In Print

Laura Micciche co-edited, with Dale Jacobs, a collection of original essays titled A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies with a foreword by Peter Elbow.  The book was published in September 2003 by Boynton/Cook for the CrossCurrents Series, which "spotlights emerging voices in the field of rhetoric and composition."  A Way to Move, according to Micciche, "challenges the way we think about emotion in professional life.  Contributors name and interpret affective dimensions of their work, making visible the ways in which emotion structures and is structured by our professional locations in classrooms, English departments, universities."  Also, Micciche's essay, "The Role of Edited Collections in Composition Studies," was published in Composition Forum: A Journal of Pedagogical Theory in Rhetoric and Composition 12.2 (2001).  Due to a publishing backlog, the volume was actually published in Summer 2003. The essay examines the important, though overlooked, role that edited collections have played in the development of Composition's identity as a discipline.  Micciche comments, "I limit my focus to the book series produced by four influential presses: NCTE, SIUP, MLA, and Boynton/Cook. I'm particularly interested in what the proliferation of edited collections can tell us about the ideology of scholarship in a moment marked by decreasing faculty resources, increasing tenure requirements, and heavy teaching assignments and administrative duties."

Ellen Arnold edited a special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures 15.1 (2003) in honor of Osage poet and medieval scholar Carter Revard, Professor Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.  The issue contains an address by Revard, conference papers and critical essays on his poetry, personal tributes, poems inspired by Revard, and a collection of email "favorites" authored by Revard submitted by members of the ASAIL discussion list.  Included in the issue is Arnold's essay, "Worlds Into Words:  The Technology of Language in Carter's Revard's Poetry," which focuses on the long poem "Transfigurations" by Revard, published for the first time in the issue.

William Banks's essay, "Teaching Through the Body: Disruptions and 'Personal' Writing," appeared in College English 66 (Sept. 2003). Banks's essay "discusses the ways in which 'personal narrative' can be productive in classrooms.  Rather than dismiss the 'personal' as ideologically unsophisticated, I argue that teaching which encourages students to think of the socio-cultural implications of their lives; such complicated work can lead to more complex student texts."  Also, Banks's "Avoiding Plagiarism at Illinois State" was published in The CATalyst: Newsletter from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching from Illinois State University, Normal, IL, (Summer 2003).

English major Joy Whitaker's Countless Blessings: Inspirational Stories and Activities for Parents and Children! was published by Koala Branch, Sept. (2003).

Wendy Sharer coauthored, with Eve Wiederhold, Flex Files for Instructors, a teaching manual to accompany The Writer's Harbrace Handbook (Heinle, 2003).  The manual includes ten chapters that discuss issues in composition pedagogy and over one hundred pages of sample handouts, exercises, and assignment ideas.

Tom Shields's review essay,"Obsession and Loss: New Works on Roanoke and the 'Lost Colony,'" appeared in the 2003 issue of NCLR.  Shields reviews four recent works on the 1580s Roanoke expeditions: Marjorie Hudson's Searching for Virginia Dare: A Fool's Errand published by Coastal Carolina Press (2002); Phil Jones's Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America: the Lost Settlement of Roanoke 1584-1590 published by Tempus (2001); Lee Miller's Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony published by Jonathan Cape (2000); and Giles Milton's Big Chief Elizabeth: the Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2000).  Also, Shields's 1990 essay, "Ink, Blood and Kisses: La casa de los espíritus and the Myth of Disunity," has been reprinted in the volume Isabel Allende (2003) in Bloom's Modern Critical Views series edited by Harold Bloom.

Bryan Oesterreich's essay on Wilmington artist Claude Howell appears in the November issue of Our State.  Claude Howell (1915-1997) was a talented artist, academic, and teacher.  Howell said he painted "to study light, space, and color -- not to make any social or moral statements."  Oesterreich comments, "He has been called the father of the arts in Wilmington's ascension from a city without a gallery to a thriving community of artists that continues to flourish after his passing.  Many consider him to be the most important figure in native North Carolina art.  Among his many achievements, Howell created the art department at Wilmington College (now UNCW) in 1953."

Seodial Deena's abstract, "The Centrality of Caribbean Literature Depicting Postcolonial and Multicultural Preoccupations," was published in the Abstracts of the XXII Annual West Indian Literature Conference, edited by Sandra Pouchet Paquet and published by the University of Miami Press, 2003.

Roger Schlobin's essay, "She Will Live Again!," was published in The Z Experience November/December (2002). Schlobin discusses "the trials & tribulations of installing a vintage turbocharger on a 1977 Datsun 280Z."