Cultivating the Scavenger: A Queerer Feminist Future for Composition and Rhetoric

Peitho Volume 18 Issue 1 Fall/Winter 2015

Author(s): Stacey Waite

Abstract: This essay argues for and enacts queer and disruptive possibilities for the teaching of writing and for the production of writing itself. Drawing from feminist scholarship and from Judith Halberstam’s assertion that queer methodologies are “scavenger methodologies,” the essay explores potential outcomes for scholars and students as they engage with unconventional composing processes and as they imagine and write the future of Composition and Rhetoric in queerer ways.

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Tags: composition, disruption, feminist, pedagogy, queer theory