This sneak peek comes courtesy of Melissa Ianetta’s “From the Editor” column in the
Even as the May issue is in your hands鈥攐r on your computer screen鈥攚e鈥檙e finalizing the July issue, which will complete my first official year聽as editor. As I look back, I note that the learning curve has been steep and聽the satisfactions have been immense. Thanks to the authors, reviewers,聽and members of the editorial board who have made these first issues possible.
However, the purpose of this note is to look forward, not back, and to share聽with you future opportunities from College English. More particularly, I鈥檇 like to聽draw your attention to the calls for proposals for upcoming themed and special聽issues of the journal. I鈥檓 excited to announce our first themed issue: 鈥淪cholarly聽Editing: History, Performance, Future,鈥� which will be composed of works that聽examine the role of the editor and the impact of editorial work. You can read a聽full call, including details of the submission and review process, in the announcement聽section at the end of this issue.
You will also find there a call for special issue proposals, to be submitted聽by July 15. I am asking members of the board to provide evaluative opinions of聽both sets of proposals, thus broadening the perspectives that review these issues.
I encourage you to read these calls鈥攁nd to submit your best ideas pitched to聽the intellectual diversity that comprises our board. Any questions on these issues聽can be shared with me at collegeenglishjournal@gmail.com.
And now, to move from the future to the present and the richness of this聽number鈥檚 offerings, you will find much to inspire thinking about our discipline.
In 鈥淭eaching Wikipedia: Appalachian Rhetoric and the Encyclopedic Politics聽of Representation,鈥� Matthew A. Vetter offers an engaging exploration of Wikipedia聽in terms of the ways in which it circulates representation and the pedagogical聽possibilities offered by its conferral of identity. In 鈥淪orority Rhetorics聽as Everyday Epideictic,鈥� Charlotte Hogg helps us understand how sororities聽position prospective members within their ideological traditions, arguing for聽the ways such occasions of the 鈥渆veryday epideictic鈥� invites rhetorical analysis.聽Suzanne Bordelon, in 鈥淟ouise Clappe and The Shirley Letters: Indirect Feminist聽Rhetoric and the Contradictions of Domestic Space,鈥� examines a different聽kind of rhetorical space in a project serendipitously complementary to Hogg鈥檚.聽Finally, Jason Palmeri鈥檚 review, 鈥淒isruptive Queer Narratives in Composition聽and Literacy Studies,鈥� weaves together personal narrative with insightful review聽of three recent texts.
I hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we in the field office at聽University of Delaware have. Right now, we see much to enjoy鈥攁nd much to聽look forward to!
Melissa Ianetta is the Unidel Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Jr. Chair of Writing and Rhetoric and director of the Writing Center at the University of Delaware, and is editor of College English.
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