Published Books by Alumni

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Katherine S. Flowers

Making English Official: Writing and Resisting Local Language Policy (2024)
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Kim Hensley-Owens

Beyond Productivity: Embodied, Situated, and (Un)Balanced Faculty Writing Processes (2023)
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Amber M. Buck

Writing on the Social Network: Digital Literacy Practices in Social Media's First Decade (2023)
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Christa J. Olson

American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States (2021)
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Jonathan Stone

Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s (2021)
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Karen J. Lunsford and James P. Purdy

The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making (2020)
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Patrick W. Berry

Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison (2017)
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Steven Fraiberg

Inventing the World Grant University: Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities (with Ziqiao Wang and Xiaoye You, 2017)
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Christa J. Olson

Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador (2016)
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Kim Hensley Owens

Writing Childbirth: Women’s Rhetorical Agency in Labor and Online (2015)
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Amy J. Wan

Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (2014)
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Steve Lamos

Interests and Opportunities: Race, Racism, and University Writing Instruction in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2011)
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Jody Shipka

Toward a Composition Made Whole (2011)