Landmark College Professor is Founding Co-Editor of New Academic Journal

Landmark College Assistant Professor of Writing Dr. Ryan Ware has co-founded a new academic journal as part of the WAC Clearinghouse, the largest publisher of open access academic texts in the field of writing studies. 

The publication is titled Literate Activity: Perspectives on Textual Practices in the World and seeks to “publish innovative scholarship that reflects the complexities of how people create, use, and act-with texts across lifeworlds,” according to Ware. Ware is collaborating with Dr. Bruce Kovanen of North Dakota State University and Dr. Kevin Roozen of the University of Central Florida on the project. 

Literate Activity will release its first edition in the Spring of 2026 and currently has an open call for submissions for content in the inaugural publication. In speaking to what makes the publication different from others, Ware says that it is “an accessible space that considers ‘scholarship’ widely,” and seeks submissions from across disciplines and standpoints. 

The founding editors of the journal say they are seeking to “demystify the review process, support our authors through the process of publication, and foster exciting transdisciplinary conversations about textual activity.”

Assisting in the efforts of Ware, Kovanen, and Roozen is Landmark College student Talia Katz, who is working as an editorial and research assistant on the project. Ware credits Katz with launching and operating the journals Instagram account (@literateactivity), in addition to “contributing to much of our editorial work.” 

For her own part, Katz says she first became keyed into the field of writing studies and literate activity in a writing seminar she took with Ware, where she was “amazed at the diversity of literate practices I saw within my class.” Katz says that to her, “literate activity means exploring the outward expressions of the human mind,” and that research into the topic represents “the process of cracking the code to how someone thinks and who they are, and everyone who reads that research adds to that web of textual connection.”

Learn more about the journal on the WAC Clearinghouse site, including a call for submissions.