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"The Necessity of Genre Disruption in Organizing an Advocacy Space for and by Graduate Students"

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About the Authors

Ashanka Kumari is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University – Commerce where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition and rhetoric. Her current research centers first-generation-to-college graduate students and the ways they negotiate the expectations of academia with their lives and other obligations. She is a founding member of the nextGEN Listserv.

Sweta Baniya is from Nepal and currently a Doctoral Candidate at Purdue University. She is working on her dissertation project that studies the emergence of transnational assemblages during Nepal Earthquake 2015 and Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria 2017. She is one of the founding members /moderators of nextGEN.

Kyle Larson is a PhD Candidate at Miami University (OH). His research on counterpublic writing and rhetorics has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, Peitho, and most recently Rhetoric Society Quarterly. At Miami, he teaches cultural studies courses on public writing and activist rhetorics. He also collaborates with students of color on campus to build and organize an insurgent, grassroots education program called Racial Consciousness 101 (race101mu.org). His current research focuses on the rhetorical processes by which social movements emerge and acquire power in the public sphere. He is a founding member of nextGEN.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Disruption

Part 2: Sacrifice

Part 3: Escalation

References

References

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Glotfelter, A., & Tham, J. (2018, November 13). Becoming the next generation: An interview with the founders of the nextGEN Listserv. http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2018/11/13/becoming-the-next-generation-an-interview-with-the-founders-of-the-nextgen-listserv/

Flaherty, C. (2019, March 28). More than hateful words. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/03/28/racist-writing-instructors-listserv-post-prompts-debate-about-future-field-and-how

Kynard, C. (2013). Vernacular insurrections: Race, Black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies. SUNY Press.

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Nowacek, R. (2011). Agents of integration: Understanding transfer as a rhetorical act. Southern Illinois University Press.

Presswood, A., & Schwarz, V. M. (2020). Mentorship, affordability, and equity: Ways forward in writing program administration. [Symposium on the status of graduate study in rhetoric and composition]. Xchanges, 15(1), 1-7. http://www.xchanges.org/mentorship-affordability-and-equity

VanHaitsma, P., & Ceraso, S. (2017). “Making it” in the academy through horizontal mentoring. Peitho Journal, 19(2), 210-233. http://peitho.cwshrc.org/making-it-in-the-academy-through-horizontal-mentoring/

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Posted by xcheditor on May 17, 2021 in article, Issue 15.1

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