I was elected to the executive committee of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) Literacy Studies Forum<\/a> in 2015, and I served as secretary for two years and then as chair leading up to the January 2018 convention. The executive committee was responsible for organizing all conference panels sponsored by the forum, both guaranteed and with competitive review, and managing nominations for annual elections for the forum leadership and for an MLA delegate. At the January 2018 convention, I was invited to chair the MLA plenary session \u201cThe Matter of Writing<\/a>,\u201d which brought together highly influential scholars in writing studies \u201cto share key concepts, theories, movements, and agendas of the discipline<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since\n2010, I have also served as a member of the executive\ncommittee and the travel grant committee of the Computers and Writing Graduate Research\nNetwork<\/a> (GRN).\nThe GRN offers a full-day, pre-conference event at the annual Computers and\nWriting (C&W) conference, inviting participants to share in-process work\n(from conceptualization to publication) and receive feedback from experienced\nscholars in the field. From 2010-2016, I also served as coordinator of Ride2CW<\/a>, a fundraiser for the GRN Travel Grant Awards, which provides\nfinancial assistance for graduate students and non-tenure-track faculty who\nattend the GRN and C&W.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Service to the Profession I was elected to the executive committee of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) Literacy Studies Forum in 2015, and I served as secretary for two years and then as chair leading up to the January 2018 convention. The executive committee was responsible for organizing all … <\/p>\n<\/h4>\n\n\n\n