Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The (Ir)relevance Of English At The Turn Of The Millennium

I Contexts: American Culture and the Study of English

The Academic Language Gap

When the Multicultural Leaves the Race: Some Common Terms Reconsidered

It's Not an Economy, Stupid The Education-as-Product Metaphor as Viewed from the English Classroom

Literacy, Gender, and Adolescence: School-Sponsored English as Identity Maintenance

On the Business of English Studies

Exchange: Economies, Politics, and English Studies Finders, North, Leonard, and Villanueva

II Changes: English Classrooms in an Evolving World

The High School English Teacher: A Relevant Member in a Good Tribe

Promoting a Relevant Classroom Literacy: Personal Grads and Communal Action in a Middle Grades Curricular Development Project

Women in Mind: The Culture of First-Year English and the Nontraditional Returning Woman Student

Community College English: Diverse Backgrounds, Diverse Needs

The Relevance of Paulo Freire on Liberatory Dialogue and Writing in the Classroom

Surviving Intact: African American Women Negotiating Scholarly Identities through Graduate School Writing

Exchange: Literacy, Classrooms, and Students' Lives Fox, Tinney, Kirklighter, Cheney, Robbins, Comfort

III Futures: English Studies for the New Millennium

The Future of English Studies Made Personal, or The Subversive Act of Teaching Well

Cybrarians and Scholars in the New English Classroom

The Past and Future of (Two-Year) College English Studies

Enacting Cultures: The Practice of Comparative Cultural Study

Critical Technological Literacy and English Studies: Teaching, Learning, and Action

The Plural Commons: Meeting the Future of English Studies

Exchange: Language, Technology, and the Future of English Studies Drye, Reynolds, Mathieu, Sosnoski, Richard J. Selfe, and Yancey

Afterword

Index

Editors

Contributors