Fall 2021
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9.1 (Fall 2022)
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9.1 Articles
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- Mark Houston, "Riding Out of Abstraction: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Re-materialization of Social Justice Rhetoric in “The Sacred and the Superfund”" (9.1)
- Ryan McIlvain, ""You Get to Decide What to Worship but Not What's Good": Rereading 'This Is Water'" (9.1)
- Quincy Gray McMichael, "Laboring toward Leisure: The Characterization of Work in Maine’s Back-to-the-Land Memoirs" (9.1)
- Aggie Stewart, "Bringing Dark Events to Light: Emotional Pacing in the Trauma Narrative" (9.1)
- Emma Winsor Wood, "A Lovely Woman Tapers Off into a Fish: Monstrosity in Montaigne’s Essais" (9.1)
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9.1 Conversations
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- Philip Newman Lawton, "Rousseau's Wandering Mind" (9.1)
- Claire Salinda, "Bodily Dissociation as a Female Coping Mechanism in The Shapeless Unease, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, and Girlhood" (9.1)
- Hannah White, "“Which sounds bad and maybe was”: A Study of Narrative in Beth Nguyen’s “Apparent”" (9.1)
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Archives
- Journal Index >
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1.1 (Fall 2014)
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- Editor's Note
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1.1 Articles
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- Sarah Heston, "Critical Memoir: A Recovery From Codes" (1.1)
- Andy Harper, "The Joke's On Me: The Role of Self-Deprecating Humor in Personal Narrative" (1.1)
- Ned Stuckey-French, "Our Queer Little Hybrid Thing" (1.1)
- Brian Nerney, "John McCarten’s ‘Irish Sketches’: The New Yorker’s ‘Other Ireland’ in the Early Years of the Troubles, 1968-1974" (1.1)
- Wendy Fontaine, "Where Memory Fails, Writing Prevails: Using Fallacies of Memory to Create Effective Memoir" (1.1)
- Scott Russell Morris, "The Idle Hours of Charles Doss, or The Essay As Freedom and Leisure" (1.1)
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1.2 (Spring 2015)
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1.2 Articles
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- Kelly Harwood, "Then and Now: A Study of Time Control in Scott Russell Sanders' 'Under the Influence'" (1.2)
- Diana Wilson, "Laces in the Corset: Structures of Poetry and Prose that Bind the Lyric Essay" (1.2)
- Randy Fertel, "A Taste For Chaos: Creative Nonfiction as Improvisation" (1.2)
- Lynn Z. Bloom, "Why the Worst Trips are the Best: The Comic Travails of Geoffrey Wolff & Jonathan Franzen" (1.2)
- Ingrid Sagor, "What Lies Beside Gold" (1.2)
- Catherine K. Buni, "Ego, Trip: On Self-Construction—and Destruction—in Creative Nonfiction" (1.2)
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1.2 Pedagogy
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- Steven Church, "The Blue Guide Project: Fresno" (1.2)
- Stephanie Vanderslice, "From Wordstar to the Blogosphere and Beyond: A Digital Literacy and Teaching Narrative (Epiphany Included)" (1.2)
- Jessica McCaughey, "That Snow Simply Didn’t Fall: How (and Why) to Frame the Personal Essay as a Critical Inquiry into Memory in the First-Year Writing Classroom" (1.2)
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1.2 Articles
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2.1 (Fall 2015)
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- Editor's Note2.1
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2.1 Articles
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- Daniel Nester, "Straddling the Working Class Memoir" (2.1)
- Sarah M. Wells, "The Memoir Inside the Essay Collection: Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth" (2.1)
- Chris Harding Thornton, "Ted Kooser's "Hands": On Amobae, Empathy, and Poetic Prose" (2.1)
- Steven Harvey & Ana Maria Spagna, "The Essay in Parts" (2.1)
- Megan Culhane Galbraith, "Animals as Aperture: How Three Essayists Use Animals to Convey Meaning and Emotion" (2.1)
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2.1 Conversations
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- Barrie Jean Borich, "Deep Portrait: On the Atmosphere of Nonfiction Character" (2.1)
- Tim Bascom, "As I See It: Art and the Personal Essay" (2.1)
- Adrian Koesters, "Because I Said So: Language Creation in Memoir" (2.1)
- Interview with Simmons Buntin (2.1)
- Mike Puican, "Narrative Disruption in Memoir" (2.1)
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2.1 Pedagogy
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- Bernice M. Olivas, "Politics of Identity in the Essay Tradition" (2.1)
