Unsustainable

Laurie Cella is associate professor and director of the First-Year Writing Program at Shippensburg University.Jessica Restaino is associate professor of English and director of First-Year Writing at Montclair State University.

• Introductionby Laurie CellaPart 1. Short-Lived Projects, Long-Lived ValueChapter 1. After Tactics, What Comes Next?by Paula MathieuChapter 2. Tales from the Crawl Space: Asserting Youth Agency Within an Unsustainable Education Systemby Paul Feigenbaum, Sharayna Douglas, and Maria LovettChapter 3. Strategic Speculations on the Question of Value: The Role of Community Publishing in English Studiesby Stephen ParksChapter 4. Everyone Loved It and Still It Closed: When a Writing Program Isn't a Core Mandateby Emily Isaacs and Ellen KolbaPart 2. Community Literacy, Personal ContextsChapter 5. Sustainability Deferred: The Conflicting Logics of Career Advancement and Community Engagementby Thomas DeansChapter 6. Hope and Despair, Risk and Struggle: (j)WPA Work, Service-Learning, and the Case for Baby Stepsby Michael DonnellyChapter 7. Mobile Sustainability: An Adjunct's Development of a Permanent Practiceby Karen JohnsonPart 3. PedagogyChapter 8. Assessing Sustainability: The Class that Went Terribly Wrongby Ellen Cushman and Lorelei BlackburnChapter 9. The Idea of a Literacy Dulaby Hannah AshleyPart 4. Toward a Transnational SustainabilityChapter 10. No More Than Fire Belongs to Prometheus: Techne, Institutions, and Interventions in Local Public Lifeby Elenore LongChapter 11. Mastery, Failure, and Community Outreach as Stochastic Art: Lessons Learned with the Sudanese Diaspora in Phoenixby Jennifer CliftonConclusionby Jessica RestainoAfterward by Eli Goldblatt

Our current economic and social climate heightens the need for the critical scholarship featured in Unsustainable. The essays extend popular theoretical understandings of community-university dynamics through sometimes unnerving, too often familiar, narratives that recount funding debacles, student/community writer crises, ethical quandaries, and the politics of intervention. In the end, teachers, writers, and researchers are invited to find spaces for engagement, knowing that, despite inevitable challenges, community literacy theory and pedagogy represents some of the most dynamic work being done in composition, rhetoric, and literacy studies today.