Writing against the Curriculum Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom

by Kristensen, Randi Gray; Claycomb, Ryan M.

• ISBN13: 9780739128008
• ISBN10: 0739128000
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-05
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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.

Author Biography

Randi Gray Kristensen is assistant professor in the University Writing Program at George Washington University. Ryan M. Claycomb is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Writing against the Curriculum	p. 1
What Is Writing For?
Toward an Anti-Disciplinary Nexus: Cultural Studies, Rhetoric Studies, and Composition	p. 21
Subjugated Knowledges and Dedisciplinarity in a Cultural Studies Pedagogy	p. 35
Interventions at the Intersections: An Analysis of Public Writing and Student Writing	p. 57
Shifting Schemas
Writing Is Against Discipline: Three Courses	p. 75
The Brake of Reflection: Slowing Social Process in the Critical WID Classroom	p. 91
Location, Location, Location: The Radical Potential of Web-Intensive Writing Programs to Challenge Disciplinary Boundaries	p. 111
Discipline and Indulgence	p. 127
Writing across the (Anti) Disciplines
ôOnly Connectö: Doing Dickens, Cultural Studies, and Anti-Disciplinarity in the University Literature Classroom	p. 147
From Things Fall Apart to Freedom Dreams: Black Studies and Cultural Studies in the Composition Classroom	p. 171
Performing/Teaching/Writing: Performance Studies in the Critical Composition Classroom	p. 183
Appendix	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 225
Contributors	p. 233
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