How We Work

Contents: Marla Morris: Preface - Mary Aswell Doll: Foreword - William F. Pinar: Introduction - Mary Aswell Doll: The Web and the Work - Marla Morris: Curriculum as Musical Text - Jamake Highwater: The Fire Sermon - David W. Jardine: The Real Work Is What We Really Do - Denise Taliaferro: On Writing My Love Child - Dennis J. Sumara/Brent Davis: Inventing a More Interesting Subject - Toby Daspit: «Nothing's Died; It Just Got Buried»: Theory as Exhumation, as Duty Dance - Bill Davis: Why I Write - Peter Alson: How I Work - Jane Futcher: Acts of Love and Discovery - Alan A. Block: «Johnny's in the Basement, Mixing Up the Medicine,» or I'll Trade You Two Metaphors for a Metonymy - Lance Ternasky: Contrariety and Commitment: Wedding Passions - Mike Siddoway: On Lemmas, Theorems, Corollaries, and All That - Skip Fox: Many a New Thing - Rebecca Luce-Kapler: Through a Tangle of Branches: Reworking the Poem - Delese Wear: Writing with/in Leftovers - Susan Edgerton: «Whatever Gets You Through the Night» - William F. Pinar: How I Work - Petra Munro: A Truthful Tale About How I Work - Lewis Putnam Turco: Upstairs - Wendy Kohli: Writing the Classed Body: «Is It Work Yet?» - Gloria Anzaldúa: Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process - Marshall Parks: Should We Be Working?

The Editors: Marla Morris is completing her doctorate in curriculum theory at Louisiana State University. She has published articles in the fields of curriculum theory, philosophy of education, and religious studies.
Mary Aswell Doll is Professor of English at Our Lady of Holy Cross College. She is author of Beckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach, and To the Lighthouse and Back: Writings on Teaching and Living, and co-editor of In the Shadow of the Giant: Thomas Wolfe. Her book Like Letters in Running Water: A Mythopoetics of Curriculum is forthcoming. She has published articles in the fields of education, religion and literature, and women's studies.
William F. Pinar is the St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor of Curriculum Theory at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Autobiography, Politics, and Sexuality, senior author of Understanding Curriculum, and editor of Curriculum: Toward New Identities. His work emphasizes racial and queer theory, especially their intersections.