Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4c20 Documentarian Tales

A collection of essays and personal narratives about living, writing, teaching, and learning in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. These are real stories from the field of writing and rhetoric, as told by the stories of individuals working within it.

This particular collection of essays was occasioned first by the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) 2020 Conference, and then, later, by the cancellation of it. In its original conception, it was intended to document a conference experience; in its current expression, it has become a means for Documentarians to share a common experience in this uncommon time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This volume is a collection of accounts of the shared experience of disruption in our work lives--which, as it turns out, also teaches us how deeply the terms of our work are implicated in our experiences of home, family, and everyday routines.