ASSAY: A JOURNAL OF NONFICTION STUDIES
  • 5.1 (Fall 2018)
    • 5.1 Articles >
      • 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)
    • 5.1 Conversations >
      • 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)
    • 5.1 Spotlight >
      • Philip Graham, "The Shadow Knows (5.1)
      • Miles Harvey, "The Two Inmates: ​Research in Creative Nonfiction and the Power of “Outer Feeling”" (5.1)
      • Tim Hillegonds, "Making Fresh" (5.1)
      • Michele Morano, "Creating Meaning Through Structure" (5.1)
    • 5.1 Pedagogy >
      • 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)
  • Archives
    • Journal Index >
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    • 1.1 (Fall 2014) >
      • Editor's Note
      • 1.1 Articles >
        • 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)
      • 1.1 Conversations >
        • Donald Morrill, "An Industrious Enchantment" (1.1)
        • Sonya Huber, "Amazon Constellations" (1.1)
        • Derek Hinckley, "Fun Home: Change and Tradition in Graphic Memoir" (1.1)
        • Interview with Melanie Hoffert
        • Interview with Kelly Daniels
      • 1.1 Pedagogy >
        • Robert Brooke, "Teaching: 'Rhetoric: The Essay'" (1.1)
        • Richard Louth, "In Brief: Autobiography and Life Writing" (1.1)
    • 1.2 (Spring 2015) >
      • 1.2 Articles >
        • 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)
      • Conversations >
        • Doug Carlson, "Paul Gruchow and Brian Turner: Two Memoirs Go Cubistic" (1.2)
        • Patrick Madden, "Aliased Essayists" (1.2)
        • Beth Slattery, "Hello to All That" (1.2)
        • Interview with Michael Martone (1.2)
      • Spotlight >
        • Richard Louth, "The New Orleans Writing Marathon and the Writing World" (1.2)
        • Kelly Lock-McMillen, "Journey to the Center of a Writer's Block" (1.2)
        • Jeff Grinvalds, "Bringing It Back Home: The NOWM in My Classroom" (1.2)
        • Susan Martens, "Finding My Nonfiction Pedagogy Muse at the NOWM" (1.2)
      • Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • 2.1 (Fall 2015) >
      • Editor's Note2.1
      • Articles >
        • 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)
      • Conversations >
        • 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)
      • Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • Special Conference Issue
    • 2.2 (Spring 2016) >
      • Articles >
        • 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)
      • Conversations >
        • Julie Platt, "What Our Work is For: ​The Perils and Possibilities of Arts-Based Research" (2.2)
        • William Bradley, "On the Pleasure of Hazlitt" (2.2)
        • Jie Liu, "​'Thirteen Canada Geese': On the Video Essay" (2.2)
        • Stacy Murison, "​Memoir as Sympathy: Our Desire to be Understood" (2.2)
      • Pedagogy >
        • Stephanie Guedet, "​Feeling Human Again: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Empathy" (2.2)
        • DeMisty Bellinger-Delfield, "Exhibiting Speculation in Nonfiction: Teaching 'What He Took'" (2.2)
        • Gail Folkins, "Straight from the Source: ​Primary Research and the Personality Profile" (2.2)
    • 3.1 (Fall 2016) >
      • 3.1 Articles >
        • 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)
      • 3.1 Conversations >
        • 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)
      • 3.1 Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • 3.2 (Spring 2017) >
      • 3.2 Articles >
