Future of Scholarly Writing

Ruth Behar, University of Michigan, USA Michael Billig, Loughborough University, UK Rita Charon, Columbia University, USA Kate Nace Day, Suffolk University, USA Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA Anna Grimshaw, Emory University, USA Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA Ralph Hummel, Retired Scholar, USA Amy Kaminsky, University of Minnesota, USA Susan McClary, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, USA Lisa Ruddick, University of Chicago, USA Naomi Scheman, University of Minnesota, USA Leo Spitzer, Columbia University, USA Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick, UK Camilla Stivers, Cleveland State University, USA Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA

"Representing disciplines across the humanities and social and natural sciences ... the contributors acknowledge the importance of scholarly norms and discuss tensions between compliance and what writers want to say, how they want to say it, audience expectations, and intended outcomes. In addition, the authors explain how they challenge these norms and call for legitimate space to successfully convey the message. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (D. Truty, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016) "This book offers ways to move onward and forward, into the future of academic writing, of writing and thinking in general, and of the kind of work we aim to do as politically engaged intellectuals, scholars, and writers. ... While it is a book about academic writing, it is also very much an academic book and an example of scholarship at its best: it is politically engaged, it inspires, and it calls for further inquiry." (Maria Stehle, Women in German, 2016)

• Introduction; Angelika Bammer and Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres 1. The Work of Writing; Jane Gallop 2. Writers, Authors, and the Extraordinary Ordinary; Naomi Scheman 3. Tribal Rites: Academic-Speak and the Ambiguity of Belonging; Angelika Bammer 4. When Nothing Is Cool; Lisa Ruddick 5. Writing in the Clinic, or What Might Be Expressed; Rita Charon 6. Looking for the Right Path; Paul Stoller 7. Found in the Details: Thoughts About Particulars; Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres 8. The "State" and the "Plantation": Writing Differently; Gyanendra Pandey 9. Stories and the Language of Law; Kate Nace Day 10. "Life has a mind of its own": Public Administration and "The Soloist"; Ralph Hummel & Camilla Stivers 11. Undisciplined Practice: Experimenting with Anthropological Form; Anna Grimshaw 12. Big Words in Small Circles: Bad Writing and the Social Sciences; Michael Billig 13. A Discontinuous Voice; Amy Katz Kaminsky 14. First Person Plural: Notes on Voice and Collaboration; Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 15. Writing about Music - and the Music of Writing; Susan Mcclary 16. The Poetry of It (Writing History); Carolyn Kay Steedman 17. In the Meantime; Ruth Behar