Contents
Foreword | Patricia Roberts-Miller
Acknowledgments | Daniel P. Richards
Introduction: The Politics, Praxis, and Performativity of Teacher Neutrality | Daniel P. Richards
Section I: Politics
1. The Limits of Neutrality: How New Graduate Instructors Negotiate Politics, Race, and Ideology in the Composition Classroom | Meaghan Brewer
2. Living in Contradiction: Translingual Writing Pedagogies and the Two-Year College | Jason C. Evans
3. Walking the Narrow Ridge: When Performing Neutrality Isn’t an Option in the Vocation of the Christian Professor | Jessica Clements
4. Contingent Faculty, Student Evaluation, and Pedagogical Neutrality | Robert Samuels
5. The Non-Controversy and Controversy of Neutrality: A Conversation with John Trimbur | Daniel P. Richards
Section II: Praxis
6. Strangers on Their Own Campus: Listening across Difference in Qualitative Research | Kelly Blewett, with Tyler S.
7. Believing Critically: Teaching Critical Thinking through the Conversion Narrative | Christopher Michael Brown
8. Ideology through Process and Slow-Start Pedagogy: Co-Constructing the Path of Least Resistance in the Social Justice Writing Classroom | Lauren F. Lichty and Karen Rosenberg
9. Transparency as a Defense-Less Act: Shining Light on Emerging Ideologies in an Activist Writing and Research Course | Heather Fester
10. It Depends on the Context: Cultural Competencies in First-Year English | Mara Holt
11. The Mêtis of Reliability: Using the Framework for Success to Aid the Performance of Neutrality within Writing Assessment | Tristan Abbott
12. Massive Open Ideology: Ideological Neutrality in Arizona State’s Composition MOOCs | Adam Pacton
Section III: Performativity
13. Encounters with Friction: Engaging Resistance through Strategic Neutrality | Romeo García and Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa
14. Turning Resistances into Engagement | Erika Johnson and Tawny LeBouef Tullia
15. Who Is Afraid of Neutrality? Performativity, Resignification, and the Jena Six in the Composition Classroom | David P. Stubblefield and Chad Chisholm
16. Moving from Transparent to Translucent Pedagogy | Jennifer Thomas and Allison L. Rowland
Section IV: Conclusion
17. Full Disclosure / Now What? | Daniel P. Richards
About the Authors
Index