Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2010 Open Access

Change is Really Hard Work: An Interview with Jeffrey Grabill

Paula Mathieu

Abstract

Paula Mathieu is an associate professor of English at Boston College, where she directs the First-Year Writing Program and the Writing Fellows Program. For more than a decade she has also worked with the international movement of street newspapers, local publications that provide income and a public voice for people who are homeless or living in poverty. With David Downing and Claude Mark Hurlbert she co-edited Beyond English Inc: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy (Boynton/Cook, 2001). In 2005, Mathieu published her seminal text (in my humble opinion), Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in English Composition. In 2007 she received the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC) Rachel Corrie Courage in the Teaching of Writing Award. She has published articles in College Composition and Communication (CCC) and in The Public Work of Rhetoric with Diana George. Mathieu is a CCCCs executive committee member and has been a member of the Reflections Civic Scholarship Outstanding Book Award committee for the past two years; she graciously agreed to conduct this interview at my request.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2010-09-01
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10.59236/rjv10i1pp195-205
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  1. Grabill (2007)
    Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action
  2. Rhetoric, and American Cultures
  3. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. <https ://www.msu . edu/~wrac/faculty_staff/grabill.html>.
  4. Grabill (2007)
    Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action
  5. Rhetoric, and American Cultures
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  1. Web. 13 Nov. 2010. <https ://www.msu . edu/~wrac/faculty_staff/grabill.html>.
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