Since 1991, the CCCC Feminist Workshop has been held on the Wednesday prior to the conference. Our goal in this section is to provide a repository/archive of the prior workshops, to build the historical record of the feminist work undertaken within the organization.
Year and Theme with Links to Documents
2023: "Doing Hope in Desperate Times," Chicago, IL
2022: "The Promises and Perils of Higher Education: Our Discipline’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Linguistic Justice (originally scheduled for Chicago, IL, moved online)
2021: "We Are All Writing Teachers*: Returning to a Common Place" (originally scheduled for Spokane, WA, moved online)
2020: "Considering Our Commonplaces" (CCCC conference cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, scheduled for Milwaukee, WI)
2019: “Living Feminist Lives: Materialities, Methodologies, and Practices,” Pittsburgh, PA
2018: "Feminist Workshop: Feminist Rhetorics of Resistance and Transformation," Kansas City, MO
2017: "Feminist Workshop: Intersectionality within Writing Programs and Practices," Portland, OR
2016: "Feminist Workshop: Action through Care," Houston, TX
2015: "Feminist Workshop: Teaching, Service, and the Material Conditions of Labor," Tampa FL
2014: "Blurring Boundaries: Opening Rhetorical Spaces," Indianapolis, IN
2013: "Why Feminisms Still Matter in the 21st Century: Mentoring, Community, Collaboration, and Feminist Agency in Interdisciplinary Feminist Discourse," Las Vegas, NV
2012: "Gateways, Gates, and Gatekeeping: Mentoring and Diversity as a Feminist Future," St. Louis, MO.
2011: "20th Anniversary Feminist Workshop Retrospective: The History and Future of a Space and its Knowledges," Atlanta GA
2010: "Feminist Intersectionality: Confronting Identity(ies), Censorship, and Action," Louisville, KY.
2009: "Feminist Workshop," San Francisco, CA
2008: "(Post) Institutionalized Feminism: Defining the “F-word," New Orleans, LA
2007: "What Is the State of Feminism?" New York, NY
2006; "Composition in Feminist Center Spaces: Feminist Composition Instructors Building Community, Culture, Coalitions," Chicago, IL
2005: "The Other “F” Word Revisited: Affirmative Action, Privileged and Marginalized Feminisms, Student and Instructor Successes," San Francisco, CA
2004: "FEMINISM? WOMANISM? GENDER STUDIES? WHERE ARE WE NOW AND HOW DO WE MATTER?" San Antonio, TX
2003: "Feminist Narratives of Connection and Displacement: Painful Transformations," New York, NY
2002: "Versions of Reality: Textual Intersections between Feminine/Feminist Discourse (s) and the Street," Chicago, IL
2001: "Composing and Complicating Community through Truth-Telling," Denver, CO
2000: "Imagining Equity: Strategies for Realizing Changes for Women in the Academy," Minneapolis, MN
1999: "Making Visible the Invisible: Mentoring, Teaching, and Scholarship," Atlanta, GA
1998: :"Narrating Feminisms: Stories and Scholarships," Chicago, IL
1997: "Not Just Personal, Not Just Professional: Feminists Reflecting on Feminists' Responsibilities," Phoenix, AZ
1996: "Feminists Dismantling Boundaries: Collective Action, Coalition Building, and Collaboration," Milwaukee, WI
1995: "Women in the Academy: Can a Feminist Agenda Transform the Illusion of Equity into Reality" Washington DC
1994: "Conflicts With/in Academic Feminisms: Negotiating Diversity, Negotiating Hierarchy," Nashville, TN
1993: "Twentieth-Century Problems, Twenty-First-Century Solutions: Feminism(s) in the Twenty-First Century," San Diego, CA
1992: "Building from Community: Feminist Perspectives in Composition," Cincinnati, OH
1991: "Reconsidering Composition Studies from a Feminist Perspective: Teaching Publishing, Research, and Theory," Boston, MA