- Ioanna Opidee, "Essaying Tragedy" (2.1)
- Crystal N. Fodrey, "Teaching CNF Writing to College Students: A Snapshot of CNF Pedagogical Scholarship" (2.1)
- W. Scott Olsen, "Teaching Adventure, Exploration and Risk" (2.1)
- Christian Exoo & Sydney Fallon, "Using CNF to Teach the Realities of Sexual Assault to First Responders: An Annotated Bibliography" (2.1)
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2.2 (Spring 2016)
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2.2 Articles
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- Micah McCrary, "A Legacy of Whiteness: Reading and Teaching Eula Biss’s Notes from No Man’s Land" (2.2)
- Marco Wilkinson, "Self-Speaking World" (2.2)
- Miles Harvey, "We Are All Travel Writers, We Are All Blind" (2.2)
- Ashley Anderson, "Playing with the Essay: Cognitive Pattern Play in Ander Monson and Susan Sontag" (2.2)
- Lawrence Evan Dotson, "Persona in Progression: A Look at Creative Nonfiction Literature in Civil Rights and Rap" (2.2)
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2.2 Articles
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3.1 (Fall 2016)
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3.1 Articles
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- Chelsey Clammer, "Discovering the (W)hole Story: On Fragments, Narrative, and Identity in the Embodied Essay" (3.1)
- Sarah Einstein, "'The Self-ish Genre': Questions of Authorial Selfhood and Ethics in First Person Creative Nonfiction" (3.1)
- Elizabeth Paul, "Seeing in Embraces" (3.1)
- Jennifer M. Dean, "Sentiment, Not Sentimentality" (3.1)
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3.1 Conversations
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- Interview with Robert Atwan (3.1)
- Jody Keisner, "'Did I Miss a Key Point?': A Study of Repetition in Joan Didion’s Blue Nights" (3.1)
- Julija Sukys, "In Praise of Slim Volumes: Big Book, Big Evil" (3.1)
- Lynn Z. Bloom, "The Great American Potluck Party" (3.1)
- Jenny Spinner, "The Best American Essays Series as (Partial) Essay History" (3.1)
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3.1 Pedagogy
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- Heath Diehl, "The Photo Essay: The Search for Meaning" (3.1)
- Sonya Huber, "James Baldwin: Nonfiction of a Native Son" (3.1)
- Christian Exoo, "Using CNF to Teach the Realities of Intimate Partner Violence to First Responders: An Annotated Bibliography" (3.1)
- John Proctor, "Teachin’ BAE: A New Reclamation of Research and Critical Thought" (3.1)
- Richard Gilbert, "Classics Lite: On Teaching the Shorter, Magazine Versions of James Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son' and Jonathan Lethem's 'The Beards'" (3.1)
- Dawn Duncan & Micaela Gerhardt, "The Power of Words to Build Bridges of Empathy" (3.1)
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3.2 (Spring 2017)
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3.2 Articles
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- Jennifer Lang, "When Worlds Collide: Writers Exploring Their Personal Narrative in Context" (3.2)
- Creighton Nicholas Brown, "Educational Archipelago: Alternative Knowledges and the Production of Docile Bodies in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis" (3.2)
- Nicola Waldron, "Containing the Chaos: On Spiral Structure and the Creation of Ironic Distance in Memoir" (3.2)
- Charles Green, "Remaking Relations: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates Beyond James Baldwin" (3.2)
- Joey Franklin, "Facts into Truths: Henry David Thoreau and the Role of Hard Facts in Creative Nonfiction" (3.2)
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3.2 Pedagogy
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- D. Shane Combs, "Go Craft Yourself: Conflict, Meaning, and Immediacies Through J. Cole’s “Let Nas Down” (3.2)
- Michael Ranellone, "Brothers, Keepers, Students: John Edgar Wideman Inside and Outside of Prison" (3.2)
- Emma Howes & Christian Smith, ""You have to listen very hard”: Contemplative Reading, Lectio Divina, and Social Justice in the Classroom" (3.2)
- Megan Brown, "The Beautiful Struggle: Teaching the Productivity of Failure in CNF Courses" (3.2)
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3.2 Articles
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4.1 (Fall 2017)
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- Editor's Note
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4.1 Articles
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- Jennifer Case, "Place Studies: Theory and Practice in Environmental Nonfiction"
- Bob Cowser, Jr., "Soldiers, Home: Genre & the American Postwar Story from Hemingway to O'Brien & then Wolff"
- Sam Chiarelli, "Audience as Participant: The Role of Personal Perspective in Contemporary Nature Writing"
