Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition
- Editors: Christiane Donahue, Bruce Horner
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2022
- ISBN: 9781603296007 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603295994 (Hardcover)
Transnational composition is a site for engaging with difference across populations, economies, languages, and borders and for asking how cultures, languages, and national imaginaries interanimate one another.
Organized in three parts, the book addresses the transnational in composition in scholarship, teaching, and administration. It brings together contributions from institutional, geopolitical, and cultural contexts ranging across North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Caribbean and covers writing in English, Chinese, multiple European languages, Latin American Spanish, African and West Indian Creoles, and Guianan French. Exploring the relationship among transnational, international, global, and translingual approaches to composition—while complicating the term composition itself—essays draw on theories of border work, mobility, liminality, cross-border interaction, center-periphery contours, superdiversity, and transnational rhetoric and address, among other topics, models of cognitive processing, principles of universal design, and frames of critical literacy awareness.
Acknowledgments (ix)
Introduction: Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition (1)
Part One: Transnationality in Composition Scholarship
The Unequal Distribution of Research Roles in Transnational Composition: Toward Illegitimate Peripheral Participation (17)
Productive Frictions of Transnational Composition Research: Voices from Serbia, Lebanon, and the United States (34)
The Role of English in Transnational Higher Education: Reframing Expectations (52)
Writing Process Research and the Making of Disciplinary Expertise in Writing Centers in German-Speaking Countries (69)
“The Whole World Is [Not Yet] Here”: Exchanging Composition with East Africa (91)
Chinese Cross-Border Postgraduate Students’ WeChat Subscription Account Posts (109)
Part Two: Transnational Teaching of Composition
The Place of Transnational and Immigrant African Students in US Composition (133)
Teaching Multilingual Academic Discourse at the University of Luxembourg (150)
Transnational Opportunities and Challenges within the European Union’s Erasmus+ Student Exchange Program (168)
Feeling “Whole-some”: How Transnational Writing Can Mend Literate Fragmentation (190)
Developing Transnational Composition Pedagogies Locally and Globally Using Digital Platforms (207)
Part Three: Transnational Writing Program Administration
When the Writing Program Farm Is a Former Plantation: Transnational Writing Program Administration in the Anglophone Caribbean (227)
Transnational Writing Program Administration in Latin America (243)
The Writing-Enriched Curriculum: Transnational Prospects and Challenges (263)
Labor, Liminality, and Precarity in Transnational Writing Program Administration (287)
Queens Is the Future: Writing Program Administration Horizons for Transnational Spaces (305)
Transnational Curriculum Design for Intercultural Learning in Writing Programs (323)
Afterword: Continuing a Critical Conversation (343)
Notes on Contributors (351)
