...Marielle Risse The article discusses the necessary compromises inherent in choosing interesting, authentic, and appropriate texts for Middle Eastern classrooms. With nine years’ experience teaching literature in the Arabian Peninsula, Risse argues that the choice of texts and the methods...

... for their book: to challenge the “Harvard narrative,” which, they claim, places the origin of “composition” at Harvard and other elite Eastern colleges; to offer several alternative “microhistories” from various institutional sites, and to document, interpret, and interrogate specific archival holdings...

... Bruce . 2008 . Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past . New York : Palgrave Press . Daily Eastern News . 1961 . “ Seymour to Lecture Roundtable Group ,” February 1 . Daily Eastern News . 2010a . “ Douglas Hall More than a Name ,” November 17 , www.dennews.com/opinion...

... 2005 363 W. Douglas Baker is assistant professor of English education at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches courses in elementary and secondary English methods. He is a codirector of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project and the coordinator of an annual conference for new teachers...

... 2005 363 W. Douglas Baker is assistant professor of English education at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches courses in elementary and secondary English methods. He is a codirector of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project and the coordinator of an annual conference for new teachers...

... of American literature at Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism (2013) and his essays on US literature, culture, and intellectual history have appeared in journals such as American Literary His- tory, American Literature...

... place. That dialogue was about America: what it meant to us and what it meant to others. The dialogue was more wide-ranging on some campuses than on oth- ers. Accompanying it were deeper investigations of international policy and Middle Eastern cultures and religions, as well as analyses of propaganda...

... Institute on the Teaching of Writing. Her research interests include writing and cognitive development. Hal Blythe (hal.blythe@eku.edu) is a Foundation Professor of English and codirector of the Teaching and Learning Center at Eastern Kentucky Univer- sity. He has coauthored (with Charlie Sweet...

... encountered. For example, before we read anything about Appalachia, the most I did to clarify the region's boundaries was to say that many people apply the term Appalachia to the mountainous part of the eastern United States, and I gave this minimalist description only after an international student asked...

... Eastern University, Penn- sylvania. Her current book project, Material Matters: Paratextual Bodies in Nineteenth- Century Indigenous Book History, theorizes the material rela- tionships between books and bodies to claim the book itself as a form of embodied power relations. Her most recent publication...

...- lutionary biology, anthropology, political science, and Near Eastern studies. At its deepest level, it reveals the complex ways that writing is implicated and used in different fields. Throughout, the volume reveals ways that strategi- cally designed sequences of assignments can deepen students...

... professor and assistant coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. She teaches first-year and upper-level writing, pedagogy for preservice teachers, and language, writing, and pedagogy for graduate students. Gail E. Hawisher is professor of English and founding director...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Index to Volume 13 Commentary    Ulrich,  John M. | English Program Assessment and the Institutional Context   3 Risse, Marielle | Who Are You Calling “Coddled “Cloistered Virtue” and Choosing Literary Texts in a Middle Eastern...

... composition pedagogies prepare students for public rhetoric. Christopher Hanlon is assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois Uni- versity, where he teaches courses in American literature and literary theory. His writing has appeared in New Literary History, Exquisite Corpse, AFT On-Campus, Journal X...

... of short stories by Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God (2001). The novel, though a twentieth-­century development in the region, has been adopted whole-­heartedly and with great success by many Arab and other Middle Eastern writers. However, Webb’s recommended reading suf- fers...

... history, business history, and the history of popular music and directs the MA program in liberal studies. At the CUNY Graduate Center he teaches modern British history and supervises doctoral students working in that field. Melissa Ames is associate professor at Eastern Illinois University...

... 387 of manuscript and early-­print witnesses as well as a detailed primer on Scots, the language in which Henryson wrote. This initiation into the historical, lexical, and phonetic aspects of the language of eastern Scotland will be a welcome aid in empowering students to work directly...

..., including Chinese, Bulgarian, Polish, Italian, and Spanish. He has been presi- 208  pedagogy dent of both the Eastern Economic Association and History of Economics Society and has been on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including Journal of Economic Perspectives and the Journal...

... of Empire and Joe Snader s (2000) Caught between Worlds. An overtly transatlantic approach to the period would also pressure scholars of early modern British literature to become better informed about the roles that authors now classified as American played on the eastern shore of the Atlantic...

... Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Panopticon Tara Robbins Fee When I rst graduated from college, I lived across the street from the defunct Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The building’s design, revolution- ary for its time and modeled on Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, featured...