Edward J. Comstock is Hurst Senior Lecturer in the College Writing Program in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, DC, where he began teaching in 2006. His research focuses on writing pedagogy and rhetorical theory. Edward’s most recent book Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age (2018), argues that plasticity in contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. Other works explore constructions of power and subjectivity as they relate to writing pedagogy and education more generally

• Introduction: Student Subjectivity Today: How Concerned Should We Be?.- Chapter 1: "School is Making Students Ill":  The New Catastrophic Event of Student Subjectivity Chapter 2: The Wounding Touch and the New Wounded.- Chapter 3: Wounding Woundedness: The Art of Messy Learning.-Chapter 4: Schooling Affect: A Genealogy of Medical Tropes in Writing Pedagogy

Edward J. Comstock is Hurst Senior Lecturer in the College Writing Program in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, DC, where he began teaching in 2006. His research focuses on writing pedagogy and rhetorical theory. Edward’s most recent book Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age (2018), argues that plasticity in contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. Other works explore constructions of power and subjectivity as they relate to writing pedagogy and education more generally

• Introduction: Student Subjectivity Today: How Concerned Should We Be?.- Chapter 1: "School is Making Students Ill":  The New Catastrophic Event of Student Subjectivity Chapter 2: The Wounding Touch and the New Wounded.- Chapter 3: Wounding Woundedness: The Art of Messy Learning.-Chapter 4: Schooling Affect: A Genealogy of Medical Tropes in Writing Pedagogy

Edward J. Comstock is Hurst Senior Lecturer in the College Writing Program in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, DC, where he began teaching in 2006. His research focuses on writing pedagogy and rhetorical theory. Edward’s most recent book Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age (2018), argues that plasticity in contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. Other works explore constructions of power and subjectivity as they relate to writing pedagogy and education more generally

• Introduction: Student Subjectivity Today: How Concerned Should We Be?.- Chapter 1: "School is Making Students Ill":  The New Catastrophic Event of Student Subjectivity Chapter 2: The Wounding Touch and the New Wounded.- Chapter 3: Wounding Woundedness: The Art of Messy Learning.-Chapter 4: Schooling Affect: A Genealogy of Medical Tropes in Writing Pedagogy