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by Bump Halbritter (Editor), Bree Straayer (Editor), Julie Lindquist (Editor)
This second volume of Documentarian Tales features narratives by attendees of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Annual Convention (both virtual and in person). The first collection, Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4C20 Documentarian Tales (2023), was conceived to be a product of the new Documentarian role at the 2020 Convention in Milwaukee. When that meeting was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Documentarian idea became a means for CCCC members to share a common experience at a most unusual time.
As with the earlier collection, the Tales in Recollections from Our Common Places began as responses to Documentarian daily surveys. Taken together, they narrate authors' experiences on the days of the CCCC Convention in 2021, 2022, and 2023, foregrounding contrasts and commonalities between virtual and in-person conferences, and addressing such themes and issues as professional growth and belonging, forms of participation, the professional life of the field, accessibility, and work-life balance.
The essays in this volume resonate with the themes surfaced in the earlier collection and introduce new provocations about the terms of our work in writing studies and the changing landscape of our disciplinary participation, particularly in light of educational shifts occasioned by responses to the pandemic.
Author Biography
Bump Halbritter is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing and former director of first-year writing (FYW) at Michigan State University. His research attends to teaching and learning in FYW and to the integration of audio-visual writing into scenes of college writing and scholarly research and production. Bump's long-term collaboration with Julie Lindquist has yielded many articles and chapters, including their 2013 article, "Time, Lives, and Videotape: Operationalizing Discovery in Scenes of Literacy Sponsorship," which received the Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English. Bump's book, Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers, received the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for 2013. Bump has served on the CCCC Executive Committee and many CCCC working groups. Bump writes, performs, and produces music under the name Hope Junkies with albums released in 2024 and 2026.
Julie Lindquist has taught courses in first-year and professional writing, and graduate courses in rhetorical theory, composition studies, cultural rhetoric, research methods, and writing pedagogy. Her books include A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar, Elements of Literacy, and Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4C20 Documentarian Tales. Her writings on rhetoric, class, literacy, and writing pedagogy have appeared in major journals and in edited collections. Lindquist has coauthored several articles on literacy research, writing pedagogy, and reflective learning with her colleague and writing partner at MSU, Bump Halbritter. Their coauthored piece, "Time, Lives, and Videotape: Operationalizing Discovery in Scenes of Literacy Sponsorship" won the 2013 Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English. Lindquist was elected in 2019 to serve as Assistant Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, was Program Chair for the (planned) 2020 Convention in Milwaukee, WI, and served as Chair of CCCC in 2021. She has twice served as director for the first year writing program at MSU, a program that serves more than 7,000 students annually. Her research and scholarship on class culture, identity, and learning, along with her work in administration and leadership, has always been motivated by questions of educational access for diverse learners.
Bree Straayer is an assistant professor at Michigan State University and the associate director of first-year writing. Her vocational and research interests focus on the intersections of culture, gender, and education. She has several publications and has presented nationally on her research examining the role of religious ideologies in educational trajectories along with her other interests in language learning and writing program administration. Bree's interests are also expressed through her community-based work in the nonprofit sphere, where she was director of a language learning program and helped to bring in over two million dollars in grant funding and significantly increase program participation. When not reading, writing, or working, Bree enjoys spending time traveling, gardening, antiquing, and making all manner of things.