- Kate Dusto, "Reconstructing Blank Spots and Smudges: How Postmodern Moves Imitate Memory in Mary Karr's The Liars' Club"
- Joanna Eleftheriou, "Is Genre Ever New? Theorizing the Lyric Essay in its Historical Context"
- Harriet Hustis, ""The Only Survival, The Only Meaning": The Structural Integrity of Thornton Wilder's Bridge in John Hersey's Hiroshima"
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4.2 (Spring 2018)
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4.2 Articles
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- Megan Brown, "Testimonies, Investigations, and Meditations: Telling Tales of Violence in Memoir"
- Corinna Cook, "Documentation and Myth: On Daniel Janke's How People Got Fire"
- Michael W. Cox, "Privileging the Sentence: David Foster Wallace’s Writing Process for “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s”
- Sarah Pape, "“Artistically Seeing”: Visual Art & the Gestures of Creative Nonfiction"
- Annie Penfield, "Moving Towards What is Alive: The Power of the Sentence to Transform"
- Keri Stevenson, "Partnership, Not Dominion: Resistance to Decay in the Falconry Memoir"
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4.2 Conversations
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- Interview with Jericho Parms (4.2)
- "Containing the Hidden Lives of Ordinary Things: A Conversation with Seven Authors"
- Amy Monticello, "The New Greek Chorus: Collective Characters in Creative Nonfiction"
- Stacy Murison, "David Foster Wallace's 'Ticket to the Fair'"
- Emery Ross, "Toward a Craft of Disclosure: Risk, Shame, & Confession in the Harrowing Essay"
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4.2 Articles
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5.1 (Fall 2018)
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5.1 Articles
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- Emily W. Blacker, "Ending the Endless: The Art of Ending Personal Essays" (5.1)
- Marya Hornbacher, ""The World is Not Vague": Nonfiction and the Urgency of Fact" (5.1)
- Rachel May, "The Pen and the Needle: Intersections of Text and Textile in and as Nonfiction" (5.1)
- Jen Soriano, "Multiplicity from the Margins: The Expansive Truth of Intersectional Form" (5.1)
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5.1 Conversations
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- Matthew Ferrence, "In Praise of In Praise of Shadows: Toward a Structure of Reverse Momentum" (5.1)
- John Proctor, "Nothing Out of Something: Diagramming Sentences of Oppression" (5.1)
- Alysia Sawchyn, "Essaying the World: On Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions" (5.1)
- Vivian Wagner, "Crafting Digression: Interactivity and Gamification in Creative Nonfiction" (5.1)
- Nicole Walker, "On Beauty" (5.1)
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5.1 Pedagogy
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- Meghan Buckley, "[Creative] Nonfiction Novella: Teaching Postcolonial Life Writing and the Hybrid Genre of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place" (5.1)
- Edvige Giunta, "Memoir as Cross-Cultural Practice in Italian American Studies" (5.1)
- Jody Keisner, "Gender Identity in Personal Writing: Contextualizing the Syllabi" (5.1)
- Terry Ann Thaxton, "Workshop Wild" (5.1)
- Amanda Wray, "Contesting Traditions: Oral History in Creative Writing Pedagogy" (5.1)
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5.1 Articles
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5.2 (Spring 2019)
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5.2 Articles
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- Nina Boutsikaris, "On Very Short Books, Miniatures, and Other Becomings" (5.2)
- Kay Sohini, "The Graphic Memoir as a Transitional Object: Narrativizing the Self in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?" (5.2)
- Kelly Weber, ""We are the Poem": Structural Fissures and Levels in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water" (5.2)
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5.2 Tribute to Louise DeSalvo
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- Julija Sukys, "One Mother to Another: Remembering Louise DeSalvo (1942—2018)" (5.2)
- Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta, "The Essential Louise DeSalvo Reading List" (5.2)
- Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta, "From the Personal Edge: Beginning to Remember Louise DeSalvo" (5.2)
- Richard Hoffman, "DeSalvo Tribute, IAM Books, Boston" (5.2)
- Peter Covino, "Getting It Right – Homage for Louise DeSalvo" (5.2)
- Mary Jo Bona, "Pedagogy of the Liberated and Louise DeSalvo’s Gifts" (5.2)
- Joshua Fausty, "The Shared Richness of Life Itself" (5.2)
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5.2 Pedagogy