        • 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)
      • 3.2 Conversations >
        • Thomas Larson, "What I Am Not Yet, I Am" (3.2)
        • Amanda Ake, "Vulnerability and the Page: Chloe Caldwell’s I’ll Tell You In Person"​ (3.2)
        • "Interview with Gail Griffin" (3.2)
        • Alysia Sawchyn, "On Best American Essays 1989" (3.2)
      • 3.2 Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • 4.1 (Fall 2017) >
      • Editor's Note
      • 4.1 Articles >
        • 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"
      • 4.1 Conversations >
        • Taylor Brorby, "​On 'Dawn and Mary'"
        • Steven Harvey, "​From 'Leap'"
        • J. Drew Lanham, "​On 'Joyas Voladoras'"
        • Patrick Madden, "On 'His Last Game'"
        • Ana Maria Spagna, "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are'"
      • 4.1 Pedagogy >
        • Jacqueline Doyle, "Shuffling the Cards: ​I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer"
        • Amy E. Robillard, "Children Die No Matter How Hard We Try: What the Personal Essay Teaches Us About Reading"
    • 4.2 (Spring 2018) >
      • 4.2 Articles >
        • 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"
      • 4.2 Conversations >
        • 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"
      • 4.2 Pedagogy >
        • Sonya Huber, "Field Notes for a Vulnerable & Immersed Narrator" (4.2)
        • W. Scott Olsen, "In Other Words" (4.2)
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Subject/Topical Index


A-G

  • Abram, David (Wilkinson)
  • Addison, Joseph (Madden)
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, "The Danger of a Single Story" (Olivas)
  • Adorno, Theodor (Morris)
  • African-American (Dotson)
  • Agee, James (Brown)
  • Aldrich, Marcia (Wilson)
  • Allusion (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Ali, Kazim, Bright Felon (Soriano)
  • Almond, Steve (Guedet)
  • Anderson, Chris, Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy (Fodrey)
  • Animals (Galbraith, Liu, Wilkinson, Lanham)
  • Anthologies (Spinner)
  • Anzaldua, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera (Olivas)
  • Anzaldua, Gloria, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (Olivas)
  • Ariely, Dan (Buni)
  • Aristotle (Fertel)
  • Arnold, Miah, "You Owe Me" (Robillard)
  • Art (Bascom, Brorby, Buntin)
  • Arts-Based Research (Platt)
  • Atwan, Robert (Opidee, Sawchyn, Spinner)
  • Augustine (Larson)
  • Authorial Persona (Dotson, Liu, Cowser)
  • Autobiography (Dotson, Wells, Wilkinson, Cowser)
  • Bacon, Francis (Fertel, Morris)
  • Baldwin, James (Green, Howes-Smith)
  • Baldwin, James, "Notes of a Native Son" (Gilbert, Harvey-Spagna, Lang, Olivas, Morano)
  • Baldwin, James, "Me and My House" (Gilbert, Huber 3.1)
  • Banks, Adam (Olivas)
  • Barthes, Roland (Sagor)
  • Beard, Jo Ann (Brooke, Wells)
  • Beard, Jo Ann, "Fourth State of Matter" (Borich, Galbraith, Harvey-Spagna, Lang, Opidee, Wells)
  • Beauty (Walker)
  • Bechdel, Alison (Hinckley)
  • Beginnings (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Berkenstein, Cathy (Brooke)
  • Best American Essays (Atwan, Babine, Bloom 3.1, Proctor 3.1, Sawchyn, Spinner)
  • Bias (Borich, Bascom)
  • Birkerts, Sven, Art of Time in Memoir (Wilkinson)
  • Bishop, Wendy (Fodrey, Opidee)
  • Biss, Eula (McCrary, Wilson, Blacker)
  • Black Elk Speaks (Olivas)
  • Black, Robin, "The Answer That Increasingly Appeals" (Morano)
  • Bloom, Lynn Z., "The Essay Canon" (Fodrey, Spinner)
  • Blue Collar Narratives (Nester)
  • Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (Olivas)
  • Boyd, Brian, On the Origin of Stories (Anderson)
  • Bragg, Rick (Louth 1.1)
  • Braitman, Laurel (Galbraith)
  • Bresland, John, "On the Origin of the Video Essay" (Liu)
  • Bresland, John, "On Writing for the Ear" (Liu)
  • Built Environment (Brorby, Buntin)
  • Buntin, Simmons (Brorby)
  • Burroughs, John, "Real and Sham in Natural History" (Galbraith)
  • Caldwell, Chloe (Ake)
  • Campbell, Kimberly Hill (Brooke)
  • Carlisle, Kelly Grey (Bellinger-Delfield)
  • Carson, Anne (Wilson)
  • Castro, Joy (Bellinger-Delfield)
  • Castro, Joy, The Truth Book (Puican)
  • Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, Dictee (Platt)
  • Chabon, Michael, "The Omega Glory" (Olivas)
  • Character (Borich, Hustis)
  • Children (Spagna 4.1)
  • Christensen, Linda (Brooke)
  • Civil Right (Dotson)
  • Class (Dotson, Nester, Olivas)
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi, "Between the World and Me" (Brown, Green)
  • Cofer, Judith Ortiz (Bellinger-Delfield, 4.1 DoyleDoyle)
  • Cole, J., "Let Nas Down" (Combs)
  • Coming of Age (Gilbert, Nester)
  • Compassion (DuncanGerhardt, Guedet)
  • Composition Studies (Brooke, Fodrey, McCaughey, Olivas, Spinner) 
  • Condon, Frankie (Olivas)
  • Context (Borich, Puican)
  • Cooper, Bernard, "The Wind Did It" (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Corder, Jim W., (Fodrey)
  • Creative Writing Studies (Fodrey)
  • Critical theory (Heston)
  • Critical thinking (Diehl, Proctor 3.1)
  • D'Agata, John (Buni, Madden, Morris, Eleftheriou)
  • Danticat, Edwidge (Opidee)
  • Dawson, Paul (Fodrey)
  • Dear Sugar (Guedet)
  • Deep Portrait (Borich)
  • Deloria, Jr., Vine, "Indian Humor" (Olivas)
  • Derrida, Jacques (Heston, Wilkinson, Dusto)
  • Diagramming Sentences (Proctor 5.1)
  • Dialogue (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Dickenson, Charles (Morris)
  • Didion, Joan (Brooke, Keisner, Sawchyn, Slattery, )
  • Digital (Huber 1.1, Vanderslice, Brorby, Buntin)
  • Digression (Puican, Wagner)
  • Dillard, Annie (Buni, Wilson, Fertel)
  • Dillard, Annie, "Death of a Moth" (Galbraith)
  • Discipline (Brown)
  • ​Diski, Jenny (Waldron)
  • Distortion (Bascom)
  • Dombek, Kristen (Brooke)
  • Doss, Charles (Morris)
  • Doyle, Brian (Wilson, Harvey-Spagna, Harvey, Brorby 4.1, Madden 4.1)
  • Doyle, Brian, "Dawn and Mary" (Brorby 4.1)
  • Doyle, Brian, "Joyas Voladoras" (Harvey-Spagna, Lanham)
  • Doyle, Brian, "Leap" (Harvey)
  • Duncan, David James (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Dyer, Geoff (Waldron)
  • Ecocriticism (Galbraith, Brorby, Buntin)
  • Editing (Brorby, Buntin)
  • Eggers, Dave (Buni)
  • Elbow, Peter (Brooke, Olivas)
  • Ely, Scott, "Random" (Koesters)
  • Emotion (Bradley, Galbraith, Guedet, Puican, Opidee, Lanham)
  • Empathy (Harding Thornton, Galbraith, McCrary, Puican, Olivas, Opidee, Geudet, DuncanGerhardt, Brorby 4.1, Robillard)
  • Endings (Harvey-Spagna, Blacker)
  • Environment (Wilkinson)
  • Erasmus (Fertel)
  • Essay (Brooke, McCaughey, McCrary, Morris, Stuckey-French, Wilson, Blacker, Harvey 5.1)
  • Ethics (Borich, Harvey, M., Hornbacher)
  • Ethnicity (Doyle)
  • Evernden, Neil (Wilkinson)
  • Experimental Forms (Basiletti, Martone, Anderson, Wagner) 
  • Ekphrastic Nonfiction (Bascom)
  • Fact in Nonfiction (Hornbacher)
  • ​Failure (Brown)
  • Fallon, Katie (Chiarelli)
  • Family (Madden 4.1, Spagna 4.1. Graham)
  • Feminism (Olivas, Soriano, May)
  • Fingal, Jim (Buni, Madden)
