This analysis uses a critical race framework from African American literary studies (Morrison 1993, McBride 2001) to locate discourses of whiteness circulating between the texts of prison-based scholar-practitioners and their imprisoned counterparts, considering how those rhetorical economies risk marginalizing prisoners in an already vexed space. Recognizing the role of affect and bodily ritual in shaping… Continue reading Bodily Instruments: Somatic Metaphor in Prison-based Research by Libby Catchings

The collected essays in composing(media) = composing(embodiment): bodies, technologies, writing, the teaching of writing articulate our relationship with new media and current and emerging technologies as a dual process of embodiment: As producers of new media /technologies, we express what matters to us, yet as consumers we are always already carried into and through a… Continue reading Review: composing (media) = composing(embodiment): bodies, technologies, writing, the teaching of writing by Jennifer England