... all English majors to learn and that we stop seeing it as opposed to close reading. Our study suggests a much closer relationship: the formal observations literary scholars make often take advantage of their knowledge of genre conventions or historical context. It might very well be this tendency...

...: Fischer. Reviews Forum Nachmanovitch’s Free Play as a Context for Experimental Writing Janis Butler Holm Last winter I faced the challenge of teaching a course in experimental writing to a group of very apprehensive college seniors...

...John M. Ulrich English programs like mine face a particular challenge: implementing a manageable assessment process in an institutional context featuring scarce resources, staff reductions, and heavy teaching loads. We believe our portfolio-based process enables us to assess our program’s...

....” College Composition and Communication 50 : 377 -92. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 179 Learning to Write, Program Design, and the Radical Implications of Context The End of Composition Studies...

..., and Collectivity.” Unpublished manuscript. Spivak, Gayatri. 2003 . Death of a Discipline . New York: Columbia University Press. Debt in the Teaching of World Literature: Collaboration in the Context of Uneven Development Tanya Agathocleous and Karin Gosselink debt, n. 1. That which...

...Ben Knights Duke University Press 2007 Strathern, Marilyn, ed. 2000 . Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics, and the Academy . New York: Routledge. A Note on the U.K. Context Ben Knights This note is designed to provide the reader outside...

...Hassan Belhiah Abstract This article seeks to contribute to our understanding of the challenges and opportunities afforded by undergraduate research in the context of changing English departments in international contexts. English has been witnessing unprecedented growth in the Middle East...

... and non-tenure-track appointments. Contexts for Canons Paul Lauter In this essay I want to comment on two phenomena in college teaching today. One has to do with fundamental changes in the structure of staffing — what one might call the “casualization” of the profession...

...Jane Mathison Fife R e v i e w s Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 5, Number 1, © 2005 Duke University Press 157 Changing the Contexts for Documenting Our Teaching Composition, Pedagogy, and the Scholarship of Teaching. Edited...

... Writing Patterns across Written Contexts Staci M. Perryman-Clark In their article “From Language Experience to Classroom Practice: Affirming Linguistic Diversity in Writing Pedagogy,” Kim Lovejoy et al. (2009) identify a prevailing concern for those who struggle to implement linguistic...

...Anne Humpherys This essay describes a graduate course, The Nineteenth-Century Novel in Context, that I developed and taught in fall 2011 at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The essay was developed from an oral presentation that was part of a teaching panel at the Northeast...

... and an emerging understanding of identities are examined in the context of two professional development and administrative contexts: the assessment by faculty of the writing of entering, first-year students and a collegewide, first-year experience (learning-community) initiative. © 2008 by Duke University Press...

...Dana Kinzy; Deborah Minter This essay explores the underlying dynamics that inform postsecondary English teacher development efforts. In particular, it argues for a more expansive understanding of “context” in order to emphasize the inevitability of conflict and the productive potential...

... by allowing the study of a common subject among students hoping to enter a number of different professions after college. Our design leans heavily on concrete knowledge domains—genre knowledge, social knowledge, procedural knowledge—and their application to specific disciplinary or professional contexts...

...Jacqueline Labbe Teaching Letitia Landon in the context of British Romanticism allows us to present her as a central figure within studies of form and content, particularly in how she negotiates national and international cultural and poetic contexts. This essay explores how her work enlarges our...

...Margaret K. Willard-Traub This article theorizes the potential contours and impacts of faculty “resilience” within increasingly corporatized contexts by examining the strategies for resilience and persistence among international, multilingual, and nontraditional students who maneuver among various...

...Gena E. Chandler; Jennifer Sano-Franchini While the term neoliberalism is commonly used to explain libertarian and conservative economic perspectives, its rapidly expanding contexts influence every aspect of our cultural environment, even the contexts of higher education. This article explores how...

... counterpoint to the generic conventions of the spy thriller within the increasingly polarized sociopolitical context of the Indian subcontinent. The film presents an unlikely female protagonist as both the physical agent and the psychological subject of the violence integral to the “action” of an espionage...

... in for linguistics, literary archival studies, creative writing, and writing pedagogy. These examples illustrate how undergraduate research mentorship can prepare graduate students to teach and mentor students using effective methods in various institutional contexts. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press...

... considers how the assignment might be adapted for diverse institutional contexts. In what follows, we outline two of the primary findings from our research: (1) how the autoethnography offered opportunities for students to study personal topics in which they were deeply invested and (2) how the project...