Call for Abstracts

Writing Centers and Disability

Deadline: October 1, 2005

Abstracts (approximately 500 words) for potential contributions are invited for a new edited collection tentatively titled Writing Centers and Disability. This collection will investigate the vital, but often ignored intersection of Writing Center Studies and Disability Studies.

Contributions will ultimately fall into three general categories:

• Research on tutoring writers with disabilities,
• Research and narratives of experience of making the writing center space accessible, and
• First-person accounts, both narrative and theoretical, of the experience of tutoring a disabled person or of being a disabled person who works in or uses a writing center.

We invite both writing center and disabilities studies scholars to participate, and we welcome informal inquiries. We encourage scholars from both fields to read and reference work from the other field.

We are especially interested in contributions focusing on disabilities that have not been written about extensively in writing center literature, such as blindness, mental illness, and conditions that limit mobility and stamina, especially those that may be perceived as invisible disabilities. We are also interested in the concept of passing.

Abstracts should be sent to Rebecca Day Babcock at r.s.day@iup.edu, Sharifa Daniels at sdaniels@sun.ac.za, James Inman at jamesainman@gmail.com, and Beth Rapp Young at byoung@mail.ucf.edu.

Please include full contact information with your abstract.