The proposal deadlines for CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) and ISHR (International Society for the History of Rhetoric) are within a week of each other, and they are coming up f a s t. My proposed panels just--just--came together. I'm going to propose brand new work for both of them, on animals in the history of rhetoric.
For CCCC, we are going to coalesce around past educational practices, and for ISHR, around performance and theater. For both, I'll likely be looking at ancient fable assignments, particularly the request that students write in the "voices" of animals. My preliminary research question is: what's that about?
But hopefully that question will be refined as I work.
