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How to Heal the Lit/Comp Divide. ADE Bulletin, Number 158, 2020

September 7, 2020

Reaction to Ravitch: A different view of Common Core

BY VALERIE STRAUSS, Jan. 21, 2014

It’s the argument, stupid, not the text

BY VALERIE STRAUSS, February 26, 2013

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January 19, 2010

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December 6, 2009

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November 8, 2009

“An Immodest Proposal for Connecting High School and College.” with Cathy Birkenstein, College Composition and Communication 61.1 (September 2009):W409-416.

September 19, 2009

“The Unbearable Pointlessness of Literature Writing Assignments.” The Common Review. 8.2 (Fall 2009).

September 7, 2009

“An Argument Worth Having.” New York Times (5 September 2009).

September 5, 2009

“Presidential Address 2008: Courseocentrism.” PMLA 124.3 (May 2009): 727-744.

May 19, 2009

It’s Time to End ‘Courseocentrism’

January 13, 2009

“What We Say When We Don’t Talk About Creative Writing.” College English 71.3 (January 2009): 271-79.

January 3, 2009

“President’s Column: How ‘bout that Wordsworth!” MLA Newsletter 40.4 (Winter 2008): 3-4.

December 1, 2008

“President’s Column: Argument over Information.” MLA Newsletter 40.3 (Fall 2008): 3-4.

October 2, 2008

“President’s Column: Bringing Writing In From the Cold.” MLA Newsletter 40.2 (Summer 2008): 3-4.

July 10, 2008

“A Progressive Case for Educational Standardization.” with Cathy Birkenstein. Academe Online(May-June 2008).

May 17, 2008

“Point of View: In Teaching Composition, ‘Formulaic’ Is Not a Four-Letter Word.” with Cathy Birkenstein, The Chronicle of Higher Education (4 April 2008). also appeared in Style 42.1 (Spring 2008): 18-21.

April 4, 2008

“Teaching Literature and Writing.” Interview with John v. Knapp, Style 42.1 (Spring 2008): 1-17.

March 30, 2008

“President’s Column: Assessment Changes Everything.” MLA Newsletter 40.1 (Spring 2008).

March 12, 2008

Emory, Kim. “Outcomes Assessment and Standardization: A Queer Critique.”

March 4, 2008

Graff, Gerald. “Reply.”

March 4, 2008

Contribution to “Forum on Radical Teaching Now,” Radical Teacher 83, 2008:

April 10, 2008

“Our Undemocratic Curriculum.” Profession (2007): 128-35.

August 19, 2007

From Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise, Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham, eds., SUNY Press, 2004

2004

“Trickle-Down Obfuscation”

May 20, 2003

From Professions, Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies, Donald E. Hall, ed., University of Illinois Press, 2001

2001

“Teaching Politically Without Political Correctness.” Radical Teacher 58 (2000): 26-30.

August 19, 2000

Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society – Preface to 1995 Edition

August 1, 1995

A pedagogy of Counterauthority, or the Bully / Wimp Syndrome | Changing Classroom Practices

1994

From Introduction to Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy, Yale University Press Rethinking the Western Tradition Series, 1994

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Why Theory? | Left Politics and the Literary Profession

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“Interpretation on Tlön: A Response to Stanley Fish”

September 6, 1985