Williams, Bronwyn T., editorUtah State University Press, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032006http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87920Edited by Bronwyn T. Williams.Includes bibliographical references and index.How do definitions of literacy in the academy, and the pedagogies that reinforce such definitions, influence and shape our identities as teachers, scholars, and students? The contributors gathered here reflect on those moments when the dominant cultural and institutional definitions of our identities conflict with our other identities, shaped by class, race, gender, sexual orientation, location, or other cultural factors.Introduction: literacy, power, and the shaping of identity / Bronwyn T. Williams -- Institutions and struggles for identity -- Social class as discourse: the construction of subjectivities in English / James Zebroski -- Excellence is the name of the (ideological) game / Patricia Harkin -- The feminist WPA project: fear and possibility in the feminist "home" / Shannon Carter -- When "MS. Mentor" misses the mark: literacy and lesbian identity in the academy / Tara Pauliny -- Identity in the composition classroom -- She toiled for a living: writing lives and identities of older female students / Mary Hallet -- Literacy, identity, and the "successful" student writer / William Carpenter and Bianca Falbo -- Speaking from the borderlands: exploring narratives of teacher identity / Janet Alsup -- "Who are they and what do they have to do with what i want to be?" the writing of multicultural identity and college success stories for first-year writers / James R. Ottery -- Identity outside the institutional walls -- Migratory and regional identity / Robert Brooke -- Some trouble with discourses: what conflicts between subjects and ethnographers tell us about what students don't/won't/can't say / Sally Chandler -- Composing (identity) in a posttraumatic age / Lynn Worsham -- Conclusion: working bodies: class matters in college composition / Min-zhan Lu.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Literacy -- Social aspects -- United StatesEducation, Higher -- United StatesTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.