Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly!
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This gives a whole different mood to all of us wearing those APA lanyards at CCCC....
#TeamRhetoric, I am putting together a Cs roundtable about the experiences of "Pandemic PhDs" in our field. Here's my CFP -- I am officially inviting paper proposals! If you would, please circulate it to scholars who might be interested in participating.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ME (should be grading): What if I made a playlist of major pieces of classical music written in 1926, 100 years ago?
[reads Wikipedia]
But could I add music from 1826?
[more Wikipedia]
Is there...is there a "Music in 1726" page too?
[yes, mwah ha, gobble]
"Music in 1626"? omg yes
[burp]
The earth, lit up brightly and in high definition, with aurorae near both poles.
Good goddamn I love space.
Taken by the Artemis II crew.
Oh, that's what I needed, thanks, now I can write all the LORs and grade all the things, whew
raise your hand if you are too gullible and your mental health too fragile for April fools 🖐️
And it wouldn't exist without our amazing creative partners whose work is featured throughout: Ames Hawkins, Kati Fargo Ahern, Janine Butler, Michael J. Faris, Moe Folk, Jen Michaels, Crystal VanKooten, & Josephine Walwema.
...all while asking them to reflect over and over about their creative and intellectual processes. That's this book, with a lot of unique looks behind the corner of how professional writing and audio production happens—and why creative-critical work like this matters.
It's a fun, digital, sound-filled, weird collection that I love so much. Imagine if you sat a bunch of smart people down, recorded their conversation about sound studies and professional writing, and then asked them and other smart people to remix those recordings into something new...
A hand holding an old-fashioned telephone is sticking out of a hole in a bright yellow wall. Over it, the text reads "Can I ask a question?" A Dialog about Sonic Rhetorics, Professional Writing, and Creative-Critical Scholarship, edited by Benjamin Lauren & Kyle D. Stedman
I'm excited to announce a new publication! With Ben Lauren, I co-edited a collection called Can I Ask a Question? A Dialog About Sonic Rhetoric, Professional Writing, Creative-Critical Scholarship, and Process. It's online free at manifold.as.uky.edu/projects/can...
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.
The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.
Link to the full resolution below.
Every 9 months I pick up a copy of North and South and think, "I would really enjoy this," and my wife says, "You would really enjoy this," and then I put it down and read something else, what have I done
Cover of orange conference program. Orange background, drawing of a black rocket shooting diagonally from bottom left to upper right.
#4c16: Houston. The best conference art I've ever seen, hung noticeably on every podium, like we were in a retro future world. cccc.ncte.org/cccc/review/...
Also it was humid.
If anyone at #4c26 is going to #L13, "Reading (Aloud) about Reading: An Experiment in Creating Accessible Academic Audio Texts," let me know what you learn! Can't be there but super curious about how it goes!
Collage art with magazine cutouts (little heads, drawing of cheeseburger and fries), a map of Long Island, and purple construction paper
This is called "So Kati Likes Horror Movies." Thanks for the fun and food, Stitch n Spin!! #4c26
And a MAP COLLECTION?! Y'all, I wasn't ready for this library.
Large windows show a city scape from 10 stories up, and indoor space shows 3 green, comfy chairs
Plus, the Stokes building has 10th-floor views, filled with comfy seats, books to browse, and informational plaques about the buildings you can see from up here. I'm freaking out it's so cool.
Long hallway in a classical library, with wooden tables, a painted ceiling, 2 levels of shelving, windows, and display cases
Hoping others at #4c26 will discover the beauty and wonder of the public library nearby. Especially excellent if you love Robin Hood, international chess sets, Superman. Special collections area is a museum, and the building is priceless.
Navy background with prominent microphone, and lots of text: "CAPTURING COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: an audio storytelling workshop / Saturday, March 7, 2026, 2:00-5:00 p.m., Convention Center, Room 6, FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE, Hosted by the Sound Stiudies and Writing Collective
If you're hanging around #4c26 to the end, please join the Sound Studies & Writing Collective for a free Saturday workshop on audio storytelling from 2-5 p.m.
All are welcome, including BEGINNER-beginners. We'll walk you through recording a brief story of your own and editing in music.
WE'RE FUN.
Oh, that's the chair's address I needed. Listening to our students' music, their selves. Oh, yes. #4c26
I'm noticing that during the opening session at #4c26, my emotions and thoughts are being enlarged already, as I'm called to attend to the broader world of our field, beyond my little world on campus.
In writing, that doesn't sound very profound. But in my chest, my belly, it feels more so.
So glad we got to hear the scholars for the dream introduce themselves in their own voices, taking up the space they earned up front. Still a couple awkward moments, but at least it wasn't the MOST awkward part of the whole opening session, as it sometimes (usually?) is. #4c26
Apple and Sandwich on a plate, with bag of chips and instant coffee behind it
YOU: Since you're a full professor, Kyle, I bet you'll pay huge prices and stand in long lines to buy lunch at #4c26, right?
ME: lol no. #lunchpackinglife
It's hard for me not to have a little jolt of anger every time I stumble, trying to name what this little snippet of text actually is.
Congratulations to Alexis McGee whose book FROM BLUES TO BEYONCÉ has won the 2026 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, presented by the @cfshrc.bsky.social
#WinnerWednesday #4C26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc42spn6
#BlackFeminism #SoundStudies #RhetoricAndComposition
I forget which 90s song nestled deep in my memory includes the line, "Right ON, right on!" (probably many), but I heard it silently play in my ears when I read this.
PREORDERS available now - Digital Literacies for Human Connection: 25 Ways to Engage Students in People-Centered Digital Practices. @mettalrose.bsky.social @ambuck.bsky.social, Rich Shivener, and authors of 25 chapters have pour our heart and soul into this book. Check it out at #4C26!
Pretty sure it was Tori Amos, To Venus and Back, maybe the only CD I remember waiting in line for at a release party when it came out the same day as a new NIN album, my first year of college, what is time?
It finally happened: I was listening to a CD and felt a twitch in my arm to reach out and tap "like" in response to a particularly powerful moment.