“An important and timely project, especially in forwarding a vision of teaching writing that steps outside of threshold concepts, writing about writing, and teaching for transfer. There are many teachers who have been quietly hoping for a fully articulated vision of writing that offers an alternative to these disciplinary approaches, which are valuable but limited. I also believe there are many scholars/teachers who value emotion, bodily knowledge, storytelling, place, and social engagement as key elements of teaching writing, which are central to Transforming Ethos.”
—Paula Mathieu, Boston College
"Through a careful synthesis of theory, personal explication, and pedagogical example, Carlo offers insight into how a transformative ethos—rooted in place and the material—is central to writing that produces identification across difference"
—Community Literacy Journal
"There is something in Transforming Ethos for almost everyone in the modern English Department, and Carlo’s attempts to synthesize these important works and concepts across English studies deserves high praise."
—Composition Forum
“Offers an important combination of theory and practice, which is a rare accomplishment in the larger scheme of scholarship in the discipline of rhetoric and composition.”
—Rhetoric Review