... Reclaiming Claims: What English Students Want from English Profs Abram Van Engen So you like therapy, eh? I was in the Jellema Room, an intimidating chamber of dusty philo- sophical tracts, stale coff ee, slow e-mail, and a coterie of would-be philoso- phers. As a philosophy major, I had earned the right...

...David Colander; Daisy Zhuo This is an economist’s consideration of the PhD job market in English and comparative literature. It provides data about the job market at schools in various tiers, demonstrating that supply of new English PhDs far exceeds demand for English PhDs in tenure-track academic...

...M. Kilian McCurrie © 2004 Duke University Press 2004 Banks, William. 2000 . “ English 101:Language and Composition I: A Catalogue History .” Unpublished manuscript. Bell, David, et al. 2002 . “Why Major in Literature—What Do We Tell Our Students?” PMLA 117 : 487 -521. Berlin...

...Jennifer Beech; Julie Lindquist 171 C o m m e n t a r y The Work before Us: Attending to English Departments Poor Relations Jennifer Beech and Julie Lindquist It is the last English department meeting of the fall semester. A composition worker takes her place among twelve colleagues with whom she...

.... O'Dair, Sharon. 2000 . “Stars, Tenure, and the Death of Ambition.” In Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy , ed. Peter C. Herman, 45 -62. Albany: State University of New York Press. Ohmann, Richard. 2000 . “The Function of English at the Present Time.” In Richter 2000...

... improves bedside manner but also increases objec- tive test scores. I can easily apply this idea in English classes by letting stu- dents analyze a short piece of writing or define a crucial concept such as cre- ativity early in the course. Brookfield writes about helping students understand...

...Jennifer Morrison © 2005 Duke University Press 2005 The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (and They're All Hard Parts) . By Katie Wood Ray (with Lester Laminack). Urbana, IL:National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. Atwell, Nancie. 1998 . In the Middle. 2nd...

... students with diffi cul- ties. So too does the Brontës expectation of reader familiarity with British culture in the nineteenth century and with the English Bible. In addition, recent scholarship by academics like Christine Alexander has made available Brontë juvenilia and artwork, both of which...

.... 2002 . “Dis/Integrating the Gay/Queer Binary: `Reconstructed Identity Politics' for a Performative Pedagogy.” College English 65 : 17 -35. Kumashiro, Kevin K. 2003 . “Queer Ideals in Education.” Journal of Homosexuality 45 : 365 -67. Lorde, Audre. 1984 . “The Transformation of Silence...

...Susan Weinstein © 2005 Duke University Press 2005 The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives . Edited by Robert Yagelski and Scott Leonard. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2002. Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1984 . The Dialogic Imagination...

..., Bethany. 2001 . “Review: Why Teach Popular Culture?” College English 63 : 500 -16. Owen, David B., and Charles L. P. Silet. 1997 . “Changing Perceptions, Not Just Channels, in the Heartland: Teaching Television's Teaching.” Radical Teacher 50 : 7 -11. Ramsay, John G. 2002 . “Hell's...

...Kailash C. Baral Duke University Press 2006 Ashok, A. Venkabarao. 2002 . “English in India Today: Discipline, Postdiscipline, and Indiscipline.” In Humanities and Pedagogy: Teaching of Humanities Today , ed. Kailash C. Baral, 97-106. Delhi: Pencraft International. Crystal, David...

...Janet Alsup; Tammy Conard-Salvo; Scott J. Peters In this article, an English education professor, a university writing center administrator, and a recent graduate of an undergraduate English education program discuss the role peer tutoring might play in enhancing the education of preservice...

... Initiative. 2007 . Horizon Report . Stanford, CA: Creative Commons. Wenger, Etienne. 1998 . Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity . New York: Cambridge University Press. Reviews Faculty Development in English Studies...

...Christine Tulley; Kristine Blair In this essay, Tulley and Blair combine instructional and editorial perspectives to analyze how the process of digital composing reshapes often entrenched notions of authorship and composing practice within the English major by having students reenvision...

...Richard C. Raymond Rhetoricizing English Studies: Students Ways of Reading Oleanna Richard C. Raymond It s not about sexual harassment. It s about power (Ryan 1996: 393). So says David Mamet in describing his Oleanna, a play that has stirred controversy in dramatic reviews, theaters...

....: Harvard University Press. Wortham, Stanton. 2001 . Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysis . New York: Teachers College Press. English Education Students and Professional Identity Development: Using Narrative and Metaphor to Challenge Preexisting Ideologies Janet Alsup During...

... scholarship while also taking a piece of software, Google Wave, as its central artifact. The seminar demonstrates a pedagogical approach in which new media objects act as both tools and objects of study in the English studies classroom. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited DeVoss...

... .” In Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation , 64 – 84 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Beckwith Sarah . 1992 . “ Ritual, Church and Theatre: Medieval Dramas of the Sacramental Body .” In Culture and History 1350-1600 , ed. Aers David , 65 – 89...

...Julie M. Barst Students can sometimes be resistant to discussing issues of diversity in the English classroom, making it a challenge for instructors to hold honest and enlightening exchanges about race, sexuality, gender, and other facets of human identity. This essay explores various pedagogical...