Standing at the Threshold: Working through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship

Standing at the Threshold articulates identity and role dissonances experienced by composition and rhetoric teaching assistants and reimagines the TAship within a larger professional development process. Current researchers and scholars have not fully explored the liminality of the profession’s traditional path to credentialing. This collection reconsiders these positions and their contributions to academic careers.

These authors enrich the TA experience by supporting agency and self-effic...