Sites of Writing: Essays in Honor of Anne Ruggles Gere
Edited by James Edward Beitler and Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Copy edited by Karen Peirce. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
Sites of Writing builds upon the multiple contributions of Anne Ruggles Gere across a long and highly productive career. The chapters in this edited collection, written by leading scholars (including some of Gere’s former students) to track her major contributions to writing studies, situate those contributions within the broader landscape of field development, and draw on those findings to assess important trends and project productive pathways for the future. The contributors to the collection consider disciplinary history, language and literacy, writing across the curriculum, digital rhetoric, writing’s extracurriculum, assessment, and English education, among other areas. Connecting these multiple fields of activity, Sites of Writing affirms Gere’s view of writing as a powerful social and cultural activity and of literacy, broadly conceived, as enabling cultural transformations and, in the process, transforming writing studies and other fields.
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Introduction: Learning, Justice, and Collaboration in Our Writing Sites, James Edward Beitler and Sarah Ruffing Robbins
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Part 1. Framing Our Fieldwork
Chapter 1. Anne Ruggles Gere: An English Studies Scholar Par Excellence, Ellen Cushman
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Chapter 2. Thirty Years After Into the Field, Douglas Hesse
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Chapter 3. Rescuing Reading: Centering Real Readers, Lizzie Hutton
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Chapter 4. Language, Literacy, and the Intersections of Identity, Morris Young
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Part 2. Learning from Language and Linguistics
Chapter 5. Dakota Language, Rhetorical Sovereignty, and the Ineffable Influence of Anne Ruggles Gere on English Studies, Kel Sassi
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Chapter 6. Language Knowledge and Linguistic Justice, Laura Aull
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Chapter 7. Re-visioning the Role of “Grammar” in Writing Studies, Anne Curzan
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Part 3. Disciplinary-Crossing Dynamics
Chapter 8. Writing to Learn and Think Critically in STEM: Engaging Students in Disciplinary Knowledge and Practices, Mike Palmquist
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Chapter 9. STEM Courses as Sites of Writing: Students’ Disciplinary Experiences with Writing-to-Learn Assignments, Ginger Shultz, Amber J. Dood, and Solaire A. Finkenstaedt-Quinn
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Chapter 10. Sites of Digital Writing and Community: Anne Gere and the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, Naomi Silver
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Part 4. Engaging the Extracurriculum
Chapter 11. Phenomenal Women Gettin’ It Right in the Extracurriculum, Beverly J. Moss
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Chapter 12. Laying the Matter on the Table: Composing Kitchen Judaism, Rona Kaufman
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Chapter 13. “Now I Think with My Own Mind”: Malcolm X, Epistemic Disobedience, and the Extracurriculum, Elizabeth Vander Lei
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Part 5. Advancing Assessment
Chapter 14. The Extracurriculum of Writing Assessment, J. W. Hammond
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Chapter 15. Toward a More Human Approach to Assessment, Jathan Day, Naitnaphit Limlamai, and Emily Wilson
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Chapter 16. The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Review, Shirley K Rose, Deborah H. Holdstein, Chris Anson, Chris Thaiss, and Kathleen Blake Yancey
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Part 6. Enriching English Education
Chapter 17. The Readiness is Not All: Strengthening the Bridge from High School to College Reading and Writing, Christine Farris
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Chapter 18. Writing Through the Complexities of Culturally Responsive Teacher Education, Jennifer Buehler
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Chapter 19. “Changing with the Times”: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Anne Ruggles Gere in Conversation, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Anne Ruggles Gere
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Part 7. Rhetorics of Renewal
Chapter 20. Making the Case for Reading and Writing and Teaching and Research, Paula M. Krebs
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Chapter 21. Listening, When the Listening Is Hard, Cheryl Glenn and Heather Brook Adams
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Chapter 22. Intimate Practices for Neoliberal and Pandemic Times, Margaret K. Willard-Traub and Deborah Minter
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Chapter 23. For Sites Both Sacred and Secular: Composing a Language to Bridge Spiritual Identity and Rhetorical Practice, Heather Thomson-Bunn
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Part 8. Reflections and Recollections
Chapter 24. The Space between Butter and Salt, Jennifer Sinor
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Chapter 25. Memories, Victor Villanueva
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Coda, Anne Ruggles Gere
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About the Editors
James Edward Beitler is Director of the Marion E. Wade Center and Professor of English at Wheaton College, where he holds the Marion E. Wade Chair of Christian Thought. He is the author of three books: Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words (with Richard Hughes Gibson, IVP Academic, 2020), Seasoned Speech: Rhetoric in the Life of the Church (IVP Academic, 2019), and Remaking Transitional Justice in the United States: The Rhetorical Authorization of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Springer, 2013).
Sarah Ruffing Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of ten academic books, beginning with the ALA/Choice-honored monograph, Managing Literacy, Mothering America (Pitt Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 2004), the award-winning critical edition of Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola (Parlor Press, 2011) with historian Ann Pullen, and, more recently, her co-edited teaching anthology, Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776–1920(Edinburgh UP, 2022). She was founding director of northwest Georgia’s National Writing Project site, the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, and has directed numerous grant-funded public humanities programs placing writing at the center of shared cultural work. She regularly collaborates with students and community members in web-based writing in connection with public projects, as in the The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters initiative and the Teaching Transatlanticism online anthology. She co-edits Edinburgh University Press’s book series, Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Publication Information: Beitler, James Edward, & Sarah Ruffing Robbins (Eds.). (2025). Sites of Writing: Essays in Honor of Anne Ruggles Gere. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2025.2456
Web Publication Date: May 5, 2025
Print Publication Date: Pending
ISBN: 978-1-64215-245-6 (PDF) 978-1-64215-246-3 (ePub) 978-1-64642-728-4 (pbk.)
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2025.2456
Contact Information:
James Edward Beitler: jim.beitler@wheaton.edu
Sarah Ruffing Robbins: s.robbins@tcu.edu
Perspectives on Writing
Series Editors: Rich Rice, Texas Tech University, and J. Michael Rifenburg, University of North Georgia
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