Megan Busch impacting English discipline through Professional Journal

Although she won’t be listed on the masthead until February 2025, Dr. Megan Busch ’10 is already hard at work on the coming issue as the managing editor of the National Council of Teachers of English’s  College Composition and Communication.

Dr. Scott Yarbrough, vice president for academic compliance, institutional effectiveness, and accreditation and one of Busch’s former undergraduate professors, said, “College Composition and Communication is the number one professional journal for composition studies in the U.S. and is a huge deal. It is a serious academic coup for Dr. Busch.”

Busch remains in her full-time position as an English professor and chair of the CSU English Department.

She said, “Though we—as professors—often want to separate out research, service, and teaching as three distinct activities, they’re very intertwined. We cannot teach well without knowing our disciplines and fields; we know and learn our disciplines and fields through ongoing research and service; our classroom time with students often inspires our research and motivates us to serve further. I believe that professors thrive professionally when these three aspects of scholarly life support one another.”

 She said working as the managing editor at College Composition and Communication allows her to deeply engage with current scholarship that moves the conversations in the discipline forward. In turn, this work influences her own pedagogical practice and service as chairperson of the department. 

 Busch describes herself as an organizer. She and co-editors, Matt Davis at UMass Boston and Kara Taczak at the University of Central Florida, inherited production systems for the journal that they felt didn’t work smoothly. She said, “I’m looking forward to creating new systems that mimic those that we’ve been using for the past five years at Composition Studies and implementing them on a larger scale for College Composition and Communication.”

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