 2021, please visit this Google Spreadsheet to sign up for a session to review. You…
Acknowledgements We are grateful for each of the contributors of Blog Carnival 18. Thank you for devoting time and energy towards this project during our continued pandemic living. In the CFP for this blog carnival, we invited contributors to reflect on how they saw themselves practicing empathy in their roles as students, researchers, and/or teachers during our sustained experience of academia in Covid times. The entries represent a range of responses to the pandemic and how to show empathy for self and for others in unprecedented times. There are many intersecting overlaps across these contributions. Here, we highlight a couple…
Editors: Jianfen Chen and Danielle Koepke The spread of COVID-19 across the nation and the globe has posed unprecedented challenges to teaching, learning, and researching rhetoric, composition, writing center studies, languages, and communication in institutions of higher education. With social distancing, quarantine, hybrid and virtual teaching and learning becoming part of the new normal, we are being continuously pushed to find new adaptations and create innovative ways of thinking and doing as scholars and researchers. While the pandemic is tearing us apart, empathy could be part of the solutions to generate a trusting and compassionate relationship with one another to…