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Talking About Writing: Scenes of Writing Workshops in History and Practice
Abstract
This dissertation envisions the writing workshop as a space where we do essential political and social work—where we can reimagine writing, and the teaching of writing, in more interdependent and inclusive ways. This research responds to the work of BIPOC writers and scholars who have urged those of us in Writing Studies to address the homogeneity of the workshop’s history, and to revise its exclusionary logics. Drawing on interviews and observations of teachers in undergraduate creative writing and composition classrooms across the United States, the author examines what actually happens when students talk together about their in-progress writing. This dissertation reveals how workshop pedagogies are shaped by our pasts as students, and considers the ways we might resist or reimagine those pasts. It considers the ways that workshops, which are often framed as a liberatory pedagogy, always involve negotiations between control and freedom, both for educators and for students. And it shows that writing workshops depend upon deeply vulnerable, relational work—work that has radical potential to change the way we think about teaching writing.
Subject Area
Rhetoric and Composition|Pedagogy|Creative writing
Recommended Citation
Luckert, Erika, "Talking About Writing: Scenes of Writing Workshops in History and Practice" (2024). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI31240450.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI31240450