  • First-Year Writing (McCaughey, Opidee, Fodrey, Proctor 3.1)
  • Flowers, Linda (Olivas)
  • Flynn, Nick, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Borich)
  • Foster, Patricia (Bascom)
  • Ford, Dennis, The Search for Meaning (Diehl)
  • Forms of Nonfiction (Fertel, Morrill, Stuckey-French, May, Buckley)
  • Forms, Experimental (Basiletti, Martone, Anderson)
  • Foucault, Michel (Brown)
  • Franklin, H. Bruce (Morris)
  • Franzen, Jonathan (Bloom)
  • Frazier, Ian (Madden)
  • Freud, Sigmund (Fertel, Sagor)
  • Frey, James (Buni)
  • Gaard, Greta (Case)
  • ​Galbraith, Megan Culhane (Liu)
  • Galeano, Eduardo (Carlson)
  • Gamification (Wagner)
  • Gatto, Roseanne (Fodrey)
  • Gender Studies (Olivas, Keisner)
  • ​Gender (Dotson, Spinner, Doyle, Keisner)
  • Gessner, David, The Prophet of Dry Hill (Case)
  • Giffords, Gabrielle (Huber 1.1)
  • Giroux, Henry (Brooke)
  • Goldberg, Natalie (Louth 1.2, Martens)
  • Goldsmith, Oliver (Madden)
  • Good, Graham (Morris)
  • Gornick, Vivian (Harwood, Hinckley, Lang)
  • Gould, Stephen Jay (Brooke)
  • Gradin, Sherrie L. (Fodrey)
  • Graff, Gerald (Brooke)
  • Graphic Nonfiction (Hinckley)
  • Grief (Galbraith, Puican)
  • Gruchow, Paul (Carlson)
  • Gutkind, Lee (Buni, Fodrey)

H-N

P-Z


  • Haley, Alex, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Dotson)
  • Hamburger, Michael (Morris)
  • Hampl, Patricia (Bascom)
  • Harris, Rochelle (Fodrey)
  • Harvey, Steve (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Hazlitt, William, "On the Pleasure of Hating" (Bradley)
  • Healing (DuncanGerhardt, Guedet)
  • Heilker, Paul (Brooke)
  • Heise, Ursula (Case)
  • Hemingway, Ernest (Louth 1.1, Cowser)
  • Hemley, Robin (Buni, Wilson)
  • Herndon, Scott (Brooke)
  • Hesse, Douglas, "Who Owns Creative Nonfiction?" (Fodrey)
  • History (Borich)
  • Hoagland, Edward, "Lament the Red Wolf" (Galbraith)
  • Hoagland, Edward, "What Turtles Can Teach Us" (Galbraith)
  • Hormachea, Carroll (Morris)
  • Howells, William Dean (Morris)
  • Hughes, Langston, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (Olivas)
  • Humor Writing (Bloom, Harper)
  • Hunley, Tom C. (Fodrey)
  • Hybrid Genre (Soriano, Buckley)
  • Identity Studies (Olivas)
  • Image (Walker)
  • Immersion Journalism (Fodrey, Hustis)
  • Influence (Ferrence)
  • Insight (Koesters)
  • Interactivity (Wagner)
  • Interdisciplinary Studies (Diehl)
  • Intersectionality (Soriano)
  • Interview (Basiletti, Daniels, Hoffert, Martone, Streckert, Wilson, Brorby, Buntin, Folkins, Babine, Atwan, D'Aoust, Griffin) 
  • Ireland (Nerney, DuncanGerhardt)
  • Italian American Memoir (Giunta)
  • Jackson, Wes, Becoming Native to this Place (Wilkinson)
  • Japan (Ferrence)
  • James, William (Harvey, M.,)
  • Jargon (Koesters)
  • Jay Z, Decoded (Dotson)
  • Johnson, Lacy M., "On Mercy" (Robillard)
  • Johnston, Devin, Creaturely (Wilkinson)
  • Journalism (Hustis)
  • Journals (Morrill)
  • Kapil, Bhanu, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Wilkinson)
  • Kapuscinksi, Ryszard (Buni)
  • Karr, Mary, The Liars' Club (Dusto)
  • Karr, Mary, The Art of Memoir (Dusto)
  • Kerouac, Jack (Fertel, Bascom)
  • Kimball, Naomi (Buni)
  • Kincaid, Jamaica, A Small Place ​(Brown, Buckley)
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior (Borich)
  • Kitchen, Judith (Harding Thornton, Harvey-Spagna)
  • Kitchen, Judith, "The Circus Train" (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Klaus, Carl (Buni, Dotson, Morano)
  • Klosterman, Chuck (Brooke)
  • Knopp, Lisa (Brooke, Bellinger-Delfield)
  • Kooser, Ted (Harding Thornton, 
  • Kostenbaum, Wayne (Brooke)
  • Krakauer, Jon (Bloom)
  • Kroll, Barry (Brooke)
  • Kuusisto, Stephen, Eavesdropping (Koesters)
  • Lacan, Jacques (Sagor)
  • Lanham, J. Drew, The Home Place (Case)
  • Lamb, Charles (Brooke, Madden)
  • Langer, Suzanne (Bloom)
  • Language (Harding Thornton, Koesters)
  • Latino Studies (Olivas)
  • Latimer, Kristi (Brooke)
  • LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole (Buni)
  • Lectio divina (Howes-Smith)
  • Leisure Studies (Morris)
  • Lethem, Jonathan (Gilbert)
  • Levinas, Emmanuel (DuncanGerhardt)
  • Levi-Strauss, Claude (Fertel)
  • Literacy Narrative (Vanderslice, Olivas, Fodrey)
  • Literary Citizenship (Huber 1.1)
  • Literary History (Eleftheriou)
  • Literary Journalism (Folkins)
  • LGBT (Hinckley, Hoffert, Streckert, Borich, Keisner)
  • Lopate, Phillip (Brooke, Harwood, Madden, Morris, Nester, Wells, Fodrey)
  • Lopate, Phillip, "Against Joie de Vivre" (Bradley)
  • Lopate, Phillip, The Art of the Personal Essay (Fodrey)
  • Lopate, Phillip, "Reflection and Retrospection: A Pedagogic Mystery Story" (Fodrey)
  • Lopate, Phillip, "The Essay: Exploration or Argument" (Fodrey)
  • Lowe, Bia (Wilson)
  • Luiselli, Valeria (Sawchyn 5.1)
  • Lyric Essay--Seneca Review (Wilson, Eleftheriou)
  • Lyric Essay, Other (Bascom)
  • Mackall, Joe, Last Street Before Cleveland (Koesters)
  • Marquart, Debra (Brooke)
  • Martone, Michael (Basiletti, Church)
  • Marriage (Wells)
  • McCarten, John (Nerney)
  • McCaughey, Jessica (Fodrey)
  • McPhee, John, "Frame of Reference" (Harvey-Spagna)
  • McPhee, John, "The Search for Marvin Gardens" (Olivas)
  • Masumoto, David Mas (Case)
  • Memoir, Disability (Koesters)
  • Memoir, General (Carlson, Fontaine, Heston, Hinckley, Hoffert, Streckert, Nester, Koesters, Puican, Fodrey, Wilkinson, Dotson, Folkins, Dusto, Giunta)
  • Memoir, Graphic (Brown)
  • Memoir, Pop Culture (Dotson)
  • Memoir, Religious (Koesters)
  • Memoir, Scientific (Koesters)
  • Memoir-in-Essays (Wells)
  • Memory (Carlson, Fontaine, McCaughey, Sagor, Liu, Dusto, Graham)
  • Mental Illness (Carlson)
  • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (Wilkinson)
  • Merton, Thomas, Seven Story Mountain (Koesters)
  • Miesbach, Donna (Morris)
  • Miller, Brenda (Wilson)
  • Miller, J. Hillis (Opidee)
  • Miller, Richard, "Reading in Slow Motion" (Howes-Smith)
  • Minnesota (Borich)
  • Monson, Ander "Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir" (Brown)
  • Monson, Ander, "Essay as Hack" (Anderson)
  • Montaigne, Michel de (Brooke, Buni, Fertel, Madden, Morris, Stuckey-French, Harvey 5.1)
  • Moore, Dinty W. (Wilson)
  • Morrison, Toni (Green)
  • Mortensen, Greg (Buni)
  • Murray, Donald (Olivas)
  • Music (Dotson)
  • N4 (Guedet, DuncanGerhardt)
  • Narrative Nonfiction (Harvey-Spagna, Puican, Hustis)
  • Narrative Techniques (Liu, DuncanGerhardt, Chiarelli)
  • Nature Writing (Galbraith, Brorby, Buntin, Chiarelli, Lanham)
  • NCTE "Resolution on the Students' Right to Their Own Language" (Olivas)
  • New Orleans (Grinvalds, Lock-McMillen, Louth 1.1, Louth 1.2, Martens)
  • New York (Slattery)
  • The New Yorker (Nerney)
  • Neulinger, John (Morris)
  • Norris, Kathleen (Brooke)
  • Norris, Kathleen, Dakota (Koesters)
  • Nussbaum, Martha (DuncanGerhardt)
  • Objectivity (Bascom)
  • O'Brien, Tim (Cowser)
  • O'Faolain, Nuala (Slattery)
  • "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings, William James (Harvey, M.)
  • Opa Nobody (Huber 1.1)
  • Oral History (May, Wray)
  • Orwell, George (Buni)
  • Othering (Olivas)


























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  • Pattern (Harding Thornton, Harvey-Spagna, Hustis)
  • Paul, Ron (Huber)
  • Paz, Octavio (Bascom)
  • Peary, Alexandra (Fodrey)
  • Pedagogy, College (Brooke, Church, Louth 1.1, Louth 1.2, Martens, McCaughey, Vanderslice, Olivas, Fodrey, Opidee, Guedet, Bellinger-Delfield, DuncanGerhardt, Proctor 3.1, Doyle, Thaxton, Wray)
  • Pedagogy, Critical Expressivist (Olivas, Fodrey)
  • Pedagogy, High School (Grinvalds, Lock-McMillen, DuncanGerhardt)
  • Pedagogy, Composition (Proctor 3.1)
  • Pedagogy, Continuing Education (Gilbert)
  • Perillo, Lucia, I've Heard The Vulture Singing (Koesters)
  • Persona (Harding Thornton, Dotson, Cowser, Dusto)
  • Personal Essay (Robillard)
  • Personal Narratives (Bloom, Dotson, Harper, Harwood, Olivas, Waldron)
  • Personality Profiles (Folkins)
  • Photo Essay (Diehl)
  • Place (Basiletti, Church, Hoffert, Louth 1.2, Martone, Streckert, Case)
  • Pluralism (Harvey, M.)
  • Photography (Liu, Murison)
  • Poetry (Harding Thornton, Dotson)
  • Politics (Olivas, Sawchyn 5.1, Proctor 5.1)
  • Pope, Mary (Fodrey)
  • Portrait (Borich)
  • Postcolonial Life Writing (Brown, Buckley)
  • Postmodernism (Dusto)
  • Prairie Silence (Streckert)
  • Prentiss, Sean and Joe Wilkins, The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre (Anderson)
  • Prejean, Sr. Helen, Dead Man Walking (Puican)
  • Prison Writing (Morris, Ranellone, Proctor 5.1)
  • Privilege (Olivas, Harvey, M)
  • Profiles (Nerney)
  • Psychology (Fontaine, Anderson)
  • Purpura, Lia (Wilson, Bascom)
  • Quammen, David (Chiarelli)
  • Questlove, Mo'Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Dotson)
  • Rabelais (Fertel)
  • Race (McCrary, Olivas, Harvey, M., Dotson, Howes-Smith, Case)
  • Rapp, Emily, "Someone to Hold Me" (Robillard)
  • Reading Practices (Howes-Smith, Robillard)
  • Reality (Bascom)
  • Reflection (Diehl, Graham)
  • Reporting (Folkins)
  • Research (Basiletti, Platt, Folkins, Proctor 3.1, Harvey 5.1)
  • Revision (Harding Thornton)
  • Rhetoric (Brooke, McCaughey, Platt)
  • Rhetorical Theory (Olivas, Fodrey)
  • Rich, Adrienne (Brooke, Lang)
  • River Teeth (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Roeder, Tara (Fodrey)
  • Rosenblatt, Roger, Making Toast (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Root, Robert (Harwood, Harvey-Spagna, Fodrey)
  • Sanders, Scott Russell (Harwood, Case, Blacker)
  • Sandor, Marjorie, "Rhapsody in Green" (Koesters)
  • Santayana, George (Bloom)
  • Satrapi, Marjane, The Complete Persepolis​ (Brown)
  • Savoy, Lauret, Trace (Soriano)
  • Scales, Helen (Chiarelli)
  • Scene (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Schmid, Charles (Morris)
  • Sedaris, David (Blacker)
  • Selzer, Richard (Wilson)
  • Seneca (Morris)
  • Sentencing (Harding Thornton)
  • Shakespeare, William (Morris)
  • Shane, Scott (Morris)
  • Sharp, Leta McGaffey (Fodrey)
  • Shelton, Richard (Morris)
  • Silko, Leslie Marmon, "The Border Patrol State" (Olivas)
  • Silverman, Sue William (Wilson)
  • Sinor, Jennifer (Wilson)
  • Smith, Alexander (Morris)
  • Social Justice (Olivas, Proctor 5.1)
  • So What? (Graham, Morano, Hillegonds, Harvey)
  • Sontag, Susan "Unguided Tour" (Anderson)
  • Spagna, Ana Maria (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Speculation (Bellinger-Delfield)
  • Spigelman (Brooke)
  • Spinner, Jenny (Fodrey)
  • Stafford, Kim (Louth 1.1)
  • Stein, Gertrude, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Wilkinson)
  • Steinbeck, John (Galbraith)
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis (Morris)
  • Strayed, Cheryl (Guedet, Spinner)
  • Structure (Carlson, Harwood, Wilson, Wells, Harding Thornton, Harvey-Spagna, Dotson, Gilbert, Hustis, Ferrence, Morano)
  • Stuckey-French, Ned (Fertel)
  • Stucky, J. Elspeth (Olivas)
  • Suicide (Carlson)
  • Swift, Jonathan (Madden)
  • Swift, Jonathan, "A Modest Proposal" (Bascom)
  • Switek, Brian (Chiarelli)
  • Technology (Liu)
  • Terrain.org (Brorby, Buntin)
  • Textiles (May)
  • Theme (Harvey-Spagna)
  • Thomas, Abigail (Galbraith)
  • Thoreau, Henry David (Fertel, Franklin)
  • Tragedy (Combs, Galbraith, Opidee, Guedet, Madden 4.1)
  • Trainer, Jennifer, A Small Place (Howes-Smith)
  • Translation (Eleftheriou)
  • Trauma (Carlson, Guedet, Opidee, Waldron, Harvey, Brorby 4.1)
  • Travel Writing (Basiletti, Bloom, Church, Louth 1.2, Harvey, M.)
  • Trigger Warnings (Opidee)
  • Trust (Bascom)
  • Truth (Bascom, Franklin, Hornbacher)
  • Tudge, Colin (Chiarelli)
  • Tuan, Yi-Fu (Case)
  • Turner, Brian (Carlson)
  • Van Meter, Ryan, "First" (Harvey-Spagna, Morano)
  • Vanderslice, Stephanie (Fodrey)
  • Verb Tense (Wells)
  • Verzemnieks, Inara (Franklin)
  • VIDA (Spinner)
  • Video Essay (Liu)
  • Villanueva, Victor (Olivas)
  • Voice (Bascom, ​McCrary)
  • Wade, Julie Marie (Wilson)
  • Walker, Alice (Brooke)
  • War Narratives (Carlson, Cowser, Hustis)
  • Ward, Jesmyn, Men We Reaped (Puican)
  • White, E.B. (Morris)
  • White, E.B., "The Geese" (Liu)
  • White Space (Harvey-Spagna, 5.1 Wagner)
  • Wideman, John Edgar, Brothers and Keepers (Borich, Ranellone)
  • Williams, Terry Tempest, Refuge (Wilkinson, DuncanGerhardt)
  • Witness (Borich)
  • Wolfe, Tom (Buni)
  • Wolfe, Tom,The Right Stuff (Borich)
  • Wolff, Geoffrey (Bloom)
  • Wolff, Tobias (Sagor, Cowser)
  • Women Essayists (Spinner)
  • Woolf, Virginia (Brooke, Madden)
  • Woolf, Virginia, "The Death of the Moth" (Galbraith)
  • Woolf, Virginia, "A Room of One's Own" (Doyle)
  • Woolf, Virginia, "Street Haunting" (Bascom)
  • Working Class (Nester)
  • Workshop (Thaxton)
  • Writing Marathon (Grinvalds, Lock-McMillen, Louth 1.1, Louth 1.2, Martens)
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  • 5.1 (Fall 2018)
    • 5.1 Articles >
      • 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)
    • 5.1 Conversations >
      • 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)
    • 5.1 Spotlight >
      • Philip Graham, "The Shadow Knows (5.1)
      • Miles Harvey, "The Two Inmates: ​Research in Creative Nonfiction and the Power of “Outer Feeling”" (5.1)
      • Tim Hillegonds, "Making Fresh" (5.1)
      • Michele Morano, "Creating Meaning Through Structure" (5.1)
    • 5.1 Pedagogy >
      • 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)
  • Archives
    • Journal Index >
      • Author Index
      • Subject Index
    • 1.1 (Fall 2014) >
      • Editor's Note
      • 1.1 Articles >
        • 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)
      • 1.1 Conversations >
        • Donald Morrill, "An Industrious Enchantment" (1.1)
        • Sonya Huber, "Amazon Constellations" (1.1)
        • Derek Hinckley, "Fun Home: Change and Tradition in Graphic Memoir" (1.1)
        • Interview with Melanie Hoffert
        • Interview with Kelly Daniels
      • 1.1 Pedagogy >
        • Robert Brooke, "Teaching: 'Rhetoric: The Essay'" (1.1)
        • Richard Louth, "In Brief: Autobiography and Life Writing" (1.1)
    • 1.2 (Spring 2015) >
      • 1.2 Articles >
        • 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)
      • Conversations >
        • Doug Carlson, "Paul Gruchow and Brian Turner: Two Memoirs Go Cubistic" (1.2)
        • Patrick Madden, "Aliased Essayists" (1.2)
        • Beth Slattery, "Hello to All That" (1.2)
        • Interview with Michael Martone (1.2)
      • Spotlight >
        • Richard Louth, "The New Orleans Writing Marathon and the Writing World" (1.2)
        • Kelly Lock-McMillen, "Journey to the Center of a Writer's Block" (1.2)
        • Jeff Grinvalds, "Bringing It Back Home: The NOWM in My Classroom" (1.2)
        • Susan Martens, "Finding My Nonfiction Pedagogy Muse at the NOWM" (1.2)
      • Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • 2.1 (Fall 2015) >
      • Editor's Note2.1
      • Articles >
        • 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)
      • Conversations >
        • 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)
      • Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • Special Conference Issue
    • 2.2 (Spring 2016) >
      • Articles >
        • 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)
      • Conversations >
        • Julie Platt, "What Our Work is For: ​The Perils and Possibilities of Arts-Based Research" (2.2)
        • William Bradley, "On the Pleasure of Hazlitt" (2.2)
        • Jie Liu, "​'Thirteen Canada Geese': On the Video Essay" (2.2)
        • Stacy Murison, "​Memoir as Sympathy: Our Desire to be Understood" (2.2)
      • Pedagogy >
        • Stephanie Guedet, "​Feeling Human Again: Toward a Pedagogy of Radical Empathy" (2.2)
        • DeMisty Bellinger-Delfield, "Exhibiting Speculation in Nonfiction: Teaching 'What He Took'" (2.2)
        • Gail Folkins, "Straight from the Source: ​Primary Research and the Personality Profile" (2.2)
    • 3.1 (Fall 2016) >
      • 3.1 Articles >
        • 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)
      • 3.1 Conversations >
        • 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)
      • 3.1 Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • 3.2 (Spring 2017) >
      • 3.2 Articles >
        • 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)
      • 3.2 Conversations >
        • Thomas Larson, "What I Am Not Yet, I Am" (3.2)
        • Amanda Ake, "Vulnerability and the Page: Chloe Caldwell’s I’ll Tell You In Person"​ (3.2)
        • "Interview with Gail Griffin" (3.2)
        • Alysia Sawchyn, "On Best American Essays 1989" (3.2)
      • 3.2 Pedagogy >
        • 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)
    • 4.1 (Fall 2017) >
      • Editor's Note
      • 4.1 Articles >
        • 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"
      • 4.1 Conversations >
        • Taylor Brorby, "​On 'Dawn and Mary'"
        • Steven Harvey, "​From 'Leap'"
        • J. Drew Lanham, "​On 'Joyas Voladoras'"
        • Patrick Madden, "On 'His Last Game'"
        • Ana Maria Spagna, "On 'How We Wrestle is Who We Are'"
      • 4.1 Pedagogy >
        • Jacqueline Doyle, "Shuffling the Cards: ​I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer"
        • Amy E. Robillard, "Children Die No Matter How Hard We Try: What the Personal Essay Teaches Us About Reading"
    • 4.2 (Spring 2018) >
      • 4.2 Articles >
        • 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"
      • 4.2 Conversations >
        • 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"
      • 4.2 Pedagogy >
        • Sonya Huber, "Field Notes for a Vulnerable & Immersed Narrator" (4.2)
        • W. Scott Olsen, "In Other Words" (4.2)
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