Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher. Rather than positioning queerness as connected only to queer texts or queer teachers/students (as much work on queer pedagogy has done since the 1990s), this book offers writing and teaching as already queer practices, and contends that the overlap between queer theory and composition presents new possibilities for teaching writing. Teaching Queer argues for and enacts "queer forms"―non-normative and category-resistant forms of writing―those that move between the critical and the creative, the theoretical and the practical, and the queer and the often invisible normative functions of classrooms.

Stacey Waite is the Susan Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska and the author of Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing. Waite is also the coeditor of the eleventh edition of the Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers and The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2011 and has published four collections of poetry.