College English, Vol. 74, No. 2, November 2011

Table of Contents

• From the Editor

• Symposium: How I Have Changed My Mind

  Chris Anson, Marilyn Cooper, Gaurav Desai, Anne Ruggles Gere, Pamela Gilbert, Keith Gilyard, Joseph Harris, Valerie Lee, Susan Miller, Peter Mortensen, David Shumway, Nancy Sommers, Victor Vitanza

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  Abstract: Contributors to this symposium recall and reflect on changes of mind they have experienced, noting the relationship of these to larger concerns of English studies as a profession.

• Joseph V. Denney, the Land-Grant Mission, and Rhetorical Education at Ohio State: An Institutional History

  Annie S. Mendenhall

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  Abstract: Traditional narratives about composition and rhetoric in modern American universities need to be complicated through analyses of what has happened to these subjects at particular institutions. For a case study, the author examines Joseph Villiers Denney’s work in establishing and sustaining a department of rhetoric at The Ohio State University.

• College English’s Precursor: Excerpts from the College Edition of the English Journal

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  Abstract: In honor of NCTE’s centennial, we present excerpts from the College Edition of the English Journal, which ran from 1928 to 1938 and served as a precursor to College English.

• Review: Assent among Modern Indigenous Peoples

  Resa Crane Bizzaro

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  Abstract: Reviewed is X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent by Scott Richard Lyons.

• Announcements and Calls for Papers

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