Failure Pedagogies

List of Figures - Chris Hay: Foreword: Failure, Fear, and Alternate Routes - Acknowledgments - Allison D. Carr/Laura R. Micciche: Introduction: Failure's Sweat - Caddie Alford: When One Door Closes, Another Opens; Or, Appreciating Clichés - Alba Newmann Holmes/Kara Wittman: The Costs of Clarity - Kate Pantelides: After the Accusation: The Lasting Impact of Plagiarism Trauma on Student Writing Behaviors - Darci L. Thoune: Failure Potential: Using Failure as Feedback - Jim Ridolfo: Rhetorical Velocity and Fake News - R.J. Lambert: Failure as Exigence: Accusation and Apology as Opportunities for (Re)invention - Nancy G. Barrón/Sibylle Gruber: Redefining Failure: Controlling a Sense of Self - Anne Dalke: A Force of Disruption: Refusing the Success/Failure Complex - Shari J. Stenberg/Stacey Waite: Who Survives the Witch Hunt? Supporting Our Students in a Process We Know Will Fail Them - Gavin P. Johnson/Ryan Sheehan: The Uses of Queer Failure: Navigating the Pedagogical Mandate of Happiness - Jeanette Lehn: Committing to Failure: Critical Pedagogy and Failure in Classroom Teaching - Cassandra Phillips/Joanne Baird Giordano: Messy Processes Into and Out of Failure: Professional Identities and Open-Access Writers - Michelle LaFrance: Failure to Wake? What #WPAListservFeministRevolution Tells Us About a "Feminist" Writing Studies - Julie Myatt: Persevering Even When "We Are All Full of Mad": A Lesson in the Value of Incremental Progress - Maria Novotny/Juliette Givhan: "You Google Infertility and You Don't See Me": Towards an Intersectional Framework Resisting the Rhetorical Slippages of Reproductive Activism - Kara Taczak/Debbie Gale Mitchell: Embracing the Ugly - Adam Hubrig: Narrativizing Dis/Ability: Deconstructing Institutional Uses of Disability Narratives - Aja Y Martinez: Papelitos Guardados, Part I: On Collegiality and Failure - Asao B. Inoue: Afterword: Failure and Letting Go - Contributors - Index.

Allison D. Carr, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Coe College (IA), earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 2014. Her work has appeared in Composition Forum, Pedagogy, Computers & Composition Online, and multiple edited volumes.



Laura R. Micciche, Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999. She has published three books on writing and emotion and recently completed a six-year term editing Composition Studies.