Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline
Pivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices.
 
Because undergraduate degrees in writing studies are relatively new, claiming the discipline has required reinvention and revision at personal and professional levels far different than any other discipline. Suspicions about the viability of the discipline linger in many departments and universities, as well as outside the academy, leading writing studies scholars to develop innovative strategies to deal with covertly hostile attitudes. Within the collection, contributors name explicit claiming strategies from the discipline’s beginnings to the contemporary moment, locating opportune spaces, negotiating identities and fostering resilience, and developing allegiances by foregrounding their embodiment as underrepresented members of academia through a commitment to social justice and equity.
 
Responding to current conversations on the worth of education with honest stories about the burdens and joys of becoming and being an academic, Pivotal Strategies features a spectrum of voices across racial, gender, class, and age categories. This collection not only makes the discipline more visible but also helps map the contemporary state of writing studies.
 
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Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline
Pivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices.
 
Because undergraduate degrees in writing studies are relatively new, claiming the discipline has required reinvention and revision at personal and professional levels far different than any other discipline. Suspicions about the viability of the discipline linger in many departments and universities, as well as outside the academy, leading writing studies scholars to develop innovative strategies to deal with covertly hostile attitudes. Within the collection, contributors name explicit claiming strategies from the discipline’s beginnings to the contemporary moment, locating opportune spaces, negotiating identities and fostering resilience, and developing allegiances by foregrounding their embodiment as underrepresented members of academia through a commitment to social justice and equity.
 
Responding to current conversations on the worth of education with honest stories about the burdens and joys of becoming and being an academic, Pivotal Strategies features a spectrum of voices across racial, gender, class, and age categories. This collection not only makes the discipline more visible but also helps map the contemporary state of writing studies.
 
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Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline

Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline

Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline

Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline

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Pivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices.
 
Because undergraduate degrees in writing studies are relatively new, claiming the discipline has required reinvention and revision at personal and professional levels far different than any other discipline. Suspicions about the viability of the discipline linger in many departments and universities, as well as outside the academy, leading writing studies scholars to develop innovative strategies to deal with covertly hostile attitudes. Within the collection, contributors name explicit claiming strategies from the discipline’s beginnings to the contemporary moment, locating opportune spaces, negotiating identities and fostering resilience, and developing allegiances by foregrounding their embodiment as underrepresented members of academia through a commitment to social justice and equity.
 
Responding to current conversations on the worth of education with honest stories about the burdens and joys of becoming and being an academic, Pivotal Strategies features a spectrum of voices across racial, gender, class, and age categories. This collection not only makes the discipline more visible but also helps map the contemporary state of writing studies.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646426331
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Publication date: 07/15/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 269
File size: 734 KB

About the Author

Lynn C. Lewis is associate professor and director of rhetoric and writing studies in the English Department at Oklahoma State University. She studies visual rhetorics and design as well as writing pedagogy, rhetorical studies, and writing technologies; is the editor of Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Discourse; and has published in journals such as JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics and Pedagogy, among others.
 

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction | Lynn C. Lewis Section I: Kairos and Opportunity Interlude One: Kairos and Opportunity 1. Political, Personal, and Pedagogical Imperatives: Tactical Disciplinarity among Early Members of Writing Studies | Lauren Marshall Bowen and Laurie A. Pinkert 2. Through the Eyepiece (and Body) of a Long Past | Suellynn Duffey 3. Strategizing Disciplinarity, Disciplinary Strategies | Tara Wood 4. Embracing Failure: A Newly Independent Department’s Attempts at Writing Its Own Script | Ron Brooks, Caroline Dadas, Laura Field, and Jessica Restaino Section II: Negotiations and Resilience Interlude Two: Negotiations and Resilience 5. Claiming and Being Claimed by Writing Studies: Negotiating Identities for Creative Writers Teaching Composition | Alison Ersheid, Lisa Konigsberg, Maureen McVeigh, Nancy Pearson, and Seth Kahn 6. From Pell Grants to Tenure Track: Precarity and Privilege as a Disciplinary Pathway | Cynthia Johnson 7. Finding Resilience in Writing Studies at the United States–Mexico Border | Karen R. Tellez-Trujillo Section III: Allegiance and Identification Interlude Three: Allegiance and Identification 8. Being the Only One: The Embodiment and Labor of Tokenism | Khadeidra Billingsley 9. Literacy and Disciplinarity: Vignettes of Struggle and Identification | Raymond D. Rosas 10. Cognitive Dissonance | Alison Wells Zepeda 11. Writing into Inclusion from the Margins | Antonio Byrd Section IV: Conclusion Embodying Stories: Writing Studies and Its Potential Paths | Christina V. Cedillo Index About the Authors
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