College English, Vol. 72, No. 2, November 2009

Table of Contents

• Composing in a Global-Local Context: Careers, Mobility, Skills

  Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner

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  Abstract: When composition students look to their teachers for vocational guidance, both groups should acknowledge that the contexts of such terms as career, mobility, and skills have radically changed. In particular, the economy now links the global with the local, and capitalism has shifted from the fordist model, dominant through much of the twentieth century, to a newer, “fast” model.

• Classics and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century Historically Black Colleges

  Susan C. Jarratt

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  Abstract: In the post-Civil War United States, several historically black colleges gave a central role to classical rhetoric in their curricula, and many of their students used its concepts to develop a distinctly black, oppositional public sphere.

• Reflections on Lincoln and English Studies

  Douglas L. Wilson, Steven Mailloux, Nan Johnson, John Stauffer, Tony Wolk, and John Schilb

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  Abstract: Acknowledging that 2009 is the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, several scholars argue that Abraham Lincoln has played or can play an important role in the college English curriculum.

• Opinion: Composition Studies Saves the World!

  Patricia Bizzell

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  Abstract: Challenging the thesis of Stanley Fish’s recent book Save the World on Your Own Time, the author argues that political awareness was vital to the development of a productive basic writing pedagogy, and that composition teachers can responsibly work from their own political values in the classroom.

• Review: Space, Place, and the Public Face of Composition

  Jordynn Jack

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  Abstract: Reviewed are Making Writing Matter: Composition in the Engaged University by Ann Feldman; City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America by David Fleming; and Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World by Nancy Welch.

• Comment & Response: Comments on Creative Writing in the Twenty-first Century

  Anna Leahy, Catherine Brady, Tim Laquintano, Carl Vandermeulen / Tim Mayers, Kelly Ritter, Stephanie Vanderslice

• Announcements and Calls for Papers

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