Queering the conflicts: What LGBT students can teach us in the classroom and online

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students need to develop successful rhetorical strategies for dealing with the conflicts that education, community, and society impose upon them. Webbed writing environments provide a place where LGBT students can prepare to deal with those conflicts by: (a) challenging one another, (b) interrogating course plans and materials, and (c) collaborating responses to homophobic discourse. LGBT students more readily construct and rehearse rhetorical strategies online, because they feel freer to represent their sexualities, without the complications or inhibitions that real-time, in-person conversation imposes. However, these strategies are not as productive if LGBT students don’t also get the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and critique their online activity face-to-face, in anticipation of the writing and speaking tasks that they must perform in much less hospitable public environments

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JAEPL, Vol. 23, Winter 2017-2018

Editors’ Parting Message Essays The Politics of Consciousness, Kurt Spellmeyer Writing, Silence, and Well-being, Robert P. Yagelski Writing as a Liberal Art in an Age Neither Artful nor Liberal, Douglas Hesse The Tyranny of ‘Best Practices,’ Roger Thompson SPECIAL SECTION: TEACHING AND LEARNING AS BODILY ARTS Corporal Pedagogies: An Introduction, Wendy Ryden Embodied Databases: Attending to Research ‘Places’ through Emotion and Movement, Kati Fargo Ahern Embodied Ethos and a Pedagogy of Presence: Reflections from a Writing Yogi, Christy I. Wenger Rhetorics of Reflection: Revisiting Listening Rhetoric through Mindfulness, Empathy, and Non-Violent Communication, Renea Frey Performance and the Possible: Embodiment, Privilege, and the Politics of Teaching Writing, Lesley Erin Bartlett Un/learning Habituation of Body-Mind Binary through the Teaching/Learning Body/Mind, Jeong-eun Rhee, Stephanie L. Curley, and Sharon Subreenduth Book Reviews Looking for Solace, Irene Papoulis Golub, Adam, and Heather Richardson Hayton, eds. Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2017, Wendy Ryden Waite, Stacey. Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowledge. Pittsburgh, PA: U of PA Press, 2017, Mark McBeth Eodice, Michele, Anne Ellen Geller, and Neal Lerner. The Meaningful Writing Project: Learning, Teaching, and Writing in Higher Education. Boulder, CO: Utah State UP, 2016, Mary Pigliacelli Connecting The Emotional Labor of Our Work, Christy I. Wenger Interdisciplinary Dangers: A Small Caveat, W. Keith Duffy One Mindful Step, Sheila M. Kennedy and Jen Consilio The Way to the Falls, Carl Vandermeulen A Good Rain, Robert Randolp

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JAEPL, Vol. 22, Winter 2016-2017

Editors’ Message Essays SPECIAL SECTION: DEEP READING STRATEGIES Jane Thompkins - Deep Reading Vajra Watson - Life as Primary Text: English Classrooms as Sites for Soulful Learning Tisha Ulmer - Using Pre-reading Strategies to Provide Historical Context in a Literature Course Grace Wetzel - ‘The Most Peaceful I Ever Felt Writing’: A Contemplative Approach to Essay Revision TEACHING AND LEARNING Kate Chaterdon - Contemplative Neuroscience and the Teaching of Writing: Mindfulness as Mental Training Ondine Gage - Resisting a Restrictive Discourse Policy J. Michael Rifenburg - The Performance of Literate Practices: Rhetoric, Writing, and Stand-up Comedy Rosanne Carlo - Getting Centered: A Meditation on Creating Pottery and Teaching Writing Robbie Clifton Pinter - The Transformative Practice of Writing and Teaching Writing Out of the Box Pamela B. Childers - Rattling Cages Book Reviews Julie Nichols - Threshold Concepts. Brad E. Lucas, et al. - Adler-Kassner, Linda, and Elizabeth Wardle, eds. Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015. Maureen Hall - Waxler, Robert P. The Risk of Reading: How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Gae Lyn Henderson--Goodson, Ivor, and Scherto Gill. Critical Narrative as Pedagogy. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. Connecting Christy Wenger—Risks and Rewards of Purposeful Vulnerability Christina Martorana - Embracing Vulnerability in Teaching Jacquelyn E. Hoerman-Elliot - Writing as a Sea of Oms: A “This I Believe” Essay for Contemplative Writing in First-Year Composition Beth Godbee and Adrianne Wojcik - Decoding Each Other through Coding: Sharing Our Unlikely Research Collaboration Laurence Musgrove—Dress Up Laurence Musgrove—Tree

