Writing against the Curriculum

Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom

AvRandi Gray Kristensen,Ryan M. Claycomb

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an "Introduction to Writing" course and a subsequent selection of writing-intensive courses housed within academic departments, thus simultaneously offering opportunities to subvert disciplinary knowledge production in the earlier course, even as they reaffirm those divisions in their later requirements. Written by administrators, faculty, and librarians at public and private institutions, who teach traditional and online introductory and advanced writing classes, the essays in Writing against the Curriculum argue that these introductory composition classrooms make excellent spaces to question disciplinarity through the study of rhetoric, with an emphasis on critical thinking and curricular flexibility, before students experience disciplinary enforcement most intensely in the advanced courses. Thus, this collection intervenes in current discourses of theory and practice in the related fields of composition and cultural studies because simultaneous attention to both fields enables both the activist enactment of cultural studies' theoretical ambitions and the interrogation of the theoretical and political implications of composition practices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-11-05
Mått:162 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739128008

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Randi Gray Kristensen is assistant professor of university writing at The George Washington University.Ryan Claycomb is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University.

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Writing against the Curriculum makes a significant and timely contribution to critical conversations about the place and status of the fields/areas of composition, rhetoric, and cultural studies. This collection is especially timely given substantial institutional pressures to rationalize writing, inquiry, and pedagogy into commodifiable and assessable forms; and, by demands to professionalize and package these fields as 'disciplines.' While Kristensen and Claycomb accurately refer to their collection as "border writing" (in Giroux's sense of the term), the text also has the critical, creative, and resistant energy of an affinity group-struggling within the nexus of classrooms, academic institutions, and neoliberalism. Writing against the Curriculum is a must read for students and faculty devoted to, in the words of Kristensen and Claycomb, "making space for the unruly, the resistant, and the radical" in composition, rhetoric, and cultural studies.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing against the CurriculumPart 2 Part I. What is the Writing for?Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Cultural Studies, Rhetorical Studies, and Composition: Toward an Anti-Disciplinary NexusChapter 4 Chapter 3. Subjugated Knowledges and De-disciplinarity in a Cultural Studies PedagogyChapter 5 Chapter 4. Interventions at the Intersections: An Analysis of Public Writing and Student WritingPart 6 Part II. Shifting SchemasChapter 7 Chapter 5. Writing is against Discipline: Three CoursesChapter 8 Chapter 6. The Brake of Reflection: Slowing Social Process in the Critical WID ClassroomChapter 9 Chapter 7. Location, Location, Location: The Radical Potential of Web-Intensive Writing Programs to Challenge Disciplinary BoundariesChapter 10 Chapter 8. Discipline and IndulgencePart 11 Part III. Writing across the (Anti)DisciplinesChapter 12 Chapter 9. "Only Connect": Doing Dickens, Cultural Studies, and Anti-Disciplinarity in the University Literature ClassroomChapter 13 Chapter 10. From Things Fall Apart to Freedom Dreams: Black Literature in the Multicultural Composition ClassroomChapter 14 Chapter 11. Performing/Teaching/Writing: Performance Studies in the Critical Composition Classroom