...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...

...Sheri Rysdam A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies . Watkins James Ray Jr . Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press , 2009 . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited FairTest: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing . 2010...

... vols. New York: Norton. Ferguson, Moira. 1985 . First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578–1799 . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Linkin, Harriet Kramer. 2001 . “How It Is:Teaching Women's Poetry in British Romanticism Classes.” Pedagogy 1 : 91 -115. Lonsdale, Roger. 1989...

... Studies As a Disciplinary Discourse Community ”. Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin. A Method for Teaching Invention in the Gateway Literature Class Joanna Wolfe In the spring of 2000, following the completion of a Ph.D. specializing in rhetoric and composition, I taught my first...

.... During our postdraft workshop my students and I discussed this issue and the questions it raised about authority and evidence. At our next class meeting, a postdoctoral fellow who specializes in twentieth- century decorative arts (and who had studied with Prown) spoke with my stu...

...Michael Lund; Leigha McReynolds Attention to the similarities between an academic class and a magazine illuminates how periodicity affects the reading and learning experience. Focusing on the subscribers' power in shaping the continuing life of a periodical, the teaching methodology presented here...

... Figure 1. Hierarchy make us worry about what we aren’t but lets us focus on what we are; it defines what we do. Variation 2. “Well, they said you was high class, but that was just a line” One way to wrestle with the issue of putting nonfiction in its place is to exam- ine a map of English as a...

...Nancy Mack © 2006 Duke University Press 2006 Adair, Vivyan C. 2001 . “Poverty and the (Broken) Promise of Higher Education.” Harvard Educational Review 71 : 217 -39. Adair, Vivyan C., and Sandra L. Dahlberg. 2001 . “Cutting Class in the Multicultural Literature Classroom...

... social construction. In keeping with the ideological themes of many of the series’s titles,4 O’Malley’s work argues for the importance of late-eighteenth-century children’s literature in the dissemination of middle-class ideology and its refl ection of changing notions of childhood, many of which...

...Marshall Gregory Duke University Press 2006 Com ment a r y From Shakespeare on the Page to Shakespeare on the Stage: What I Learned about Teaching in Acting Class Marshall Gregory Why I Signed Up for an Acting Class In the spring...

...Christie Launius Duke University Press 2006 Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America . Edited by Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Dews, Carlos L., and Carolyn Leste Law. 1995 . This...

... Faculty.” College English 53 : 647 -60. Childers, Mary, and bell hooks. 1990 . “A Conversation about Race and Class.” In Conflicts in Feminism , ed. Mariane Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller, 60 -81. New York: Routledge. Comfort, Juanita Rogers. 2000 . “Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers...

... the Humanities Increasing the Value of Our Classes while Supporting Our Futures Sheila T. Cavanagh When I was asked to contribute this essay, the economic crisis was just begin- ning to cast its shadow over U.S. higher education. Since then, my thinking about the current status of...

... Periodical Series Web site, narrowing the search years from 1840 to 1849, the decade before the story was published, and searching for newspaper and magazine articles that contain words like orangutan, dwarff, immolation, or all three. So last semester, when students in my American Realism class...

...Harriet Kramer Linkin PED 1.1-07 Linkin 11/13/00 2:36 PM Page 91 How It Is: Teaching Women’s Poetry in British Romanticism Classes Harriet Kramer Linkin What I can say about my experience teaching Romantic women writers is that every...

...Bev Hogue Why would an English professor enroll in an upper-level biology class? This article describes an experiment in interdisciplinarity: an English professor takes a class titled Scientific Imaging in order to enhance her teaching of nature writing. The author outlines thirteen specific...

...Ann Evans Most of my students arrive in my required freshman writing class full of ideas but lacking the mastery over language needed to express them. Introducing core linguistic concepts can sharpen their writing skills by illustrating how language works, and by heightening their awareness of the...

...Bunkong Tuon In this article, the author discusses his experiences teaching a class on the Vietnam War, a controversial subject that divided a nation along generational, class, and racial lines. He argues that learning takes place in the encounter of differences — where students consider...

... because of the intricate scaffolding I create that requires close interaction outside of class with me, with one or two peer mentors, and with small groups of other students in the class, and that is actively supported by the library, which creates a special “Joyce room” whenever I offer my course. This...

...Nils Clausson Although Orwell's essays—particularly “Shooting an Elephant”—are used in freshman composition classes as stylistic models of clarity for student to imitate, this practice is pedagogically unsound because Orwell's essays are examples of the contemplative essay, whose aims are very...