Deadline January 10, 2020
Reflections seeks submissions for Volume 20, Issue 1, Spring 2020—a special issue marking the journal’s 20th anniversary. Reflections was the first journal in the field of composition and rhetoric to provide a venue for publishing research and commentary by scholars and community partners on what was then known as “service learning” and is now more broadly understood as “community-engaged writing and rhetoric.” For this anniversary issue, we seek short scholarly articles, personal, reflective essays, and other contributions to celebrate—as well as critically assess—the history of the journal and the evolving subfield it helped create.
We encourage anyone who has served on the journal’s editorial staff or published in its pages to submit a full-length manuscript or contact us with queries. We also invite new or longtime readers and/or prospective authors to consider the journal’s impact. As always, we invite a variety of genres produced by project participants that reflect the journal’s anniversary. We actively encourage submissions that reflect the labor conditions and the aspirational diversity of our discipline.
Full-length articles should range between 2500 and 4000 words; shorter considerations of the journal’s impact to be published as a textual roundtable should range between 750 to 1500 words. Please contact the editors with queries about contributions that fall out of those ranges. All manuscripts should conform to The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Author-Date System, sixteenth edition. For queries about Vol. 20, Issue 1 or the journal in general, contact coeditors Laurie Grobman and/or Deborah Mutnick at reflections.coeditors@gmail.com. Submit all manuscripts through the journal’s new portal in Open Journal Systems at https://journals.psu.edu/reflections/user.