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\nComposition Forum 35, Spring 2017  \nGenerating the Field: The Role of Editors in Disciplinary Formation  \nCynthia Selfe, Victor Villanueva, and Steve Parks  \nAbstract: In the following conversation, conducted asynchronously through email, three current and former editors discuss the role of publishing in creating a disciplinary identity. Speaking from the academic (Villanueva), digital (Selfe), and community (Parks), and, often crossing these three categories, the editors discuss how the field has failed to fully embrace the full range of cultural, economic, and gender experiences that have been present in our field since its founding. In doing so, they also note that this absence has continued despite the ability of new publishing technologies to incorporate a wider range of embodied experiences, non-traditional knowledges, and literacy practices.  \nCynthia Selfe, Department of English, Ohio State University  \nExecutive and Founding Co-Editor, Computers and Composition Digital Press  \nVictor Villanueva, English, Washington State University Former Editor, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric  \nSteve Parks, Writing Program, Syracuse University Editor, New City Community Press  \nEditor, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric  \nDr. Cynthia Selfe is a pioneer in digital technologies in composition and rhetoric. Dr. Selfe is the first woman and the first English studies teacher ever to receive the EDUCOM Medal for innovative computer use in higher education. Dr. Selfe is the author of Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention (SIUP 1999); Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives from the United States (with Gail Hawisher, Erlbaum 2004); Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition (with Anne Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, and Geoffrey Sirc); and dozens of other single-or co-authored scholarly articles and edited collections. Dr. Selfe was a Humanities Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University (OSU), where she coordinated the Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition program at OSU and directed the university’s Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) summer institute. Along with Gail Hawisher, she is an executive and founding editor of Computers and Composition Digital Press ([http://ccdigitalpress.org/](http://ccdigitalpress.org/)).  \nDr. Victor Villanueva is a Regents Professor and Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts at Washington State University (WSU) . At WSU, Villanueva has served as Director of Composition, English Department Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of American Studies. Over the years, he has received a number of honors, including the Richard A. Meade Award for Distinguished Research in English Education (1994), the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship in English (1995), Rhetorician of the Year (1999), the Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award (2008), and the disciplines’(rhetoric and composition studies) Exemplar Award (2009) . Dr. Villanueva is the current Director of the Writing Program at WSU and is the former editor of the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series. All of Dr. Villanueva’s efforts center on the connections between language and relations of power, especially racism.  \nDr. Steve Parks is the current Editor of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric ([swreditor.org](swreditor.org)) and one of the founders of Syrians for Truth and Justice ([stj-sy.org](stj-sy.org)) . His early work focused on the Students’ Right to Their Own Language, with a particular emphasis on the need to embed the politics of such a resolution into progressive community partnershipsand publications. This led to his creating New City Community Press (newcitycommunitypress.com) in Philadelphia  \nand Gifford Street Press in Syracuse. 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