...Ilana M. Blumberg Abstract Focusing on a course taught to Palestinian and Jewish Israelis, this essay suggests that the study of life writing can help students develop a better informed civic identity, particularly in relation to divisive national matters. By carefully constructing collective...

... construct and understand both their own stories and the stories of others. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 narrative empathy literature life writing narrative theory In the fall of 2016, I took a course in life writing, one in storytelling, and an introduction to critical...

...Joel Wilson In view of the constant bombardment of esoteric theory in all aspects of academic life, and especially in composition studies, what can writing instructors do to help their students in a practical way? This article argues that even before teaching craft, writing instructors must...

... (WPAs), experienced instructors, and graduate stu- dents developing their first composition courses. All teachers of writing may benefit from learning about the strangely quiet life of the theme course in our scholarship as they reflect on their own pedagogy in the context of discipline- wide practices...

...William Kangas Abstract With decades of newspaper reporting behind him, the author took a mid-life pivot to teaching that started as a high school substitute. He describes how a student's question about life in the eighties triggers a flashback to a day that gave his life meaning and direction...

... with EBGCs, which were collected in the form of an end‐of‐semester memo assignment. Comprehensively, students find EBGC use to be a positive and worthwhile assessment experience. While there is a learning curve involved, students appreciate the real‐life approach to both labor and engagement on writing tasks...

...Janis Butler Holm Stephen Nachmanovitch's Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art offers a compelling view of creativity as playful practice, a model that engaged and motivated my initially apprehensive experimental writing class. Nachmanovitch's erudition, provocative examples, and narratives...

... Press 2023 college life during the pandemic undergraduate education writing center COVID-19 and student stress I'm finding a dead body . . . I'm in a car crash . . . I'm being outed to my family . . . These unrelenting nightmares keep waking me up far earlier than my alarm, so I'm...

...Jason Maxwell Abstract The article recounts the author's experiences designing an undergraduate business writing course that bridges the long-standing divide between the traditional liberal arts and professionally-oriented forms of education. This course, organized around the television series...

... Writing Texts , ed. Fuchs Miriam Howes Craig , 367 – 73 . New York : Modern Language Association . Hornung Alfred . 2017 . “ Out of Life: Routes, Refugees, Rescue .” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32 . 3 : 603 – 23 . Lenart-Cheng Helga . 2017 . “ Mapping Lives across...

... . 2003 . “ The Ways We Disclose: When Life-Writing Becomes Writing Your Life .” In Lewiecki-Wilson and Brueggemann , Disability and the Teaching of Writing , 130 – 35 . Coleman Lerita M. 2006 [1986] . “ Stigma: An Enigma Demystified .” In Davis , The Disability Studies Reader , 141...

... Sidonie . 2001 . Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Smith Sidonie Watson Julia . 2010 . Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives . 2nd ed. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press...

.... Courses engaging in this work will advance the cause of social justice and enable us to serve as advocates for the full inclusion of neurodiverse students and faculty in our classrooms and on our campuses. In what follows, I offer some strategies for teaching neurodiverse individuals’ life writing...

.... Amy E. Robillard is professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric, composition, and life writing. She is the author of We Find Ourselves in Other People s Stories (2019) and the coeditor, with D. Shane Combs, of How Stories Teach...

... . Castrodale Mark Anthony . 2017 . “ Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies: Enabling New Pedagogies .” Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education 29 , no. 1 : 49 – 66 . Chrisman Wendy . 2008 . “ The Ways We Disclose: When Life-Writing Becomes Writing Your Life .” In Disability...

... University in comparative literature, an interdisciplinary program, where she fused composition, literary, and pedagogical studies to focus on trauma writing. Her primary research interests include writing pedagogy, trauma studies, life writing, pedagogical theory, and the expressive arts...

... to Daniel Defoe (2013 [forthcoming Her current research focuses on eighteenth-­century travel writing and women’s life writing. 380  pedagogy ...

...) and the author of articles on eighteenth-century culture and Canadian literature in such journals as Essays on Canadian Writing and Eighteenth- Century Life, and in books including the New Dictionary of National Biog- raphy, the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (2002), and Reading Early Modern Women (2003...

.... Danielle Sutton is a PhD candidate in English studies at Illinois State University. She works at the intersections of life writing, children's literature, and memory studies and is especially interested in comics and verse memoirs of childhood. She lives in Normal, IL. Julie Sievers is founding...

... thinking. For their feedback on earlier versions of this essay, I am grateful to Matt Dischinger and Eric Rettberg. 1. Susannah Mintz ( 2007 ) uses the phrase unruly bodies to name the intersection of gender and disability in her 2007 monograph, Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women...