The purpose of this study is to examine how first year writing teachers' histories and experiences affect teacher agency negotiation in their classrooms. Five qualitativ[...]

This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student w[...]

Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et a[...]

Previously, improvisation has served as a term for describing a quality of the action taking place in classrooms between teachers and students. This project begins to th[...]

Michel Foucault argues that power is everywhere, all of the time. He describes it as concrete, "capillary," acting in, on and through the actual body. All "knowledge" a[...]