Community Listening

Jenn Fishman

Jenn Fishman is associate professor of English, cofounder and chief capacitator of the Writing Innovation Symposium, and codirector of the Norman H. Ott Memorial Writing Center at Marquette University. She is a recipient of the Richard Braddock Award, and her publications include The Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, The Research Exchange Index, and special issues of CCC Online, Peitho, and Community Literacy Journal.

Lauren Rosenberg

Lauren Rosenberg is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the English department at the University of Texas at El Paso where she directs the first-year composition program, a recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2022-2023 Writing Program Certificate of Excellence. Much of her writing and research is in the subfield of community literacy. She is the author of The Desire for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners and numerous articles and book chapters that focus on the literate lives of adult learners. These include a co-authored essay with Stephanie L. Kerschbaum “Entanglements of Literacy Studies and Disability Studies,” which won the 2021 Richard C. Ohmann Outstand Article in College English Award. Together with Jenn Fishman, she guest edited a 2018 special issue of Community Literacy Journal where the idea of community listening was launched.

Romeo García

Romeo García is assistant professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah. He is author of There Is No Making It Out: Stories-So-Far and the Possibilities of New Stories and coeditor of Community Listening: Stories, Hauntings, Possibilities and Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise, Unsettling Archival Research, and Pluriversal Literacies, and his interdisciplinary research appears in College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Across the Disciplines, and Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture.