Refiguring English Studies

The Refiguring English Studies series provides a forum for scholarship on English studies as a discipline, a profession, and a vocation. To that end, the series publishes historical work that considers the way in which English studies has constructed itself and its objects of study; investigations of the relationships among its constituent parts as conceived in both disciplinary and institutional terms; and examinations of the role the discipline has played or should play in the larger society and public policy.

In addition, the series seeks to feature studies that, by their form or focus, challenge our notions about how the written "work" of English can or should be done and to feature writings that represent the professional lives of the discipline's members in both traditional and nontraditional settings. The series also includes scholarship that considers the discipline's possible futures or that draws upon work in other disciplines to shed light on developments in English studies.

Titles currently available are noted below:

Anderson, Charles M., and Marian M. MacCurdy, editors. Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice. 2000. No. 58609.

Bergmann, Linda S., and Edith M. Baker, editors. Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education. 2006. No. 08075.

Downing, David B., editor. Changing Classroom Practices: Resources for Literary and Cultural Studies. 1994. No. 05289.

Gallagher, Chris. Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive Pedagogy. 2002. No. 38160.

Grobman, Laurie. Multicultural Hybridity: Transforming American Literary Scholarship and Pedagogy. 2007. No. 54977.

Herrington, Anne J., and Marcia Curtis. Persons in Process: Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College. 2000. No. 35129.

Horner, Bruce, and Min-Zhan Lu.  Representing the “Other:” Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing.  1998.  No. 41153.

Lee, Amy. Composing Critical Pedagogies: Teaching Writing as Revision. 2000. No. 30402.

Maher, Jane. Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work. 1997. No. 50292.

Misson, Ray, and Wendy Morgan. Critical Literacy and the Aesthetic: Transforming the English Classroom. 2006. No. 49510.

Owens, Derek. Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation. 2001. No. 00376.

Parks, Stephen. Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language. 2000. No. 06781.

Rasula, Jed. The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990. 1995. No. 01380.

Staunton, John A. Deranging English/Education: Teacher Inquiry, Literary Studies, and Hybrid Visions of “English” for 21st Century Schools. 2008. No. 10836.

Stenberg, Shari J.  Professing and Pedagogy: Learning the Teaching of English.  2005.  No.37415.

Yagelski, Robert P., and Scott A. Leonard, editors. The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives. 2002. No. 39892.