Language Arts
Black Feminist Writing
Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.
The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing
Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication
Amplifying Voices in UX
Designers can create stronger products by considering multiple users with varied perspectives and thus create balance, termed equilibriUX, in their designs.
Invisible Forces
Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.
Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.
Welding Technical Communication
Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.
Post-Chineseness
Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.
Translating Buddhism
Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.
Joan Didion
Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.
Bordered Writers
Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.
Dao and Sign in History
Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.
The Room Is on Fire
Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Reflecting Pool
Both an anthology and an informal textbook that features poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets.
Getting Personal
Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members.
Peaceful Persuasion
Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
Creating Nonfiction
A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
The Lure of Literacy
Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses.
The Other Side of Pedagogy
Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.
Letters to a Best Friend
A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.
Borges, Second Edition
Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.
Chinese through Song, Second Edition
An innovative approach to teaching Chinese language and culture, using folk and popular songs.
Vernacular Insurrections
Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
Figuring Religions
Offers new ways of comparing features of the world’s religions.