What's New
Chair of ISAWR
After serving as elected Vice Chair for three years, I recently moved up to the position of Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research, which sponsors the popular triennial conference Writing Research Across Borders. The Feb., 2023 conference in Trondheim, Norway, was a huge success, and a volume of essays from the conference is in progress. Find ISAWR at https://www.isawr.org/ The next WRAB conference will take place in Sydney, Australia, in 2026, chaired by Susan Thomas at the University of Sydney. Look for the call for proposals here and elsewhere.
Two Book Awards
My new book, Writing-Enriched Curricula, a collection edited with Pamela Flash that focuses on a departmental model of writing across the curriculum, received an honorable mention at the 2023 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference in Clemson, SC as well as the Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators at its 2023 conference in Reno, Nevada. The book is open-access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/wec/
Seminar in France
In mid-March of 2024, I helped to lead a seminar on mixed-methods research for early-career writing researchers in Lille, France, with Tiane Donahue of Dartmouth College, Magnus Gustafsson of Chalmers University in Sweden, and Theresa Lillis of the Open University (UK). The seminar took place under the auspices of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Writing SIG, and was hosted by the University of Lille. See https://www.earli.org/sig/sig-12-writing for more information.
New Book on Writing & Technology
Co-edited with Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, Ann Devitt, and Antonette Shibani, this recently published volume is a significant handbook on writing and digital technology. Thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation, the book has been made open-access at Springer at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36033-6
Introduction to Latin American collection
Recently I had the pleasure of publishing the introduction, "The Multidimensional Variables of Writing Program Development and Sustainability" (in both Spanish and English) to a new collection of essays about writing programs in Latin America: Centros y Programas en Latinoamérica: Opciones Teóricas y Pedagógicas Para la Enseñanza de la Escritura Disciplinar [The Field of Teaching Disciplinary Writing in Latin America: Trajectories and Future Directions], 2023, xxi-xxxv, edited by Estela Inés Moyano and Margarita Vidal Lizama. The collection is open access at the WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2023. vii-xix: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/la/centros/
Transfer and Multimodality
A new collection edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matt Davis, Lillian Mina, and Ryan Shepherd has just been published by Utah State University Press (Dec. 2023); I had the pleasure of writing the introduction, "Dimensions of Transfer and the Role of Multimodality" (ix-xvii).