Failure Pedagogies

Allison D. Carr, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Coe College (IA), earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 2014. Her work has appeared in Composition Forum, Pedagogy, Computers & Composition Online, and multiple edited volumes.Laura R. Micciche, Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999. She has published three books on writing and emotion and recently completed a six-year term editing Composition Studies.

• List of Figures – Chris Hay: Foreword: Failure, Fear, and Alternate Routes – Acknowledgments – Allison D. Carr/Laura R. Micciche: Introduction: Failure’s Sweat – Caddie Alford: When One Door Closes, Another Opens; Or, Appreciating Clichés – Alba Newmann Holmes/Kara Wittman: The Costs of Clarity – Kate Pantelides: After the Accusation: The Lasting Impact of Plagiarism Trauma on Student Writing Behaviors – Darci L. Thoune: Failure Potential: Using Failure as Feedback – Jim Ridolfo: Rhetorical Velocity and Fake News – R.J. Lambert: Failure as Exigence: Accusation and Apology as Opportunities for (Re)invention – Nancy G. Barrón/Sibylle Gruber: Redefining Failure: Controlling a Sense of Self – Anne Dalke: A Force of Disruption: Refusing the Success/Failure Complex – Shari J. Stenberg/Stacey Waite: Who Survives the Witch Hunt? Supporting Our Students in a Process We Know Will Fail Them – Gavin P. Johnson/Ryan Sheehan: The Uses of Queer Failure: Navigating the Pedagogical Mandate of Happiness – Jeanette Lehn: Committing to Failure: Critical Pedagogy and Failure in Classroom Teaching – Cassandra Phillips/Joanne Baird Giordano: Messy Processes Into and Out of Failure: Professional Identities and Open-Access Writers – Michelle LaFrance: Failure to Wake? What #WPAListservFeministRevolution Tells Us About a "Feminist" Writing Studies – Julie Myatt: Persevering Even When "We Are All Full of Mad": A Lesson in the Value of Incremental Progress – Maria Novotny/Juliette Givhan: "You Google Infertility and You Don’t See Me": Towards an Intersectional Framework Resisting the Rhetorical Slippages of Reproductive Activism – Kara Taczak/Debbie Gale Mitchell: Embracing the Ugly – Adam Hubrig: Narrativizing Dis/Ability: Deconstructing Institutional Uses of Disability Narratives – Aja Y Martinez: Papelitos Guardados, Part I: On Collegiality and Failure – Asao B. Inoue: Afterword: Failure and Letting Go – Contributors – Index.