...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...

...Laura J. Beard “Teaching Native Autobiographies as Acts of Narrative Resistance” is written for non-specialists in Native literature who include a Native-authored work in their classes. This article offers strategies to increase our understanding and appreciation of Native literature by opening up...

...Theresa Tinkle Abstract This article reports on an undergraduate course centered on autobiographies written by people who manage mental illnesses. Students learned about neurodiversity from multiple perspectives, examined social and medical models of mental illness, developed interpretive skills...

...Robin Dizard This forum essay explores a collaboration between a teacher and a book. Combining autobiography with teaching notes about a variety of colleges (the writer held adjunct appointments in six colleges in fifteen years before joining the Keene State College faculty), the article claims...

...Teresa Gilliams Gilliams pairs the works of James Weldon Johnson and August Wilson in an interdisciplinary course on the Harlem Renaissance. Gilliams’s essay explores Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as an exemplar of the Harlem Renaissance writer’s need for artistic freedom. In pairing...

...-limits. The present essay contributes a genre-based pedagogy, until now only hinted at by hypertext theorists and not imported into the domain of hypertext by genre theorists. While I focus on creative hypertexts autobiographies and popu- lar genres like soap operas and road trip stories a genre-based...

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... , edited by Frank Otto H. and Pressler Mirjam . New York : Doubleday . Franklin Benjamin . ( 1793 ) 2015 . The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin . New York : Chartwell . Gavison Ruth . 1999 . “ Jewish and Democratic? A Rejoinder to the ‘Ethnic Democracy’ Debate...

... upon old ideas). Therefore, I propose a theory of home page writing that builds off the genre of personal writing (the old, signi- fi ed by genres like autobiography) and appends the work of cyberculture (the new) as a means toward creating an Unheimlich rhetoric. I call this new genre of home page...

... of writing courses, from first-year composition to creative nonfiction and graduate courses in autobiography and composition studies research. The intimate interrelationship of her teaching and her research is reflected in The Essay Canon (2005) a canon whose research informs her recent textbooks including...

... in southern France where I live while teach- ing women s autobiography at a French university. What do you mean write about our lives? my French students ask, looking perplexed and worried when I tell them we will both read and write autobiography. What can we say about ourselves? Anything that interests...

... in southern France where I live while teach- ing women s autobiography at a French university. What do you mean write about our lives? my French students ask, looking perplexed and worried when I tell them we will both read and write autobiography. What can we say about ourselves? Anything that interests...

..., and Disciplines . San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Gornick, Vivian. 2001 . The Situation and the Story . New York: Farrar. Grealy, Lucy. 1994 . Autobiography of a Face . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hall, Michael L. 1989 . “The Emergence of the Essay and the Idea of Discovery.” In Essays on the Essay...

... in southern France where I live while teach- ing women s autobiography at a French university. What do you mean write about our lives? my French students ask, looking perplexed and worried when I tell them we will both read and write autobiography. What can we say about ourselves? Anything that interests...

... in southern France where I live while teach- ing women s autobiography at a French university. What do you mean write about our lives? my French students ask, looking perplexed and worried when I tell them we will both read and write autobiography. What can we say about ourselves? Anything that interests...

... in southern France where I live while teach- ing women s autobiography at a French university. What do you mean write about our lives? my French students ask, looking perplexed and worried when I tell them we will both read and write autobiography. What can we say about ourselves? Anything that interests...

... in southern France where I live while teach- ing women s autobiography at a French university. What do you mean write about our lives? my French students ask, looking perplexed and worried when I tell them we will both read and write autobiography. What can we say about ourselves? Anything that interests...

..., and Disciplines . San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Gornick, Vivian. 2001 . The Situation and the Story . New York: Farrar. Grealy, Lucy. 1994 . Autobiography of a Face . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hall, Michael L. 1989 . “The Emergence of the Essay and the Idea of Discovery.” In Essays on the Essay...

... of these selves firsthand, but it is only in reviewing Booth’s work on the problem of the self, especially in his recent autobiography, My Many Selves (2006) and in an unpublished manuscript, “The Curse of Sincerity,” that I have come to appreciate how deeply Booth himself thought about the selves he...

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