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- Ashley Anderson, "Teaching Experimental Structures through Objects and John McPhee’s 'The Search for Marvin Gardens'" (5.2)
- Trisha Brady, "Negotiating Linguistic Borderlands, Valuing Linguistic Diversity, and Incorporating Border Pedagogy in a College Composition Classroom" (5.2)
- Kim Hensley Owens, "Writing Health and Disability: Two Problem-Based Composition Assignments" (5.2)
- Reshmi Mukherjee, "Threads: From the Refugee Crisis: Creative Nonfiction and Critical Pedagogy" (5.2)
- Susan M. Stabile, "Architectures of Revision" (5.2)
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5.2 Articles
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6.1 (Fall 2019)
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6.1 Articles
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- Lynn Z. Bloom, "The Slippery Slope: Ideals and Ethical Issues in High Altitude Climbing Narratives" (6.1)
- Tanya Bomsta, "The Performance of Epistemic Agency of the Autobiographical Subject in Terry Tempest Williams’s When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice" (6.1)
- Lorna Hummel, "Querying and Queering Caregiving: Reading Bodies Othered by Illness via Porochista Khakpour’s Sick: A Memoir" (6.1)
- Laura Valeri, "Tell Tale Interviews: Lessons in True-Life Trauma Narratives Gleaned from Jennifer Fox’s The Tale" (6.1)
- Arianne Zwartjes, "Under the Skin: An Exploration of Autotheory" (6.1)
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6.1 Conversations
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- Tracy Floreani, ""Sewing and Telling": On Textile as Story" (6.1)
- Tessa Fontaine, "The Limits of Perception: Trust Techniques in Nonfiction" (6.1)
- Patrick Madden, "Once More to 'His Last Game'" (6.1) >
- Randon Billings Noble, "The Sitting" (6.1)
- Donna Steiner, "Serving Size: On Hunger and Delight" (6.1)
- Natalie Villacorta, "Autofiction: Rightly Shaped for Woman’s Use" (6.1)
- 6.1 Tribute to Ned Stuckey-French >
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6.1 Pedagogy
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- John Currie, "The Naïve Narrator in Student-Authored Environmental Writing" (6.1)
- Steven Harvey, "The Humble Essayist's Paragraph of the Week: A Discipline of the Heart and Mind" (6.1)
- Reagan Nail Henderson, "Make Me Care!: Creating Digital Narratives in the Composition Classroom" (6.1)
- Abriana Jetté, "Making Meaning: Authority, Authorship, and the Introduction to Creative Writing Syllabus" (6.1)
- Jessie Male, "Teaching Lucy Grealy’s “Mirrorings” and the Importance of Disability Studies Pedagogy in Composition Classrooms" (6.1)
- Wendy Ryden, "Liminally True: Creative Nonfiction as Transformative Thirdspace" (6.1)
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6.1 Articles
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6.2 (Spring 2020)
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- Guest Editor's Note to the Special Issue
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6.2 Articles
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- Maral Aktokmakyan, "Revisioning Gendered Reality in Armenian Women’s Life Writing of the Post-Genocidal Era: Zaruhi Kalemkearian’s From the Path of My Life"
- Manisha Basu, "Regimes of Reality: Of Contemporary Indian Nonfiction and its Free Men"
- Stefanie El Madawi, "Telling Tales: Bearing Witness in Jennifer Fox’s The Tale"
- Inna Sukhenko and Anastasia Ulanowicz, "Narrative, Nonfiction, and the Nuclear Other: Western Representations of Chernobyl in the Works of Adam Higginbotham, Serhii Plokhy, and Kate Brown"
- 6.2 Conversations >
- Tribute to Michael Steinberg >
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7.1 (Fall 2020)
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7.1 Articles
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- Jo-Anne Berelowitz, "Mourning and Melancholia in Memoir" (Assay 7.1)
- Carlos Cunha, "On the Chronicle" (Assay 7.1)
- Bruce Owens Grimm, "Haunted Memoir" (Assay 7.1)
- Colleen Hennessy, "Irish Motherhood in Irish Nonfiction: Abortion and Agency" (Assay 7.1)
- James Perrin Warren, "Underland: Reading with Robert Macfarlane" (Assay 7.1)
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7.1 Conversations
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- Alex Brostoff, ""What are we going to do with our proximity, baby!?" A Reply in Multiples of The Hundreds" (Assay 7.1)
- Steven Harvey, "Lyric Memory: A Guide to the Mnemonics of Nonfiction" (Assay 7.1)
- Lisa Low, "Proleptic Strategies in Race-Based Essays: Jordan K. Thomas, Rita Banerjee, and Durga Chew-Bose" (Assay 7.1)
- Nicole Walker, "The Concrete Poetry of Ander Monson’s Essays" (Assay 7.1)
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7.1 Pedagogy
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- Audrey T. Heffers, "Positionality and Experience in the Creative Nonfiction Classroom" (Assay 7.1)
- James McAdams, "Ars Poetica, Ars Media, Ars COVID-19: Creative Writing in the Medical Classroom" (Assay 7.1)
- Freesia McKee, "Feedback as Fan Letter" (Assay 7.1)
- Anthony Moll, "Teaching and Writing True Stories Through Feminist, Womanist and Black Feminist Epistemologies" (Assay 7.1)
- Jill Stukenberg, "“Inspiration in the Drop of Ink”: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Observations in Introduction to Creative Writing" (Assay 7.1)
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7.1 Articles
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7.2 (Spring 2021)
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7.2 Articles
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- Whitney Brown, "Melting Ice and Disappointing Whale Hunts: A Climate-Focused Review of Contemporary Travel Writing" (Assay 7.2)
- George Estreich, "Ross Gay’s Logics of Delight" (Assay 7.2)
- Wes Jamison, "'You Are Absent': The Pronoun of Address in Nonfiction" (Assay 7.2)
- Zachary Ostraff, "The Lyric Essay as a Form of Counterpoetics" (Assay 7.2)
- Kara Zivin, "Interrogating Patterns: Meandering, Spiraling, and Exploding through The Two Kinds of Decay" (Assay 7.2)
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7.2 Pedagogy
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- Megan Baxter, "On Teaching Brian Doyle’s “Leap” to Students Born After 9/11" (Assay 7.2)
- Jennifer Case, "'Toward a New, Broader Perspective': Place-Based Pedagogy and the Narrative Interview"
- Kelly K. Ferguson, "Cribbing Palpatine’s Syllabus: Or, What Professoring for the Evil Empire Taught Me About Instructional Design" (Assay 7.2)
- Jennifer Pullen, "Seeking Joy in the Classroom: Nature Writing in 2020" (Assay 7.2)
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7.2 Articles
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8.1 (Fall 2021)
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8.1 Articles
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- Allison Ellis, "Nonfiction Ghost Hunting" (Assay 8.1)
- Lisa Levy, "We Are All Modern: Exploring the Vagaries of Consciousness in 20th & 21st Century Biography and Life Writing" (Assay 8.1)
- Ashley Espinoza, "A las Mujeres: Hybrid Identities in Latina Memoir" (Assay 8.1)
- Cherie Nelson, "The Slippery Self: Intertextuality in Lauren Slater’s Lying" (Assay 8.1)
- Amie Souza Reilly, "Reading the Gaps: On Women’s Nonfiction and Page Space" (Assay 8.1)
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8.1 Conversations
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- Amy Bowers, "The Elegiac Chalkboard in Jo Ann Beard’s “The Fourth State of Matter”" (Assay 8.1)
- Theresa Goenner, "The Mania of Language: Robert Vivian's Dervish Essay" (Assay 8.1)
- Kathryn Nuernberger, "Writing Women’s Histories" (Assay 8.1)
- Louisa McCullough, "The Case for In-Person Conversation" (Assay 8.1)
- Kat Moore, "Rupture in Time (and Language): Hybridity in Kathy Acker’s Essays" (Assay 8.1)
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8.1 Pedagogy
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- Mike Catron, "There’s No Such Thing as Too Much of Jason Sheehan’s “There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Barbecue”: A Pedagogical Discussion" (Assay 8.1)
- Brooke Covington, "Ars Media: A Toolkit for Narrative Medicine in Writing Classrooms" (Assay 8.1)
- W. Scott Olsen, "A Desire for Stories" (Assay 8.1)
- C.S. Weisenthal, "Seed Stories: Pitched into the Digital Archive" (Assay 8.1)
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8.1 Articles
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8.2 (Spring 2022)
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8.2 Articles
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- Barrie Jean Borich, "Radical Surprise: The Subversive Art of the Uncertain," (8.2)
- George Estreich, "Feeling Seen: Blind Man’s Bluff, Memoir, and the Sighted Reader" (8.2)
- Kristina Gaddy, "When Action is Too Much and Not Enough: A Study of Mode in Narrative Journalism" (8.2)
- Marya Hornbacher, "Solitude Narratives: Towards a Future of the Form" (8.2)
- Margot Kotler, "Susan Sontag, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Politics of Queer Biography " (8.2)
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8.2 Pedagogy
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- Liesel Hamilton, "How I Wish I’d Taught Frederick Douglass: An Examination of the Books and Conversations We Have in Classrooms" (8.2)
- Audrey T. Heffers, "In the Room Where it Happens: Accessibility, Equity, and the Creative Writing Classroom" (8.2)
- Daniel Nester, "Joan Didion and Aldous Huxley’s Three Poles" (8.2)
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