The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES, publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and, among other topics, preparing the field’s future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs that contextualize, theorize, and reflect on a course’s content and pedagogy. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor, though queries are welcome. Contents Of Composition Studies 54.1 (Spring 2026)Editors’ Introduction: Changing Textual Landscapes by Zachary Beare and Jacob BabbAT A GLANCECritical Data Storytelling by Angela LaflenARTICLESLiteracies and Reflective Rhetorical Moves in the Literacy Narrative Assignment by Thir B. Budhathoki | Writing Entailment: Aligning Assignments, Text Features, and Outcomes by Christiane Donahue and Lynn Foster-Johnson | The Feedback That’s Hardest to Hear: Contract Grading and Student Evaluations of Teaching by Erika Luckert | Making Assessment Useful, or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Assessing Rhetorical Literacy by Kurt Schick, Danielle DeRise, Caroline Prendergast, Jay Varner, and Michael Hickman | Seeking Literacy Justice in the Age of the Machine: Insights from a Six-Year Program Assessment Project by Jennifer Seibel Trainor and John Holland | Empirical Writing Assessment and the Identity Crisis in Science by Michael J. ZerbeCOURSE DESIGNSConfounding Conspiracies: Teaching Critical Thinking in First-Year Composition by Daniel Floyd and Jay S. Arns | WRTG 3020: 'Writing with Music' by Steve LamosWHERE WE ARE: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF QUEER COMPOSITIONQueering Composition after AI by Joshua Barsczewski | Writing Memphis, Writing Williamson: Literacy Narrative as Recovery Practice by Seth E. Davis | 'Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired': A Black Trans Compositionist’s Demand for Action, But She’s Saying It Louder for the Cisters in the Back! by Erin Green | The Horrors Persist, But So Do We: Reading Octavia Bulter in First-Year Writing at the Threshold of a Transformed World by Violet Livingston | On the Matter of Mattering by Timothy Oleksiak | The Queer Compositionist Has Questions: Beginnings, Imaginings, and Futures by Rachel Robinson-ZetzerBOOK REVIEWSTruth Be Told: White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in 'Post-Truth' America, by Laura Elliot Tetreault Reviewed by Prince Bush | Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing: Identity, Process, and Transfer at a Public University, by Laura Wilder Reviewed by Moinak Choudhury | Outcomes of Engaged Education: From Transfer to Transformation, by Linda Flower Reviewed by Anna D’Orazio | Parenting While PhDing: Surviving and Improving the Working Conditions of Graduate Student Parents, edited by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna Morton-Aiken Reviewed by Taylor Riley Geiser | Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Nancy Bou Ayash and Carrie Byars Kilfoil Reviewed by Carina Jiaxing Shi | Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University, by Emily Murphy Cope Reviewed by Liz Thomae | 'I Grew Up in the Church': How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, by Bethany Ober Mannon Reviewed by Joseph Wilson2025 Reviewers
