CI 565

Spring 2021

Part of Term 1
Jan 25-May 5
Topics Research and Writing
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 582. See ENGL 582.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
32284
Online
E
1:00PM -3:50PM
M
n.a.
Mortensen, P
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/25/21-05/05/21
Section Title:
History & Historiography
Section Info:
Topic: History and Historiography in Writing Studies - Like any emergent field of academic inquiry, writing studies discovered early on the need for a backstory. In the 1980s, a number of scholars obliged. For the most part, their focus was college composition beginning in the American nineteenth century, and their histories told of honorable attachments to ancient rhetorical traditions, complicated by a vexed relationship with belletrism. But what of those who never took college composition because they couldn’t—because they weren’t young white men of privilege? We will examine various answers to this question—especially the most disruptive ones—starting with scholarship published in the 1990s and moving forward to the present. In so doing, we will construct a history of histories in our field, one that attends carefully to the theories and methods that discipline what we claim to know about the past. Seminar participants can expect on occasion to lead discussion of an assigned book or article, and periodically to draft responses to assigned readings. The seminar’s major writing project can either extend a line of inquiry begun in another seminar or open a new one.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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