This article offers both a theoretical underpinning and a case study of practice as exhibits of a more democratic community engagement praxis for rhetoric and composition educators. The case study featured in the article suggests re-positioning the importance of collaborative and democratic engagement as the cornerstone of successful community engagement work. While the case is… Continue reading Inception to Implementation: Feminist Community Engagement via Service-Learning by Johanna Phelps-Hillen

This essay offers new ways of understanding the connection between literary studies and community engagement by focusing not just on the content of literary study, but on one of the central methods. I argue that the practice of “close reading” a literary text—Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” in particular—can illustrate the integral relationship between a… Continue reading Literary Methods and Community Engagement: The Case of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” by Emad Mirmotahari

Scholarship in community writing and service-learning has called attention to the lack of community partner voices in the assessments of writing partnerships. This article foregrounds those missing perspectives by reporting on the consequences of a community literacy program, Writing for Change, from the perspective of the high school youth involved. Analysis of high school student… Continue reading What Changes When We “Write for Change?”: Considering the Consequences of a High School-University Writing Partnership by Heather Lindemann & Justin Lohr

Reflections currently seeks submissions for Volume 19, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Reflections publishes scholarly research articles (18-30 pages); brief profiles of community-based writing and civic engagement organizations, partnerships, programs aimed at disseminating information and sharing models from which other faculty, scholars, and administrators can benefit; brief project/course profiles of community-based writing and civic engagement that are not developed… Continue reading Call for Submissions: Volume 19, Issue 2, Fall 2019

Coeditors Laurie Grobman and Deborah Mutnick seek submissions for the Fall 2018 volume of Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning. Continuing a nearly 20-year history of leading writing and rhetoric’s scholarly and theoretical study of service learning, public rhetoric, community writing, civic writing, and community literacy, the journal publishes wide-ranging… Continue reading Call for Submissions Fall 2018 (Closed)