I leave Corvallis today for Portland, and from there, it’s off to Chicago and Iowa. I’m lugging some books onto the plane. Along with some journal articles, here’s books I’m gonna try to lug along (you have no idea how long I spent narrowing down this list):
James Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies
Marc Bracher, Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner, eds., Critical Theory and Society: A Reader
Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures
Edward Corbett, Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate, eds., The Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook, 4th ed.
Nick Crossley and John Michael Roberts, eds., After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere
Peter Elbow, Everyone Can Write: Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing and Teaching Writing
Lster Faigley, Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition
Xin Liu Gale, Teachers, Discourses, and Authority in the Postmodern Composition Classroom
Henry A. Giroux, Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy’s Promise and Education’s Challenge
Henry A. Giroux and Peter McClaren, eds., Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies
Andrea Greenbaum, ed., Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies
Gerard A. Hauser and Amy Grim, eds., Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement
Gary A. Olson and Sidney I. Dobrin, eds., Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom
Bruce Robbins, The Phantom Public Sphere
Christian R. Weisser, Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphere
Robert P. Yagelski, Literacy Matters: Writing and Reading the Social Self
Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy
Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference
Making this list will be very helpful should the airlines lose my suitcase — sobbing and shaking, I’ll be able to give them a list of books to replace. 🙂
I say read Corbett et al. cover-to-cover and blog it. That’s enough, and quite a bit.
And I’d be curious to hear what stands out.
Hope your back doesn’t break.