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This book addresses the urgent need for rigorous and creative examination of how new theoretical principles, sociocultural investments, and pedagogical technologies inform classroom teaching. Written by current and former graduate and faculty instructors of English at the University of Texas at Austina department that has been centrally involved in national controversies over literary multiculturalism, the politics of writing instruction, and the development of academic computer technologythis collection constitutes a uniquely situated engagement with the most pressing contemporary questions in English studies.After historical and theoretical contextualizing by its coeditors, Situating College English is organized in to three sections that provide conceptual analyses, practical strategies, and empirical data derived from representative classroom experiences and addressed to a range of pedagogical issues.

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title:Situating College English : Lessons From an American University Eries in Language and Ideology
author:Carton, Evan.; Friedman, Alan Warren.
publisher:Greenwood Publishing Group
isbn10 | asin:089789460X
print isbn13:9780897894609
ebook isbn13:9780585386553
language:English
subjectEnglish philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
publication date:1996
lcc:PE68.U5S54 1996eb
ddc:428/.0071/173
subject:English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

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Situating College English

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Situating College English

Lessons from an American University

EDITED BY
Evan Carton and Alan W. Friedman

Series in Language and Ideology
Edited by Donaldo Macedo

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Situating college - photo 2

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Situating college English : lessons from an American university /
edited by Evan Carton and Alan W. Friedman.
p. cm.(Series in language and ideology, ISSN 10696806)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 089789460X (alk. paper).ISBN 0897894812 (pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. English philologyStudy and teaching (Higher)United States.
I. Carton, Evan. II. Friedman, Alan Warren. III. Series.
PE68.U5S54 1996
428'.0071'173dc20 9544323

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright 1996 by Evan Carton and Alan W. Friedman

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 9544323
ISBN: 089789460X
0897894812 (pbk.)
ISSN: 10696806

First published in 1996

Bergin & Garvey, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

Picture 3
The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.481984).

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For Linda Brodkey

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Contents

Acknowledgments

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Part I. Introductions

1. Standard English at the University of Texas

Alan Warren Friedman

2. Political Correctness, Principled Contextualism, Pedagogical Conscience

Evan Carton

Part II. Canonicity, Subalternity, and Literary Pedagogy

3. Pedagogy and the Canon Controversy

Jacqueline Bacon

4. A Multicultural Curriculum: Diversity or Divisiveness?

Helena Woodard

5. Rereading Texas History: Cultural Impoverishment, Empowerment, and Pedagogy

Louis Mendoza

6. English Literature, the Irish, and The Norton Anthology

Rachel Jennings

7. The Thumb of Ekalavya: Postcolonial Studies and the Third World Scholar in a First World Academy

S. Shankar

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8. Reclaiming the Teaching Assistant: Dissent as a Pedagogical Tool

Jean Lee Cole and Jennifer Huth

Part III. Reading, Writing, Teaching: Principles and Provocations

9. Warranting a Postmodernist Literary Studies

Gordon A. Grant III

10. Knowledge, Power, and the Melancholy of English Studies

Robert G. Twombly

11. Collaborative Learning in the Postmodern Classroom

Jerome Bump

12. Professionalism and the Problem of the We in Composition Studies

Nancy L. Peterson

13. An Accidental Writing Teacher

Sara E. Kimball

14. Having Students Write on Moral Topics: Legal, Religious, and Pedagogical Issues

James L. Kinneavy

Part IV. Bodies, Sexualities, and Computers in the Classroom

15. Desire and Learning: The Perversity of Pedagogy

Kathleen Kane

16. Learning and Desire: A Pedagogical Model

Edward Madden

17. Gender and Trauma in the Classroom

Margot Gayle Backus

18. Type Normal Like the Rest of Us: Writing, Power, and Homophobia in the Networked Composition Classroom

Alison Regan

19. Rethinking Pedagogical Authority in Response to Homophobia in the Networked Classroom

Susan Claire Warshauer

20. Here, Queer, and Perversely Sincere: Lesbian Subjects in the English Department

Kim Emery

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Bibliography

Index

Contributors

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Acknowledgments

We wish to express our gratitude to Marla Akin and Jackie Rabinovitz for their assistance in putting together the spring 1992 conference on Pedagogy and Values at the University of Texas at Austin, out of which this volume has emerged. Others who made significant contributions to that conference include Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Moore, Kamala Platt, and Marjorie Curry Woods. Several of the chapters included here have been previously published in somewhat different form, and we acknowledge with thanks permission for the following:

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