Writing against the curriculum : anti-disciplinarity in the writing and cultural studies classroom / edited by Randi Gray Kristensen and Ryan M. Claycomb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kristensen, Randi Gray, 1960-

Claycomb, Ryan M., 1974-

Series:

Cultural studies/pedagogy/activism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Higher).

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

English language--Composition and exercises.

Physical Description:

vii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]

Summary:

Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an “Introduction to Writing” course and a subsequent selection of writing-intensive courses housed within academic departments, thus simultaneously offering opportunities to subvert disciplinary knowledge production in the earlier course, even as they reaffirm those divisions in their later requirements.

Written by administrators, faculty, and librarians at public and private institutions who teach traditional and online introductory and advanced writing classes, the essays in Writing against the Curriculum argue that these introductory composition classrooms make excellent spaces in which to question disciplinarity through the study of rhetoric, with an emphasis on critical thinking and curricular flexibility, before students experience disciplinary enforcement most intensely in the advanced courses. Thus, this collection intervenes in current discourses of theory and practice in the related fields of composition and cultural studies because simultaneous attention to both fields enables both the activist enactment of cultural studies' theoretical ambitions and the interrogation of the theoretical and political implications of composition practices.

Contents:

Introduction : writing against the curriculum / Randi Gray Kristensen and Ryan Claycomb

What is the writing for? Toward an anti-disciplinary nexus : cultural studies, rhetoric studies, and composition / Ryan Claycomb and Rachel Riedner

Subjugated knowledges and dedisciplinarity in a cultural studies pedagogy / Joe Parker

Interventions at the intersections : an analysis of public writing and student writing / Pegeen Reichert Powell

Shifting schemas. Writing is against discipline : three courses / Alan Ramón Clinton

The brake of reflection : slowing social process in the critical WID classroom / David Kellogg

Location, location, location : the radical potential of Web-intensive writing programs to challenge disciplinary boundaries / Catherine Gouge

Discipline and indulgence / Cathy Eisenhower and Dolsy Smith

Writing across the (anti) disciplines. "Only connect" : doing Dickens, cultural studies, and anti-disciplinarity in the university literature classroom / Eric G. Lorentzen

From Things fall apart to Freedom dreams : Black studies and cultural studies in the composition classroom / Randi Gray Kristensen

Performing/teaching/writing : performance studies in the critical composition classroom / Ryan Claycomb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739128008

0739128000

9780739142790

0739142798

OCLC:

428926426