... that the polemical responses offered by Bloom's detractors validate his claims about the contradictory ways that openness, tolerance, and diversity are pursued in the university. Revisiting this controversy provides an opportunity for considering the ethics of the academic polemic. © 2009 by Duke University Press...

...Donna LeCourt; Anna Rita Napoleone This article examines how working-class bodies perform physically, affectively, and discursively in academic spaces. Through its conversation between a tenured professor and graduate student, the article employs performance theory to highlight how disruptive...

... of ‘They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing .”’ Pedagogy 8.2 : 369 – 73 . Birkenstein Cathy . 2010 . “ Reconsiderations: We Got the Wrong Gal: The ‘Bad’ Academic Writing of Judith Butler .” College English 72.3 : 269 – 83 . Booth Wayne C. 1979 . Critical...

...A. W. Strouse The norms of professionalization, viewed through a queer lens, are seen as a means to regulate affect and to banish queer forms of pleasure—much to the detriment of the academic profession. A queer, medievalist approach may help us with the project of building happier doctoral student...

...Geneviève Brassard Duke University Press 2006 Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities . By Gregory Colón Semenza. New York: Palgrave, 2005. Graff, Gerald. 2004 . Clueless in Academe . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press...

...Laura M. Grow © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing . By Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Reviews Roundtable They Say, I Say: The Moves...

...Molly R. Flaspohler Duke University Press 2007 Personally Speaking: Experience as Evidence in Academic Discourse . By Candace Spigelman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004. Burton, Vicki Tolar, and Scott A. Chadwick. 2000 . Investigating the Practices...

...Jennifer L. Holberg; Marcy Taylor Duke University Press 2009 Bérubé, Michael. 2006 . What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education . New York: W. W. Norton. Bowen, Roger. 2008 . “A Faustian Bargain for Academic Freedom.” Chronicle...

...Jaclyn M. Wells; Lars Söderlund This article considers how graduate educators can best prepare their students for writing and publishing academic scholarship, drawing on interviews performed by the coauthors with twenty published scholars from rhetoric and composition. The article also includes...

...Johanna Schmertz Our academic identities are constructed performatively through writing. In this article, I use the concept of citationality to examine two literacy autobiographies: one by a published writer and one written by a student of mine. My reading of these narratives exposes a connection...

... . “College Composition:Initiation into the Academic Discourse Community.” In Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness , 105 -28. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ———. 1992b . Introduction to Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness , 3 -30. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press...

...Alisa Russell This article proposes that writing instructors can present genre innovation as a strategy for asserting class (and other) identities within academic discourses. Drawing on sample student innovations of integrating emotions, expanding modes, and reconstructing audiences...

...Caitlin Kelly This article argues that to help students join academic conversations we should look for opportunities to integrate multimedia texts into the classroom, both as artifacts to study and as models for assignments. In contrast to traditional assignments like response papers, projects...

...Michael Murphy The report “Education in the Balance” represents a significant new acknowledgment of the centrality of teaching faculty to the academic project on the part of professional organizations in English studies. David Bartholomae is right to worry that the emergence of positions...

... the pedagogical possibilities of her precarity by operating a policy of radical honesty with her students, both inside and outside of the classroom. As a Victorianist, she petitioned to teach texts, including Jane Eyre , that allowed her to explore contingent academic labor with her students and compare...

.... This essay links conversations about teaching in the pandemic to those about gender, race, class, and disability, and to academic labor and faculty fights for better pay and working conditions, shared governance, and academic freedom. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press...

... how the development of two key strategies—engaging students through blended academic and pop-culture approaches and guiding their recognition and critical response to discursive power structures—transformed the author's pedagogical approach into one that is more student-centric and practically focused...

... published and planned MLA and ADE reports—specifically, on the evaluation of scholarship for tenure and promotion, and on the master's degree—further illuminate the inter-relations between graduate education and general education staffing practices. MLA (in its “Academic Workforce Advocacy Kit...

... practices of exaggeration also discernable in Facebook profiles. Students and teacher note features from Facebook pages that suggest tendencies to be popular versus being an individual or signs of addiction to the networking tool. This assignment that brings academic analysis to bear on non-academic...

...Catherine Gubernatis Dannen This article argues that popular sports media (such as websites, TV shows, and tweets) can be used in the freshman composition classroom to introduce students to academic argument and to encourage them to reimagine their own writing styles. Because sportswriters...