What is the CRLS Reading Group?

The CRLS (Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies) Reading Group is a space–face-to-face monthly meetings and a blog–to discuss on-going issues in teaching Composition and Rhetoric at Kutztown University. In the midst of our heavy teaching load, it’s often difficult to find the time to discuss issues that arise in our classes and how we think about teaching writing, our goals, and the role of Composition in the University and the world beyond. We hope the CRLS Reading Group and blog will be spaces where we can come together and reflect, vent, theorize, and develop our teaching.

The CRLS Reading Group meets the second Thursday of every month from 11am-12pm in 203 Lytle Hall.

Texts added for the 2008-2009 academic year

  • Kathleen Blake Yancy’s, “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key.”
  • Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle, “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning ‘First-Year Composition’ as ‘Introduction to Writing Studies’.”
  • Jonathan Alexander, “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body.”
  • Nancy Welch, “Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Post-Publicity Era.”
  • Min-Zhan Lu, “An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.”
  • Donna LeCourt, “Performing Working-Class Identity in Composition: Toward a Pedagogy of Textual Practice.”

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