Teaching through the archives: text, collaboration, and activism

Abstract

"Teaching Through the Archives explores how working in the archives can foster rhetorical awareness and enhance rhetorical strategies; how archival work can support social change, activism, and community engagement; and how archivists, instructors, and community organizations can establish mutually beneficial relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Foreword: The Archives of Epistemic Possibility / Ryan Skinnell -- A Critical Introduction : Teaching Rhetoric and Composition Through the Archives / Wendy Hayden and Tarez Samra Graham -- Section I. Archives as Text. 1. Using the Archives to Teach Slow Research and Create Local Connections / Lisa Mastrangelo ; 2. Cultivating a Feminist Consciousness in the University Archive / Lisa Shaver ; 3. Arranging Our Emotions : Archival Affects and Emotional Responses / Jane Greer ; 4. Creative Storytelling : Archives as Sites for Nonfiction Research and Writing / Katherine E. Tirabassi ; 5. Assembled Trajectories, Perishable Performances, and Teaching from the Harvard Archives / James P. Beasley -- Section II. Archives as Collaboration. 6. Internships as Techne : Teaching the Archive through the Museum of Everyday Writing / Jennifer Enoch, Megan Keaton, Ellen Cecil-Lemkin, and Travis Maynard ; 7. Listening Rhetorically to Build Collaboration and Community in the Archives / Shirley K. Rose, Glenn C.W. Newman, and Robert P. Spindler ; 8. Recursion and Responsiveness : Archival Pedagogy and Archival Infrastructures in the Same Conversation / Jenna Morton-Aiken and Robert Schwegler ; 9. <Ex>Tending Archives : Digital Archival Practices and Making the Work of Technical Communicators Visible to Students / Erin Brock Carlson, Michelle McMullin, and Patricia Sullivan ; 10. Professional Writing for the Archives : Collaboration and Service Learning in a Proposal Writing Class / Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, and Laura Kissel -- Section III. Archives as Activism. 11. Delinking Student Perceptions of Place with/in the University Archive / Laura Proszak and Ellen Cushman ; 12. Archives as Resources for Ethical In(ter)vention in Community-Based Writing / Michael-John DePalma ; 13. Learning to (Re)Compose Identities : Creating and Indexing the JHFE Jewish Kentucky Oral History Repository with Undergraduate Researchers and Jewish Rhetorical Practices / Janice W. Fernheimer, Beth L. Goldstein, Sarah Dorpinghaus, and Douglas A. Boyd ; 14. "Flagged for Deletion" : Wikipedia, the Federal Writers' Project, and First-Year Composition / Courtney Rivard ; 15. Is Anyone Sitting Here? : Mirroring Gaillet's "Survival Steps" in a Community-Based, Justice-Focused Classroom / Jeanne Law-Bohannon and Shiloh Gill Garcia ; 16. "Loving Blackness" as a First-Year Composition Student Learning Outcome in the Archives / Michelle S. Hite, Tiffany Atwater Lee, Holly A. Smith, and Andrea Jackson Gavin -- Afterward: Why Teach Through the Archives? / Lynée Lewis Gaillet and Katherine H. Adams -- Appendix A: "Creative Storytelling" : Creative Nonfiction Archival Research Project -- Appendix B: ENC 6700 Studies in Composition Theory -- Appendix C: Documents Illustrating the IHR Workshop Process -- Appendix D: Spelman College English Composition Shared Student Learning Outcomes.