This article presents highlights from “Education in the Balance: A Report on the Academic Workforce in English,” the 2008 ADE/MLA survey of staffing patterns in English departments. It raises questions about the increased institutional separation of research and teaching.

First published in 1985, David Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University” has become perhaps the most often cited and discussed essay in composition studies. On the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, the editor of College English interviews Bartholomae about the essay’s background, subsequent reception, and continued impact.

Review Article| October 01 2001 The Life of the Author David Bartholomae David Bartholomae Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pedagogy (2001) 1 (3): 590–592. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-1-3-590 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Bartholomae; The Life of the Author. Pedagogy 1 October 2001; 1 (3): 590–592. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-1-3-590 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsPedagogy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2001 Duke University Press2001 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Roundtable: Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers You do not currently have access to this content.

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This is the first book-length study of the status of composition in English studies and the uneasy relationship between composition and literature. Composition studies and institutional histories of English studies have long needed this kind of clarification of the historical and political contexts of composition teaching, research, and administration. Susan Miller argues that composition constitutes a major national industry, citing the four million freshman-level students enrolled in such courses each year, the $40 million annual expenditure for textbooks, and the more than $50 million in teacher salaries. But this concrete magnitude is not expressed in political power within departments. Miller calls on her associates in composition to engage in a persistent critique of the social practices and political agenda of the discipline that have been responsible for its institutional marginalization. Drawing on her own long experience as a composition administrator, teacher, and scholar, as well as on a national survey of composition professionals, Miller argues that composition teachers inadvertently continue to foster the negative myth about composition' s place in the English studies hierarchy by assuming an assigned, self-sacrificial cultural identity. Composition has been regarded as subcollegiate, practical, a how-to, and has been denied intellectual rigor in order to preserve literature' s presentations of quasi-religious textual ideals. Winner of three major book awards: The Modern Language Association' s Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize The Conference on College Composition and Communication' s Outstanding Book Award The Teachers of Advanced Composition' s W. Ross Winterowd Award

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Gary Tate, ed., Teaching Composition: Twelve Bibliographical Essays. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1987. xiv + 434 pages. Stephen M. North, The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field. Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1987. 403 pages.

This is a book about reading, writing, and teaching and the ways each can be imagined as composition. The authors bring together eight years of teaching and research connected with the integrated basic reading and writing course developed at the University of Pittsburgh. The approach offered here--widely discussed in professional journals--has been tested at several universities, as well as at the high school level.