Radical Teacher  

Julia Havard,Erica Cardwell,Anandi Rao

The project of creating an anti-oppressive composition issue began with multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration between Julia Havard, Erica Cardwell, Anandi Rao, Juliet Kunkle and Rosalind Diaz, who crafted a call for community-building and ... see more

Yanira Rodríguez

This analysis addresses the need to develop an ethos of decolonial refusal in Composition Studies and the academy in general, arguing that refusal is a livening rhetorical strategy of survival that challenges colonial futurity (Tuck and Yang), is generati... see more

Nick Marsellas

The practice of multicultural scaffolding, offering more information about an author’s marginalized identity, is frequently offered as the solution to challenging social justice discussions in the classroom. However, this type of scaffolding presupposes t... see more

Laura Lisabeth

Dreyer's English, by Benjamin Dreyer, the Senior Copy Editor for Random House, and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style are two extraordinarily popular and commercially successful guides to English language usage that belong to a genre best described ... see more

Eva Boodman

When using critical pedagogy in college classrooms, college students can sometimes experience critique fatigue -- a despondency that results from a saturation of analysis about experiences of oppression that they experience directly. This is especially th... see more

Breanne Fahs

Given that manifestos are an understudied genre of writing, few undergraduate students learn about their history, style, and potential political impact.  This essay reviews the history of manifestos, followed by descriptions of teaching students to w... see more

Ela Przybylo

Drawing on queer and feminist Digital Humanities (DH) and Indigenous, antiracist, and intersectional approaches to publishing, this pedagogy piece reflects on a course designed and taught in Fall 2018 titled “Intersectional Feminist Journal Praxis.” Stude... see more

Julia Miele Rodas

This graphic essay focuses on the use of graphic composition strategies and includes work by contributing authors from my community college composition classroom. The main point of this piece is that *everyone deserves access to important ideas and inform... see more

Danica Savonick

In the digital age, scholars are increasingly arguing that one of the best ways to teach writing is by assigning students to write for audiences beyond the classroom. In this article, I argue that this praxis of publishing student writing is not merely a ... see more

 

M E H

Three Poems by MEH: “blackface party,” “when asked why 'all lives' don’t matter,” & “muscle memory"

Jake Gogats

In this re-view of Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy, I eschew standards of book reviewing and instead aim to provide a pedagogical model for reading the text in question. By writing in a "scattered" format inspired by one of the text's c... see more

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz

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Michele Fazio

The subject of monuments and their historical value in the present, a topic of great debate both politically and culturally in recent years, has brought to the forefront how prevalent white supremacy is in contemporary society. This subject hit close to h... see more

Ianna Hawkins Owen

This is a reflection about teaching first year undergrads at an elite private institution in a predominantly white rural area about blackness and the prison industrial complex in a “writing intensive” course through the use of open letters and the politic... see more

 

Contributors' Notes for Issue 115.