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Writing in and about the Performing and Visual Arts

Creating, Performing, and Teaching

edited by Steven J. Corbett, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, Teagan E. Decker & Betsy Cooper

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The performing and visual arts have much to offer writing studies in terms of process, creativity, design, delivery, and habits of mind (and body). This collection is intended for teachers and researchers of writing in and across the disciplines, in both secondary and post-secondary settings, and for those outside of writing studies who wish to infuse more writing into their performing and visual arts curriculums and courses. Filled with evocative images and vivid descriptions, contributors showcase ways of knowing and doing in the performing and visual arts. Contributors also offer teachers in the performing and visual arts go-to practical designs and strategies for teaching writing in their fields.

This book is also available as an open access ebook through the WAC Clearinghouse.

Steven J. Corbett is director of the University Writing Center and associate professor of English at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. He is the author of Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies and coeditor of Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Theory and Practice in Peer Review and Response for the Writing Classroom; Student Peer Review and Response: A Critical Sourcebook; and Writing in and about the Performing and Visual Arts: Creating, Performing, and Teaching. His articles on writing and rhetoric pedagogy have appeared in a variety of journals, periodicals, and collections.

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier is assistant professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Colgate University, received her Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Language and Rhetoric from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on how movement practices are integral to the creation and reception of rhetoric. Her work can be found in such publications as College Composition and Communication, POROI, Rhetoric Review, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Teagan E. Decker is professor of English and dean of the Esther G. Maynor Honors College at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. She served as writing center director at UNCP from 2007 to 2014. Her most recent publication is the coedited collection Writing In and About the Performing and Visual Arts: Creating, Performing, and Teaching.

Betsy Cooper chairs the Department of Dance at California State University, Long Beach. She directed the University of Washington's dance department from 2001-2013, later serving as Divisional Dean of Arts. Betsy has enjoyed a decades-long performance career with classical and contemporary companies, nationally and abroad. Her scholarship probes the intersections of dance, politics, and censorship of the body in early modern dance and Hollywood musicals, and the uses of embodied and reflective writing to promote engaged learning. Betsy holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington, and a BA, cum laude, from Yale University.

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  • Paperback Price: $36.00
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-64642-024-7
  • Publication Month: May
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Pages: 326
  • Discount Type: Short
  • Author: edited by Steven J. Corbett, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, Teagan E. Decker & Betsy Cooper
  • ECommerce Code: 978-1-64642-024-7

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