Description
Book SynopsisArgues for the critical, intellectual, and social value of archival instruction. Contributors examine how undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, history, community literacy, and professional writing can successfully engage students in archival research in its many forms, and successfully model mutually beneficial relationships.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Foreword: The Archives of Epistemic Possibility by Ryan Skinnell
- Acknowledgments
- Teaching Rhetoric and Composition through the Archives: Critical Introduction by Wendy Hayden and Tarez Samra Graban
- Section I. Archives as Text
- 1. Using the Archives to Teach Slow Research and Create Local Connections by Lisa Mastrangelo
- 2. Cultivating a Feminist Consciousness in the University Archive by Lisa Shaver
- 3. Arranging Our Emotions: Archival Affects and Emotional Responses by Jane Greer
- 4. Creative Storytelling: Archives as Sites for Nonfiction Research and Writing by Katherine E. Tirabassi
- 5. Assembled Trajectories, Perishable Performances, and Teaching from the Harvard Archives by James Beasley
- Section II. Archives as Collaboration
- 6. Internships as Techne: Teaching the Archive through the Museum of Everyday Writing by Jennifer Enoch, Megan Keaton, Ellen Cecil-Lemkin, and Travis Maynard
- 7. Listening Rhetorically to Build Collaboration and Community in the Archives by Shirley K Rose, Glenn C. W. Newman, and Robert P. Spindler
- 8. Recursion and Responsiveness: Archival Pedagogy and Archival Infrastructures in the Same Conversation by Jenna Morton-Aiken and Robert Schwegler
- 9. Tending Archives: Digital Archival Practices and Making the Work of Technical Communicators Visible to Students by Erin Brock Carlson, Michelle McMullin, and Patricia Sullivan
- 10. Professional Writing for the Archives: Collaboration and Service Learning in a Proposal Writing Class by Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, and Laura Kissel
- Section III. Archives as Activism
- 11. Delinking Student Perceptions of Place With/in the University Archive Laura Proszak and 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 by Janice W. Fernheimer, Beth L. Goldstein, Sarah Dorpinghaus, and Douglas A. Boyd
- 14. “Flagged for Deletion”: Wikipedia, the Federal Writers’ Project and First-Year Composition by Courtney Rivard
- 15. Is Anyone Sitting Here?: Mirroring Gaillet’s “Survival Steps” in a Community-Based, Justice-Focused Classroom by Jeanne Law-Bohannon and Shiloh Gill Garcia
- 16. “Loving Blackness” as a First-Year Composition Student Learning Outcome in the Archives by Michelle S. Hite, with Tiffany Atwater, Holly Smith, and Andrea Jackson
- Afterword: Why Teach through the Archives? by LynÉe Lewis Gaillet and Katherine H. Adams
- Appendix A: “Creative Storytelling”: Creative Nonfiction Archival Research Project
- Appendix B: ENC 6700 Studies in Composition Theory
- Appendix C
- Appendix D: Spelman College English Composition Shared Student Learning Outcomes
- Contributors
- Index
