Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies

Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies coordinates mixed methods approaches to survey, interview, and case study data to study Canadian writing studies scholars. The authors argue for networked disciplinarity, the notion that ideas arise and flow through intellectual networks that connect scholars not only to one another but to widening networks of human and nonhuman actors. Although the Canadian field is historically rooted in the themes of location and national culture, expressing a tension between Canadian independence and dependence on the US field, more recent research suggests a more hybridized North American scholarship rather than one defined in opposition to “rhetoric and composition” in the US. In tracing identities, roles, and rituals of nationally bound considerations of how disciplinarity has been constructed through distant and close methods, this multi-scaled, multi-scopic approach examines the texture of interdependent constructions of the Canadian discipline.

Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies also launches a collaborative publishing network between Canadian publisher Inkshed and US publisher Parlor Press.

Jennifer Clary-Lemon is Associate Professor in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. Andrea Abernethy Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English, Emerita, at Stanford University. Derek Mueller is Associate Professor of Written Communication and Director of the First-year Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. Louise Wetherbee Phelps is Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Old Dominion University and Emeritus Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. Andrea Williams is Associate Professor of Writing Instruction in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto.