Power and Identity In the Creative Writing Classroom remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes creative writing pedagogy for the 21st century.
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Foreword — Anna Leahy
Part 1: Understanding the Larger Influences
1. Personal Therapeutic Writing vs. Literary Writing — Nancy Kuhl
2. Who Cares—and How: The Value and Cost of Nurturing — Anna Leahy
3. Inspiration, Creativity, and Crisis: The Romantic Myth of the Writer Meets the Contemporary Classroom — Brent Royster
4. Reinventing Writing Classrooms: The Combination of Creating and Composing — Evie Yoder Miller
5. The Double Bind and Stumbling Blocks: A Case Study as an Argument for Authority-Conscious Pedagogy — Carl Vandermeulen
Part 2: The Teacher’s Place, Voice, and Style
6. Teaching and Evaluation: Why Bother? — Mary Cantrell
7. Who’s the Teacher?: From Student to Mentor — Audrey Petty
8. The Pregnant Muse: Assumptions, Authority, and Accessibility — Rachel Hall
9. Dismantling Authority: Teaching What We Do Not Know — Katharine Haake
Part 3: Course Design
10. Contracts, Radical Revision, Portfolios, and the Risks of Writing — Wendy Bishop
11. An ‘A’ for Effort: How Grading Policies Shape Courses — Suzanne Greenberg
12. Gender and Authorship: How Assumptions Shape Perceptions and Pedagogies — Susan Hubbard
13. Writing the Community: Service Learning in Creative Writing — Argie Manolis
Part 4: In the Classroom
14. Where Do You Want Me To Sit?: Defining Authority through Metaphor — Cathy Day
15. Duck, Duck, Turkey: Using Encouragement To Structure Workshop Assignments — Mary Swander
16. How To Avoid Workshop Dilemmas: The Use of Myth to Teach Writerly Concepts — Amy Sage Webb
17. Writing in the Shadows: Topics, Models, and Audiences that Focus on Language — Sandy Feinstein
Afterword
The Reason It Is: the Rhyme It Isn’t — Graeme Harper and Stephanie Vanderslice