Writing against the Curriculum

Randi Gray Kristensen is assistant professor of university writing at The George Washington University.Ryan Claycomb is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing against the CurriculumPart 2 Part I. What is the Writing for?Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Cultural Studies, Rhetorical Studies, and Composition: Toward an Anti-Disciplinary NexusChapter 4 Chapter 3. Subjugated Knowledges and De-disciplinarity in a Cultural Studies PedagogyChapter 5 Chapter 4. Interventions at the Intersections: An Analysis of Public Writing and Student WritingPart 6 Part II. Shifting SchemasChapter 7 Chapter 5. Writing is against Discipline: Three CoursesChapter 8 Chapter 6. The Brake of Reflection: Slowing Social Process in the Critical WID ClassroomChapter 9 Chapter 7. Location, Location, Location: The Radical Potential of Web-Intensive Writing Programs to Challenge Disciplinary BoundariesChapter 10 Chapter 8. Discipline and IndulgencePart 11 Part III. Writing across the (Anti)DisciplinesChapter 12 Chapter 9. "Only Connect": Doing Dickens, Cultural Studies, and Anti-Disciplinarity in the University Literature ClassroomChapter 13 Chapter 10. From Things Fall Apart to Freedom Dreams: Black Literature in the Multicultural Composition ClassroomChapter 14 Chapter 11. Performing/Teaching/Writing: Performance Studies in the Critical Composition Classroom

Writing against the Curriculum makes a significant and timely contribution to critical conversations about the place and status of the fields/areas of composition, rhetoric, and cultural studies. This collection is especially timely given substantial institutional pressures to rationalize writing, inquiry, and pedagogy into commodifiable and assessable forms; and, by demands to professionalize and package these fields as 'disciplines.' While Kristensen and Claycomb accurately refer to their collection as "border writing" (in Giroux's sense of the term), the text also has the critical, creative, and resistant energy of an affinity group-struggling within the nexus of classrooms, academic institutions, and neoliberalism. Writing against the Curriculum is a must read for students and faculty devoted to, in the words of Kristensen and Claycomb, "making space for the unruly, the resistant, and the radical" in composition, rhetoric, and cultural studies.