... studies, I had demanded that my students practice a “hermeneutics of suspicion.” I had required, as Rita Felski ( 2015 : 6) describes of “suspicious reading,” that my students adopt a “critical mood” in which an “attitude of vigilance, detachment, and wariness” (3) underlies an insistence that meaning...

... . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 2003 . Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . critical reading postcritical critique suspicion anxious Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

... of trained suspicion—and the pedagogical limitations of such suspicion. As the group continued to discuss what and how they see their students learning in ILCs, Tracy reproduced the “fluffy” sentiment about empathy that had earlier been identified as a misconception: Tracy: And, at the risk of being...

... — demanded the adoption of a new educational identity. To the residues of class and regional suspicion are attached others, not least a widespread sus- Knights and King    Guest Editors’ Introduction  325 picion on the part of boys and young men that the modalities of English were...

... in higher education work in contingent, adjunct, or sessional positions. And so, teachers are rightfully skeptical of approaches to assessment that increase our labor with little benefit to us or to students. Teachers are rightfully skeptical of approaches to assessment that create a culture of suspicion...

... of the subaltern. But when have we thought about love? I write these words somewhat hesitantly, because the language of love seems so foreign to our critical enterprises and teaching concerns. Having been trained in the hermeneutics of suspicion, we find the disciplines of affection unnatural, no doubt because...

..., a fine example of an essay at the stasis of definition that can be employed productively in composition classes. Third, it revisits old distinctions between philosophy and rhetoric in ways that, while not entirely convincing, illustrate the recent contexts of philosophy’s historical suspicion...

... like universities themselves) are built on shifting dunes of paradox, and while I agree with her eventual solution (via Bill Condon) to stabilize WAC pro- grams through power, support, and integration (Holdstein 2001: 50) I question her suspicion that WAC is a shell game that professes learning...

.... (270) Or Josiah Royce s all-too-familiar critique: Of pedagogy as a single and determinate science, I have always had serious suspicions; and the reasons for these I have now sufficiently formulated. That the teacher needs to know all that he can (1) of the subjects that he is to teach, and (2...

..., and did, that the performance of neutrality, or of identity s ambiguity, was also and pri- marily a kairotic response not just to my own positionality but to the cultural context of the time (late 1990s to early 2000s), which I characterized then as one in which suspicion of and anger at identity...

... . Janangelo Joseph . 2010 . “ Notes on Comp: When WPA Work Hints at Suspicion .” WPA: Writing Program Administration 34 . 1 : 117 – 40 . Leverenz Carrie . 2010 . “ What’s Ethics Got to Do with It? Feminist Ethics and Administration in Rhetoric and Composition .” In Performing Feminism...

... . 2004 . After Theory . London : Penguin . ———. 2008 . Literary Theory: An Introduction , 3rd ed. Minneapolis : Minnesota University Press . Felski Rita . 2009 . “After Suspicion.” Profession 2009 : 28 – 35 . Freire Paulo . 2000 . Pedagogy of the Oppressed , trans...

...—how we interact with nonhuman elements, how we come up against institutional and disciplinary structures, how paranoia and suspicion can be worked with or against—are more urgent now than ever. If we teach students to interpret the affective materials of the classroom and remain open to working...

... only think of a history of feminist critiques of visual pleasure and the male gaze, Marxist analyses of aesthetic ideology and commodity fetishism, the poststructuralist idiom of suspicion and interrogation, New Historicist indictments of power and containment.” 4 And yet, literary theory has never...

...). Dames, K. Matthew. 2008. “Turn You In: Scholarly Ethics in a Culture of Suspicion.” Information Today, 1  June. DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, and  James Porter. 2006. “Why Napster Matters to Writing: Filesharing as a New Ethic of Digital Delivery.” Computers and Composition 23: 178 – 210...

.... McLaughlin, Thomas. 1996 . Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. O'Dair, Sharon. 1993 . “Vestments and Vested Interests: Academia's Suspicion of the Working Class.” In Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge...

... fear that much larger, unimagined labor dangers loom just around the corner for academia, dangers dependent particularly on the emergence of a global labor market for ever more finely splintered strands of academic work. This suspicion, of course, makes the careful hard work of imagining sound...

... be acceptable and during our first meetings of the semester, many articulate quite clearly that they fear we’re going to ruin literature with “political correctness” and overinterpretation. On further discussion, this fear generally turns out to be a suspicion that the close-reading, theme-based essays...

... by David Bartholomae (1989) in his 1988 CCCC chair s address, Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC. But while I share Bartholo- mae s suspicion of disciplinary borders, canons, and god fi gures, I am less taken by his easygoing willingness to allow composition to continue on as an ancillary project...

... Essays: Advanced Persuasive Writing. The students quoted here gave written permission for their work to be reprinted. Readers who would like a copy of the anthology should send an e-mail request to me at [email protected]. Works Cited Bell, David F. 2002. A Moratorium on Suspicion? PMLA 117: 487 89...