Studies in Writing and Rhetoric: A Timeline

Welcome to SWR's timeline.

A timeline tracking the history of and publications of the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) series, including its serving editors. In addition, the timeline includes information on chairs of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).

The SWR Timeline is designed to allow individuals, graduate classes, and SIGs/Caucuses to reflect upon, expand, and understand the meaning and import of the collective history of the field represented by the SWR series.

This is an interactive timeline and we encourage you to contribute to its events. To add an event, please enter "SWREdit" as the secret word in the box at the lower left corner of your screen. Please contact C.C. Hendricks (crhen100@syr.edu) if you'd like to suggest additional categories or have any questions or comments.

In addition to this Timeline, SWR has also recently created an online discussion forum to invite scholars to engage in dialogue about SWR's publications.

As this year marks the 30th anniversary of James Berlin’s Rhetoric and Reality (RR), we are currently looking for individuals and groups to use this forum to offer comments and reflections on Berlin's text. The goal here is not to further canonize or rehearse critiques, but to use the book as a starting point to talk about the future work of the field. If Berlin’s text announced a set of concerns for the 1980’s, what are the primary concerns for today? And how might (or might not) Berlin’s text be useful to such work?

To participate in this forum, visit: http://swreditors.org/interact/community/.

1974 - 1975

Richard L. Larson

Larson serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1974 to December 1975.

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1975 - 1976

Lionel R. Sharp

Sharp serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1975 to December 1976.

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1976 - 1977

Marianna W. Davis

Davis serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1976 to December 1977.

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1977 - 1978

Richard Lloyd-Jones

Lloyd-Jones serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1977 to December 1978. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1978 - 1979

Vivian I. Davis

Davis serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1978 to December 1979. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1979 - 1980

William F. Irmscher

Irmscher serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1979 to December 1980. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1980 - 1981

Frank D'Angelo

D'Angelo serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1980 to December 1981. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1981 - 1982

Lynn Quitman Troyka

Troyka serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1981 to December 1982. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1982 - 1983

James Lee Hill

Hill serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1982 to December 1983. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1983 - 1984

Donald C. Stewart

Stewart serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1983 to December 1984. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1984

SWR is Established

The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) series, established in 1984, aims to influence how writing gets taught at the college level. The methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in the many various fields that inform composition—including rhetoric, communication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse, ranging from studies of individual writers and teachers, to work on classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching.

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1984 - 1997

Standing Committee on SWR Publications

From 1982 to 1997, the Senior Editor served as Chair and Staff Liaison to a five-member Standing Committee on Publications of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. SWR submissions were sent directly to NCTE by prospective authors and then forwarded to the committee for a decision. Approved MSS were sent to Southern Illinois UP, which handled production of the books for CCCC (until 2012, when NCTE assumed production duties for SWR books).

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1984 - 1985

Rosalene Purnell

Purnell serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1984 to December 1985. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1984

Writing Instruction in 19th Century American Colleges

SWR publishes James Berlin's Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges.

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1985 - 1986

Maxine Hairston

Hairston serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1985 to December 1986. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1986 - 1987

Lee Odell

Odell serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1986 to December 1987. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1987 - 1988

Miriam T. Chaplin

Chaplin serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1987 to December 1988. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1987

Rhetoric and Reality

SWR publishes James Berlin's Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985.

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1988 - 1989

David Bartholomae

Bartholomae serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1988 to December 1989. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1989 - 1990

Andrea A. Lunsford

Lunsford serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1989 to December 1990. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1990 - 1991

Jane E. Peterson

Peterson serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1990 to December 1991. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1991 - 1992

Donald McQuade

McQuade serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1991 to December 1992. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1992 - 1993

William W. Cook

William W. Cook serves as CCCC chair.

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1993

Women Writing the Academy

SWR publishes Gesa E. Kirsch's Women Writing the Academy: Audience, Authority, and Transformation.

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1993 - 1994

Anne Ruggles Gere

Gere serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1993 to December 1994. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1993

Gender Influences

SWR publishes Donnalee Rubin's Gender Influences: Reading Student Texts.

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1994 - 1995

Lillian Bridwell-Bowles

Bridwell-Bowles serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1994 to December 1995. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1995 - 1996

Jacqueline Jones Royster

Royster serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1995 to December 1996. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1996 - 1997

Lester Faigley

Faigley serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1996 to December 1997. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1997 - 2007

Robert Brooke

Brooke serves two terms as Field Editor of the SWR series from 1997 to 2007. Brooke is currently a John E. Weaver Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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1997 - 1998

Nell Ann Pickett

Pickett serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1997 to December 1998. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1998 - 1999

Cynthia Selfe

Selfe serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1998 to December 1999. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1999

Victor Villanueva, Jr.

Villanueva serves as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from January 1999 to December 2000. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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1999

The Young Composers

SWR publishes Lucille Schultz's The Young Composers: Composition's Beginnings in Nineteenth-Century Schools.

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1999

Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century

SWR publishes Cynthia Selfe's Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention.

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2000

Keith Gilyard

Gilyard serves as Chair of the 2000 Conference on College Composition and Communication. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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2000 - 2002

Across Property Lines

SWR publishes Candace Spigelman's Across Property Lines: Textual Ownership in Writing Groups.

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2001

Wendy Bishop

Bishop serves as Chair of the 2001 Conference on College Composition and Communication. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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2002

John Lovas

Lovas serves as Chair of the 2002 Conference on College Composition and Communication. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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2003

Shirley Wilson Logan

Logan serves as Chair of the 2003 Conference on College Composition and Communication. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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2003

Language Diversity in the Classroom

SWR publishes Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva's Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice.

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2003

A Communion of Friendship

SWR publishes Beth Daniell's A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery.

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2004

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Yancey serves as Chair of the 2004 Conference on College Composition and Communication. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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2004

Self-Development and College Writing

SWR publishes Nick Tingle's Self-Development and College Writing.

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2004

Personally Speaking

SWR publishes Candace Spigelman's Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse.

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2004

Response to Reform

SWR publishes Margaret Marshall's Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching.

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2004

Multiliteracies for a Digital Age

SWR publishes Stuart Selber's Multiliteracies for a Digital Age.

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2005

Douglas D. Hesse

Hesse serves as Chair of the 2005 Conference on College Composition and Communication. See Duane Roen's edited collection, Views from the Center: CCCC Chair's Addresses, 1977-2005, to read Lloyd-Jones' address.

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2005

Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, Multigenre Texts

SWR publishes Julie Jung's Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy.

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2005

Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom

SWR publishes Zan Goncalves' Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom.

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SWR Publications

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