Said – Globalizing Literary Study
Said, Edward W. “Globalizing Literary Study.” PMLA 116 1 (2001): 64-68. Print. Said begins by acknowledging two intellectual frameworks/themes that need reworked for the contemporary English department: 1) literature exists in national frameworks (see Jay’s article for more); and 2) literary objects are stable and exist in a consistently identifiable form (64). S. also recognizes that author and work as autonomous, unified entities... Read More
Jay – Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English
Jay, Paul. “Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English.” PMLA 116 1 (2001): 32-47. Print. J. begins by noting that the nation-state is in increasingly less and less control of its own cultural change . . . culture isn’t bounded by national boundaries and has become something of a free-floating flow. This has a profound impact on the institutions of any nation state – education most prominently. J. goes through... Read More
Williams – Speak for Yourself? Power and Hybridity in the Cross-Cultural Classroom
Williams, Bronwyn T. “Speak for Yourself? Power and Hybridity in the Cross-Cultural Classroom.” College Composition and Communication 54 4 (2003): 586-609. Print. Abstract: In this article I use the lens of postcolonial theory to reflect on my uses of a varied series of writing pedagogies in cross-cultural classrooms at an international college. Such reflection helps reveal how relations of power between teacher and students and underlying... Read More
Warchauer – The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching
Warschauer, Mark. “The Changing Global Economy and the Future of English Teaching.” TESOL Quarterly 34 3 (2000): 511-35. Print. According to W., his work will investigate the effects of late capitalism (he calls it informationalism – following Castells – but it also goes by post-Fordism, post-industrialism, information economy, etc.) on the teaching of English language. Specifically he intends to cover three issues: 1)... Read More
Himley – Writing Programs and Pedagogies in a Globalized Landscape
Himley, Margaret. “Writing Programs and Pedagogies in a Globalized Landscape. WPA: Writing Program Administration 26 (2003): 49-66. H. uses Saskia Sassen’s work to frame globalization as an age of fluid movement of capital, bodies, and culture (49). She uses the SU lower-division writing sequence as a space to consider how curricular reform can explicitly recognize the processes and effects of globalization. H. claims that her work is... Read More
