Two past UW students published in Young Scholars in Writing, a peer-review journal for undergradate students in the field of rhetoric and composition
The seventh edition of Young Scholars in Writing, a peer-review journal for undergradate students in the field of rhetoric and composition, has just been published.
Two of Professor Rachel Riedner's students from last year, Andy Erickson and Lindsay Gordon, have their final UW20 papers published in the seventh edition. Both Lindsay and Andy presented their papers at the University Writing and Research Symposium held on March 5th.
Young Scholars is a great opportunity for UW20 students who are inspired to take their writing and research beyond the class. The journal's revision process is the same as a professional journal's; it is intensive but also rewarding. If you have students who are doing work that intersects with rhetoric and composition studies and who would embrace the peer review process (by both alumni of the journal and faculty), direct them to Young Scholars.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Two University Writing Students Publish Their Papers
Friday, January 29, 2010
New Publications From Our Faculty
New publications from First Year Writing Program faculty members and instructional librarians highlight the diversity of scholarship and creative work being produced by the University Writing Progam. 
Writing against the Curriculum has been "a UW20 labor of love," according to Professor Randi Gray Kristensen. "It was born and built out of the series of convivial summer gatherings, the Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies Symposia, organized by our own Associate Professor Rachel Riedner and Byron Hawk, Associate Professor of English at George Mason University and editor of Enculturation, a Journal of Cultural and Rhetorical Studies."
Writing Against the Curriculum is co-edited by current faculty Randi Gray Kristensen and UW20 emeritus Ryan Claycomb, now tenure-tracking at West Virginia University. They co-wrote the introduction and separately contributed a chapter each. Chapter one was co-written by Rachel and Ryan, and University Resesarch and Instructional Librarians Cathy Eisenhower and Dolsy Smith co-wrote a chapter that challenges disciplinary conventions in form and content. These UW20 contributions are in conversation with terrific articles by colleagues who work as administrators and faculty at public and private universities around the US. Nationwide, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines programs offer significant opportunities for thinking critically about the role of introductory and advanced writing classes in the development of knowledges and writers; our contributors consider and act on these opportunities in the context of the economics of higher education, public discourses, legal challenges, emerging technologies, and shifting disciplinary boundaries.
Praise from GW's own Robert McRuer: "This volume is the guidebook to anti-disciplinary living and teaching that we've been waiting for. Composition and cultural studies come together here to expose the fractures in the corporate university, with its efforts to streamline production, contain difference, and turn out recognizable, disciplined commodities. Writing against such a limited curriculum, the scholar-activists included in this volume collectively seek to unleash all that is excessive and unruly about learning, teaching, and writing. In doing so, they position the writing classroom not as a mere gateway to disciplinarity and professionalization. Instead, the writing classroom becomes a resistant location where new forms of knowledge, new ways of thinking and writing, and unexpected but vital forms of critical conviviality are generated."
More about the book and its authors at Lexington Books and on Facebook
Professor Cayo Gamber’s publications highlight her work in Holocaust studies, writing pedagogy, and their practical points of intersection in a writing classroom. “Designing the Holocaust at the Sites of the Shoah and Museum Stores” (in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal:3.6 (2009): 1-14) and “Engaging the Art of Peritext: From the Promise of the Index to the Allure of the Footnote” (in The International Journal of the Book 6.4 (2009): 55-66) are out now. “From Photographs to Elegies: Engaging the Holocaust in a Writing Course.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, is forthcoming in March 2010.
Three short pieces of fiction by Professor Peter Levine will appear in the spring. - "La Jolla" in The Southern Review, "Ribbon, Tree, Father, Son" in Mid American Review and "Havasu" in Slice Magazine. 
Professor Levine’s short story "How Does Your Garden Grow?" (which originally appeared in The Missouri Review (2008) has also been recognized as a notable story by a new anthology published by The University of Texas Press, titled Best of the West: New Stories From the Wide Side of Missouri.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Prof. Zachary Wolfe's New Book on Hate Crimes Law Published
UW20 Prof. Wolfe will appear in the Gelman Library GW Luminary Faculty Authors Signing Reception series. Hate Crime Laws is a key legal resource for lawyers, activists, and judges.
The Faculty Authors series is open to students, faculty, staff and the public. It is an opportunity for the community to learn about GW faculty research and their experiences in writing the book. There will be presentations by panelists and questions from the audience. Coffee and refreshments will be served.
When & Where:
Thursday, March 5, 2009
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 PM
The Gelman Library, Room 207
Hate Crimes Law provides current analysis and expert legal guidance concerning the federal and state statutes that were enacted to punish or enhance the punishment of bias-motivated crimes.
Prof. Wolfe will be appearing with Prof. Melani McAlister and Prof. Phyllis Palmer, both of the GW American Studies Department.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Prof. Robin Marcus's New Short Story is Published
In It's All Love, Black writers – including the Writing Program's own Robin Marcus – celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. On February 24th, see Professor Marcus speak with other contributors.
Where & When:
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
February 24, 2009
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
More about the book:
Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in "My Own Happy Ending."
Memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, in a piece he calls "Learning the Name Dad," writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that transformed his life for the better.
New York Times bestselling author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching "Missing You."
DC-area resident Robin Marcus explains how "Becoming A Grandmother Becomes Me – Finally"
Award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures readers with his "An Act of Faith."
New York Times bestselling author L. A. Banks is both funny and wise in her beautiful essay on discovering love as a child, "Two Cents and a Question."
The poetry of love is here, too-from Gwendolyn Brooks's classic "Black Wedding Song" to works by Nikki Giovanni, E. Ethelbert Miller, A. Van Jordan, and Kwame Alexander.
It's All Love is a dazzling, delightfully diverse exploration of the wonderful gift of love.
Friday, November 21, 2008
For UW20 Prof. Cayo Gamber, Herstory Matters
In three pieces of nonfiction published in the Journal of The Association for Research on Mothering, Cayo Gamber discovers that it is through the stories she tells herself about her mother and through the act of story-telling itself that her relationship with her mother is both revealed and redeemed.
Prof. Gamber says: These three pieces of creative nonfiction attempt to capture the relationship between a mother who was ingenious, dramatic, and subversive and her daughter who found her inspiring, perilous, and furtive.
Lee Gutkind, editor and founder of the journal, Creative Nonfiction, argues that "[w]hat is most important and enjoyable about creative nonfiction is that it not only allows but also encourages the writer to become a part of the story or essay being written. The personal involvement creates a special magic that alleviates the suffering and anxiety of the writing experience; it provides many outlets for satisfaction and self-discovery, flexibility and freedom." (http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/whatiscnf.htm)
I agree with Gutkind that there is a special magic in this genre. For me, it was what I would call an "emotional truth-telling" that made these pieces magical for me in performing both as a participant in the story and a writer of that story.
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