ASLE-CCCC
"...Ecocomposition is about relationships; it is about the coconstitutive existence of writing and environment; it is about physical environment and constructed environment; it is about the production of written discourse and the relationship of that discourse to the places it encounters."
-- Weisser, Christian R., and Sidney I. Dobrin. "Breaking New Ground in Ecocomposition: An Introduction."
What is ASLE-CCCC?
CCCC stands for the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
The ASLE-CCCC Special Interest Group (SIG) held its first meeting during the CCCC Conference in Atlanta in March, 1999. It was designed to bring together Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) members who have an interest in composition, rhetoric, literacy studies, and the teaching of writing and reading.
The general purposes were twofold:
1. to promote environmental concerns within composition studies,
2. to represent the interests, recognitions, and methods of composition studies within ASLE.
Because of changes to the SIG rules at CCCC meetings, this group is currently inactive. If you are interested in helping to re-form the group or to think creatively about ecocomposition in the profession, please feel free to contact the current ASLE President.
Past ASLE-CCCC SIG meeting topics are listed in the archives link below.
If you want to find out more about the organization please contact Anthony Lioi (alioi [at] juilliard [dot] edu). You may also join our ASLE-CCCC List-serv to receive more information.