Teaching through the archives : text, collaboration, and activism / edited by Tarez Samra Graban and Wendy Hayden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graban, Tarez Samra, editor.

Hayden, Wendy, 1977- editor.

Skinnell, Ryan, 1978- writer of foreword.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives--Research--Methodology.

Archives.

History--Archival resources--History--Study and teaching (Secondary).

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Teaching Through the Archives explores how working in the archives can foster rhetorical awareness and enhance rhetorical strategies; how archival work can support social change, activism, and community engagement; and how archivists, instructors, and community organizations can establish mutually beneficial relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Archives as Text

1. Using the Archives to Teach Slow Research and Create Local Connections / Lisa Mastrangelo

2. Cultivating a Feminist Consciousness in the University Archive / Lisa Shaver

3. Arranging Our Emotions: Archival Affects and Emotional Responses / Jane Greer

4. Creative Storytelling: Archives as Sites for Nonfiction Research and Writing / Katherine E. Tirabassi

5. Assembled Trajectories, Perishable Performances, and Teaching from the Harvard Archives / James P. Beasley

SECTION II Archives as Collaboration

6. Internships as Techne: Teaching the Archive through the Museum of Everyday Writing / Travis Maynard

7. Listening Rhetorically to Build Collaboration and Community in the Archives / Robert P. Spindler

8. Recursion and Responsiveness: Archival Pedagogy and Archival Infrastructures in the Same Conversation / Robert Schwegler

9. <Ex>Tending Archives: Digital Archival Practices and Making the Work of Technical Communicators Visible to Students / Patricia Sullivan

10. Professional Writing for the Archives: Collaboration and Service Learning in a Proposal Writing Class / Laura Kissel

SECTION III Archives as Activism

11. Delinking Student Perceptions of Place with/in the University Archive / Ellen Cushman

12. Archives as Resources for Ethical In(ter)vention in Community-Based Writing / Michael-John DePalma

13. Learning to (Re)Compose Identities: Creating and Indexing the JHFE Jewish Kentucky Oral History Repository with Undergraduate Researchers and Jewish Rhetorical Practices / Douglas A. Boyd

14. "Flagged for Deletion": Wikipedia, the Federal Writers' Project, and First-Year Composition / Courtney Rivard

15. Is Anyone Sitting Here?: Mirroring Gaillet's "Survival Steps" in a Community-Based, Justice-Focused Classroom / Shiloh Gill Garcia

16. "Loving Blackness" as a First-Year Composition Student Learning Outcome in the Archives / Andrea Jackson Gavin.

Notes:

Foreword by Ryan Skinnell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching through the archives

ISBN:

9780809338573

0809338572

OCLC:

1263023242