Toward a Transnational University: WAC/WID Across Borders of Language, Nation, and Discipline

Toward a Transnational University: WAC/WID Across Borders of Language, Nation, and Discipline examines how approaches to postsecondary writing instruction travel and, in the process, transform the transnational and translingual character of universities worldwide.

Edited by Jonathan Hall and Bruce Horner, the chapters in this collection investigate, in multiple contexts around the world, the challenges, opportunities, and ambiguities that arise when mobility is taken as their foundation.

Writing from a wide range of locations—including Bangladesh, Canada, China, Japan, Nepal, Qatar, and the United States—the contributors to Toward a Transnational University examine the friction points by which particular approaches to academic writing and its teaching are translated and interact with local cultures and concerns. Together, they show how institutions of higher education are engaging the mobility and fluidity of academic writing, its teaching, and its learning.

This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Jonathan, Bruce, and the authors of the chapters in the collection for their work on the book and for their decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.