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Item “I Want You to Want Me Too”: Enacting Linguistic Justice in Language & Grammar Courses(Journal of Language & Literacy Education, 2023) Porcher, KishaThis manuscript uses Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics, The Heart Part 5, and my personal experiences teaching English Language Arts (secondary and English education), specifically grammar and language, to demonstrate the importance of linguistic justice (Baker-Bell, 2020a) in ELA classrooms. Baker-Bell’s (2020a) framework of linguistic justice is utilized as the foundation for being, learning and teaching in my grammar and language courses. Throughout this manuscript, I share narratives about my personal experiences teaching and researching as a way to reflect on ways to enact linguistic justice in English Education grammar courses. I interweave Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics to the song The Heart Part 5, to guide reflection and analysis of the practices I have used to enact linguistic justice in English education grammar courses. The manuscript concludes with best practices for ELA educators to enact linguistic justice in their classrooms.Item Introduction: (An Environing of this Book)(Punctum Books, 2016-02-12) Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome; Yates, JulianIN THE SPRING OF 2013, WE WERE INVITED TO PROPOSE A POSSIBLE session for the Shakespeare Association of America meeting in St. Louis for 2014. The SAA is an organization that, in addition to running paper panels at its annul conference, offers participants the opportunity to share work-in-progress through themed seminars. The two of us had been in conversation for some time about nonhumans, things, animal, vegetable, and mineral, medieval and renaissance, about questions of ecology, and how to craft nontraditional conversation and thinking spaces in which something unanticipated might unfold. We decided to collaborate to build a gathering that...Item Arctic-Oceanic New York(Punctum Books, 2015-09-18) Duckert, LowellI would that my name be carved on the tablets of the sea. —Letter from Henry Hudson to Richard Hakluyt Hudson achieved in 1609 nothing memorable, even by this new way. —Hessel Gerritz1 In the summer of 1609, under orders from theDutch East India...Item World Change/Sea Change(Oliphaunt Books, 2014-04-28) Duckert, Lowell; Mentz, SteveBIRD FUTURES In the future I want, I am a cormorant. A screeching sea- crow, I perch on a high branch on the Tree of Life over- looking Paradise. My eyes flare with greed, and with two senses of the word “want.” Things...Item Mood Change/Collective Change(Oliphaunt Books, 2014-04-28) Yates, Julian; Orlemanski, JulieMOOD CHANGE (JULIAN) for Vincent Gillespie, whose lessons still inspire 991. Here Ipswich was raided; and very soon after that Ealdorman Byrhtnoth was killed at Maldon, and in that year it was first decided tax be paid to the Danish...Item Recreation(Oliphaunt Books, 2014-09-23) Duckert, LowellIf you seek to create, love springs, fountains, precious stones, the high summits of mountains, the layers of the on- ion, the leaves of the artichoke, the look of the sea lion, ger- minal cells, children, all filled to bursting with information like blue supergiants. Michel Serres,...Item Shakespeare’s Kitchen Archives(Punctum Books, 2013-01-17) Yates, JulianThese words you are reading, some of which I read aloud once upon a speculatively medieval afternoon in New York City—and which I find myself compelled now to rewrite—what are they? What were they? And what have they become by their translation and so transformation from paper to essay, from colloquium to whichever media now hosts them? Perhaps, by their end, they will have the flavor of a manifesto. But if so, it will not be in the arch/modern sense that Bruno Latour sets to one side even as he attempts his own “Compositionist Manifesto.” There will be...Item Sheep Tracks: A Multi-Species Impression(Oliphaunt Books, 2012-05-07) Yates, JulianHere, in a postscript to Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida tells an autobiographical or pseudo-autobiographical story of how it is that he came to write these words. Covering his tracks as he appears to uncover them, back-tracking over the marks on paper that are now variously hosted in print and electronic media, he winks at us. Was he there on that rim, above that very volcano? Did his own mal’ d’archive lead him to a supposed origin—an origin that reduces his Neapolitan jaunts to a repetition compulsion? As we read them, Derrida’s tracks flicker in and out of being, and...Item Speaking Stones, John Muir, and a Slower (Non)humanities(Oliphaunt Books, 2012-05-07) Duckert, LowellBy the time you arrive at this point in the collection, you will have realized that the essays herein demand a slow reading. Perfect: the practice of tracing connections between actors, slowly, as Bruno Latour’s ant (or ANT, short for Actor Network Theory) would tell us, is the way to go. According to Latour’s self-defined “slowciology,” we are to follow the actors themselves—examining the relationships they assemble, interrupt, or disturb. Latour’s process is “agonizingly slow” by necessity.² Yet in writing my response, I find myself running down a fast lane. The time when these authors first presented their work...Item Revisiting SL in TPC Through Social Justice and Intercultural Frameworks: Findings From Survey Research(IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2022-06-28) Baniya, Sweta; Edwards, Jessica; Sano-Franchini, Jennifer; Walwema, JosephineBackground: This article reports on survey-based research of technical and professional communication (TPC) teachers and administrators, illustrating how these participants implement social justice and intercultural communication pedagogies in service learning (SL). Literature review: We situate this research in relation to existing scholarship about SL in TPC, SL and social justice, and SL as it intersects with intercultural communication. Research question: How do technical and professional communication teachers and administrators across the US infuse their SL pedagogies with social justice and intercultural communication theories in practice? Research methodology: Using purposive sampling, we surveyed 55 TPC teachers and administrators about their experiences with and attitudes toward social justice and intercultural communication in SL. Results/discussion: We identify what courses are reported as sites of SL projects as well as participants’ self-reported perceptions about social justice in SL. In addition, we outline four themes related to the application of social justice and intercultural communication theories to SL: activities, constraints, points of resistance, and goals and outcomes. Conclusion: We conclude with recommendations for TPC administrators and programs, and by briefly discussing implications for TPC practitioners and future directions for research.Item Black Women Imagining and Realizing Liberated Futures(Technical Communication Quarterly, 2022-04-30) Edwards, Jessica; Walwema, JosieIn the summer of 1881, a group of Black women formed The Washing Society of Atlanta by deploying extraorganizational technical communication to collectively bargain for better working conditions and wages. In this article, we illuminate the ways that Black women operated in a world dominated by an established order of racial hierarchy. We argue that the Washerwomen manifested a particular form of Black technical communication rooted in agency and advocacy.Item “Cornmeal Pancakes to Stave Off the Apocalypse”: Ordinary Food in “Poison” and Future Home of the Living God(Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2022-04-23) Stanley, B. JamiesonApocalyptic narratives have some pitfalls. Visions of “the end of the world” can discourage adaptive thinking and ignore that for many communities, the end of the world has already occurred or is ongoing. April Anson describes such narratives as “settler apocalypse”: “stories that tell of the end of the whole world but are, in reality, specific to white settlers,” whose colonialist-capitalist world is threatened by forces such as climate change (63). But what if one replaces “the end of the whole world” with “the end of a world”? As Jessica Hurley and Dan Sinykin suggest, “apocalypse is not singular and universal” but rather “plural and particular” (453). Apocalypses are culturally specific, and they can recur, disrupting the Western sense of a singular future event to be avoided.Item How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present(Textual Practice, 2021-10-07) Wasserman, SarahFor more than a decade, a mural on an exposed wall of the Kunsthaus Tacheles broadcast a question—or perhaps an existential sigh—over the streets of Berlin. ‘How Long is Now’ read the wall of the iconic art squat, which closed in 2012. The question is one that Mathias Nilges’ How to Read a Moment asks and answers through its study of the contemporary American Zeitroman, or time novel.