The CEA Forum
Winter/Spring 2006: 35.1
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Table of Contents
Articles
Jill Y. Gold Wright / Monstrous No More: How Shakespeare's Caliban and the Community College Student Aspire Together
"Many students enter our classes like Caliban, knowing books to be powerful but feeling eluded by them, unable to access their knowledge..." (read more)
Michael J. Kiskis / Agonizing Poe
"You are preoccupied with physical horror when the society in which you live focuses only on horrific images and shadowy threat and shies away from the deeper questions..." (read more)
Maximilian Werner / Rhetoric in Reality: Postmodernism Viewed from Outer Space
"In spite of humanity's delusions to the contrary, we face a time of unparalleled environmental and social stress. This tells me that our current narratives, whether ideological or religious, have failed..." (read more)
From the Classroom
Elly Williams / A Study of Family Memoir and Ideologies of Gender: Application to the Intersection of the Creative and the Scholarly in the Writing Classroom (read more)Special Section: Region(s)
Sheryl Stevenson / Postcolonial Appalachia: Bhabha, Bakhtin, and Diane Gilliam Fisher's Kettle Bottom
"Fisher's dramatic poetic sequence rivets the attention of students, but the book's many voices also illustrate postcolonial theory, in that the poems present regional culture as a multicultural mix created by conflicting discourses, sites of cultural encounters within a globalized region..." (read more)
Beth Widmaier Capo / Teaching Illinois: Developing a Course on State Literature
"When researching state literature you will no doubt find, as I did, many works that shed a new light on local history, people, and places, yet are part of no official curriculum..." (read more)
Margaret Davis / What Then Is the American, This New Man?
"Our study, beginning with the earliest stories of inhabitants of this land and moving through narratives from all sectors of those who came here seeking to discern what it means to call oneself 'American,' affords a rich base from which to move into the community as classroom..." (read more)
Columns
Kathryn Miles / Service Stations
"To volunteer is to give of one's self without interest or expectation of return. That's never -- or at least rarely -- what we want in an English course..." (read more)
Colin Irvine / Making Lemonade: An Assistant English Professor's Perspective on the Profession
"In essence, if I could find a shorter, more pleasant route through academic purgatory I wouldn't hesitate to follow it, especially if it meant helping me reconnect with my confidence..." (read more)
Reviews
C. D. Albin / Review of Tracing the Essay: Through Experience to Truth by G. Douglas Atkins (read more)
Kathryn Miles / Review of Writing Environments edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Christopher J. Keller (read more)
Elizabeth Fleitz / Review of Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences edited by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard Haswell (read more)
Yvonne R Schultz / The Garden at Night: Burnout & Breakdown in the Teaching Life by Mary Rose O'Reilley (read more)
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