JAEPL, Vol. 19, Winter 2013-2014

Essays Peter Elbow - Using Careless Speech for Careful, Well-Crafted Writing - Whatever Its Style Keith Rhodes & Monica M. Robinson - Sheep in Wolves\u27 Clothing: How Composition\u27s Social Construction Reinstates Expressivist Solipsism (And Even Current-Traditional Conservatism) Bradley Smith - The Journey Metaphor\u27s Entailments for Framing Learning Sarah Hochstetler - A Teacher\u27s Terminal Illness in the Secondary Classroom: The Effects of Disclosure Anna O. Soter - It\u27s (Not) Just a Figure of Speech: Rescuing a Metaphor Amy L. Eva, Carrie A. Bemis, Marie F. Quist, & Bill Hollands - The Power of the Poetic Lens: Why Teachers Need to Read Poems Together Ryan Crawford & Andreas Willhoff - Stillness in the Composition Classroom: Insight, Incubation, Improvisation, Flow, and Meditation Kathleen J. Cassity - Fear Not the Trunchbull: How Teaching from a Humorous Outlook Supports Transformative Learning Sharon Marshall - Thoughts on Teaching as a Practice of Love Out of the Box Ilene Dawn Alexander - Learning and Teaching in Other Ways Book Reviews Judy Halden-Sullivan - Making the Familiar Unfamiliar Karen Walker - Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011. Timothy Shea - Jobrack, Beverlee. Tyranny of the Textbook. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012. Julie Nichols - FitzGerald, William. Spiritual Modalities: Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2012. Edward Sullivan - Quesada, Donna. The Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers. NY: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. Connecting Helen Walker - Gratitude Bob Randolph - Poetry Teacher\u27s Prayer Leigh Ann Chow - What Teachers Carry Andrea Saylor - A Brief History of Holy Writing Jill Moyer Sunday - For My Students Kattie Hogan & Matt Ittig - Lines on the Body: Confronting Personal Experiences through Poetry John Patrick Cleary - New Teache

JAEPL, Vol. 21, Winter 2015-2016

Essays Fond Farewells: Judy Halden-Sullivan and Helen Walker SPECIAL SECTION: RHETORIC AND ETHICS John M. Duffy - Reconsidering Virtue Lois Agnew - Why Rhetoric and Ethics? Revisiting History/Revising Pedagogy Paula Mathieu - Being There: Mindfulness as Ethical Classroom Practice Scott Wagar - Composition as a Spiritual Discipline Erec Smith - Buddhism’s Pedagogical Contribution to Mindfulness Peter H. Khost - “Alas, Not Yours to Have”: Problems with Audience in High-Stakes Writing Tests and the Promise of Felt Sense TEACHING AND LEARNING Sheri Rysdam & Lisa Johnson-Shull - Introducing Feedforward: Renaming and Reframing Our Repertoire for Written Response Mark Noe - Autoethnography and Assimilation: Composing Border Stories Irene A. Lietz - “When Do I Cross the Street?” Roberta’s Guilty Reflection Karen Lee Osborne - Toward a Poetics and Pedagogy of Sound: Students as Production Engineers in the Literature Classroom Out of the Box Robert M. Randolph - My Mom’s Letter Final Journals Book Reviews Julie Nichols - Reading Ethically Peter Fields - Gregory Marshall. Shaped by Stories: The Ethical Power of Narratives. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P., 2009 Walter L. Reed - Gregory, Marshall. Teaching Excellence in Higher Education, ed. Melissa Valiska Gregory. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Jeffrey H. Taylor - Musgrove, Laurence. Local Bird. Beaumont, TX: Lamar U Press, 2015 Warren Hatch - Lynch, Tom, Cheryll Glotfelty, Karla Armbruster. The Bioregional Imagination—Literature, Ecology, and Place. Athens, GA: U of GA Press, 2012 Connecting Helen Walker - More Apt, Connected Title Sheryl Lain - Hey, Teach! Do You Love Me? Matthew B. Ittig - Ask Me Tomorrow Laurence Musgrove - Writing Program Julie O’Connell - The Power of a Slave Narrative Leslie A. Werden - Embracing Chaos Donna Souder-Hodge - Teaching Dachau Tanya R. Cochran, Rasha Diab, Thomas Ferrel, & Beth Godbee - Hanging Out: Cultivating Life-Giving Writing Groups Onlin

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