Identity Papers : Literacy and Power in Higher Education / / edited by Bronwyn T. Williams.

• TeilnehmendeR: Williams, Bronwyn T.
• Place / Publishing House: Logan, UT : : Utah State University Press,, 2006.; ©2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

How do definitions of literacy in the academy, and the pedagogies that reinforce such definitions, influence and shape our identities as teachers, scholars, and students? The contributors gathered here reflect on those moments when the dominant cultural and institutional definitions of our identities conflict with our other identities, shaped by class, race, gender, sexual orientation, location, or other cultural factors. These writers explore the struggle, identify the sources of conflict, and discuss how they respond personally to such tensions in their scholarship, teaching,

Table of Contents

Introduction: literacy, power, and the shaping of identity / Bronwyn T. Williams -- Institutions and struggles for identity -- Social class as discourse: the construction of subjectivities in English / James Zebroski -- Excellence is the name of the (ideological) game / Patricia Harkin -- The feminist WPA project: fear and possibility in the feminist "home" / Shannon Carter -- When "MS. Mentor" misses the mark: literacy and lesbian identity in the academy / Tara Pauliny -- Identity in the composition classroom -- She toiled for a living: writing lives and identities of older female students / Mary Hallet -- Literacy, identity, and the "successful" student writer / William Carpenter and Bianca Falbo -- Speaking from the borderlands: exploring narratives of teacher identity / Janet Alsup -- "Who are they and what do they have to do with what i want to be?" the writing of multicultural identity and college success stories for first-year writers / James R. Ottery -- Identity outside the institutional walls -- Migratory and regional identity / Robert Brooke -- Some trouble with discourses: what conflicts between subjects and ethnographers tell us about what students don't/won't/can't say / Sally Chandler -- Composing (identity) in a posttraumatic age / Lynn Worsham -- Conclusion: working bodies: class matters in college composition / Min-zhan Lu.