The imagination, by virtue of its freshness and its own peculiar activity, can make what is familiar into what is strange.
--Gaston Bachelard
Areas of Interest:
Composition Theory & Practice
Rhetorical & Cultural Theory
Creative Nonfiction
Science Fiction
Education Info:
PhD, English, University of South Florida
Selected Publications:
Signs of Struggle: The Rhetorical Politics of Cultural Difference. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Articles and Essays
“Gathering Smoke.” Tampa Review 30 (2006): 46-47.
“White Power, White Fear.” Rhetoric Review 24 (2005): 385-88.
“Marks of Distinction: Appreciable Differences in Composition Scholarship.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 21 (2001): 883-90.
“The Rhetoric of Therapy and the Politics of Anger: From the Safe House to a Praxis of Shelter.” Rhetoric Review 19 (2000): 42-58.
“Critical Negotiation(s): Transformative Action in Cultural Studies and Border Pedagogy.” The Review of
Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 21 (1999): 149-63 [with G. Olson].
“Rethinking Negotiation in Composition Studies.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19 (1999): 241-51 [with G. Olson].
“Producing Multiculturalism: Readers, Writers, and Race.” Composition Studies 26.1 (1998): 83-94.
“Differencing Negotiation.” Composition Studies 25.2 (1997): 7-18.
“The Racist Other.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 17 (1997): 215-26.
“‘Changing Habits of Thinking’: An Interview with Joseph Harris.” Writing on the Edge 7.2 (1997): 5-14.
“Writing (Reflectively) Across the Curriculum: A Case for Engaging the Unspeakable.” English in Texas 27.2 (1996): 34-39.
“Beyond Dissensus: Exploring the Heuristic Value of Conflict.” Rhetoric Review 15 (1996): 142-55.
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