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- Object and Character in The Dark Is RisingPlante, Raymond L. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986)
- On Using Balloons SparinglyBostian, Frieda F. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
- What students don't say - an approach to the student textShaw, M. L. (National Council of Teachers of English, 1991-02)
- From Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority in Ursula K. Le Guin's Farthest Shore and TehanuHatfield, Len (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993)
- Of School and the River: The Wind in the Willows and its Immediate AudienceGraham, Kathryn V. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)
- Louise Fitzhugh, Marisol, and the Realm of ArtStahl, J. D. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
- Service-Learning as a Path to Virtue: The Ideal Orator in Professional CommunicationDubinsky, James M. (Michigan Publishing, 2002-04-13)This article examines service-learning as a means to bridge the gap between practical courses in the curriculum such as professional communication, which are linked to a market-economy, and the ideal of public service. By outlining ways in which service-learning has been used in the professional communication field, and problems and concerns with its use, the author explores the charge of “vocationalism.” The historical connection between rhetoric and professional communication is developed through a detailed case study analysis covering the author’s partnership with a non-profit organization over several semesters. The author suggests that when used with care and reflection, service-learning can be a path toward virtue for students, helping them to inculcate a public service ideal.
- The Status of Service in LearningDubinsky, James M. (Utah State University Press, 2004-06-16)
- The Sturdy Fabric of Cultural Imperialism: Tracing Its Patterns in Contemporary Children's NovelsMacCann, Donnarae (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
- In God we troust - Derek Walcott and GodD'Aguiar, Frederick M. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
- The Devil's Own Art: Topiary in Children's FictionGraham, Kathryn V. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)
- Introduction: Service-Learning and Professional CommunicationDubinsky, James M.; Bowdon, Melody (2005-04-08)
- Twenty years in: An essay in two partsHeilker, Paul V. (National Council of Teachers of English, 2006-12)Part I of this essay traces the evolution of my understanding of the exploratory essay as a discursive form and a genre for teaching writing. Part II explores my motivations for advocating a polarized definition of the essay and then concludes with a call to expand the purview of composition beyond first-year courses.
- Things (not) to do with breasts in public: Maternal embodiment and the biocultural politics of infant feedingHausman, Bernice L. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)This article offers a biocultural analysis of public representations of breastfeeding, identifying underlying social conflicts that infant feeding controversies mask. If the traditional biocultural approach to breastfeeding emphasizes a need to take account of biological facts from within an evolutionary perspective, this version attends to biological and cultural narratives of lactation as constructions of maternity that together produce diverse rhetorical and material results. Analyzing breastfeeding from this kind of perspective brings attention to social norms of male embodiment, the role of technology in mediating social anxieties about mother's bodies, and the ambivalent cultural impacts of the medicalization of infant feeding. The analysis focuses on three different representational domains: television programs and other mass media forms, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2004 National Breastfeeding Promotion Campaign, and feminist scholarship and activism addressing breastfeeding. In each domain, the same controversies circulate, for example, the physical difficulties of breastfeeding, whether breastfeeding in public is appropriate, how much breastfeeding contributes to health, or whether breastfeeding necessitates a technological apparatus to insure success. These debates really concern maternal responsibility and sexuality: the "problem of breastfeeding" is really another problem, namely the one initiated by women's attempts to enter into public life as women, with all the attendant difficulties of asserting equality and difference simultaneously and of challenging reigning public norms about women's proper place.
- Open Access Dissemination Challenges: A Case StudyRadcliffe, David H.; Stovall, Connie; Young, Philip (Virginia Library Association, 2007-11-01)
- Future Missionaries of America StoriesVollmer, Matthew (Macadam Cage Pub, 2008)Offers a collection of twelve short stories offering insights about sex, love, and loss.
- ConduitQueen, Khadijah (Akashic Books, 2008)Chris Abani's Black Goat series presents the debut poetry collection from one of America's most promising young writers.
- Two comments on "Neurodiversity"Lewiecki-Wilson, C.; Dolmage, J.; Heilker, Paul V.; Jurecic, A. (National Council of Teachers of English, 2008-01)
- Women's liberation and the rhetoric of "choice" in infant feeding debatesHausman, Bernice L. (2008-08-04)This short essay examines infant formula marketing and information sources for their representation of "choice" in the infant feeding context, and finds that while providing information about breast and bottle feeding, infant formula manufacturers focus on mothers' feelings and intuition rather than knowledge in making decisions. In addition, the essay considers how "choice" operates in the history of reproductive rights, shifting the discourse from a rights-based set of arguments to one based on a consumerist mentality. Utilizing the work of historian Rickie Solinger and a 2007 paper for the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, I argue that the structure of market work, and not abstract maternal decision making, determine mothers' choices and practices concerning infant feeding. For true freedoms for mothers to be achieved, freedoms that would include greater social provisions for mothers, our culture will have to confront how structural constraints make breastfeeding difficult, as well as how the concept of choice divides mothers into those who make good choices and those who do not.
- Holy Cards/Immaginette: The Extraordinary Literacy of Vernacular ReligionGeorge, Diana L.; Salvatori, Mariolina Rizzi (National Council of Teachers of English, 2008-12)Like other seemingly ordinary materials (cookbooks, street art, scrapbooks, etc.) the subject of our investigation-holy cards or (in Italian) immaginette-often function as rich repositories of personal and cultural memory as well as indicators of popular literacy practices. But to relegate them to the category of ephemera, as is customary with materials of this sort, diverts attention from their significant cultural and pedagogical value. In our attempt to foreground the complex nature and function of these artifacts, we have found much of the scholarship on vernacular or material religion and everyday culture particularly helpful. In their attention to what popular culture scholar David Morgan has called "objects that have not mattered in most historical accounts," these areas of study have lent support to our "understanding of the[ir] power and meaning" (xi). Yet, it is literacy studies that has enabled us to cast light on and to articulate their intricate, extraordinary pedagogical workings. At the same time, these humble artifacts have enabled us to critically re-approach and put pressure on some of the most commonplace articulations of literacy. Our goal then is to demonstrate that these seemingly "ordinary objects" are significant cultural and historical signifiers and that as such they can contribute to a fuller understanding of the common literacy practices of vernacular religion.