New Journal Alert: Lucid, a Journal for First-Generation Students
Department: Composition
Post Date: January 6, 2020News Details
Rachael Collins and Scott Lerner, lecturers in the Department of English’s Composition Program, have created LuciD, a journal that caters to undergraduate students who are the first in their families to pursue higher education and/or are first-generation Americans. With its guiding objective to act as a platform for the development of first-gen writing identities, LuciD will feature undergraduate student writing from across UCI.
UCI undergraduate students can submit up to three pieces of work (both written and visual). The journal's inaugural spring issue aligns itself with the UCI Humanities Center’s theme, “Borders and Belonging.” This journal is funded by the Composition Program and UCI Humanities Center.
Please submit here. The Deadline for submissions is February 15.
For more information, see our Mission Statement below or reach out to Rachael Collins (collins2@uci.edu) or Scott Lerner (slerner1@uci.edu).
Sincerely,
Rachael (Editor in Chief) & Scott (Managing Editor)
Mission Statement
LuciD is a journal of first generation student writing published on the website of the English Department’s Composition Program. LuciD provides a public literate space for first gen writers to express their identities and experiences, to take pride in where they come from, and to explore how they are transforming the culture of higher education. As such LuciD’s mission is also deeply pedagogical and closely aligned with the Composition Program’s central educational emphases: to teach our students how to consciously articulate themselves in both writing and speech, to recognize the expectations of situated communications, and to respond with clarity and courage. LuciD, therefore, expresses an interdependent relationship between the Humanities and the rest of the University, and across any of the educational and social institutions traversed by our first gen students. With its guiding objective to act as a platform for the development of first gen writing identities, Lucid will feature student writing from all of the schools at UCI, and thus invite us to think across disciplines, genres, and even writing communities. We think that featuring such writing in this way will help us use the beautiful work of our first-gen students to examine and cross genre borders but also to (re)define “belonging” in a writing community.