Reworking English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global Interrogations, Local Interventions

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MANY OF THE ideas and insights presented in this volume emerged out of work accomplished at the University of Louisville English department’s 2010 Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, “Working English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global/Local Contexts, Commitments, Consequences.” We are grateful to Min-Zhan Lu, the conference director, for designing and organizing that conference, and to Thomas Watson, whose bequest made the conference possible. We are grateful to JAC for permission to reprint portions of LuMing Mao’s essay “The Economics of Writing Writ Large: The Rhetoric of Cultural Nationalism,” which appeared in JAC 32.3–4 (2012): 513–39, and to the estate of Woody Guthrie for permission to reprint the poem “My People” by Woody Guthrie. We thank the University of Louisville’s Committee on Academic Publications for providing funding in support of this project, and for their support and encouragement we thank the University of Louisville English department’s outgoing chair, Susan Griffin; its incoming chair, Glynis Ridley; and other colleagues at the university. Thanks go to Karl Kageff of Southern Illinois University Press for his early interest in the project and for his support and guidance throughout, to Barb Martin and Wayne Larsen at the press for helping us see the book through to completion, and to Julie Bush for her scrupulous copyediting. Thanks go to our reviewers, Catherine Prendergast and Kate Mangelsdorf, who provided valuable suggestions on earlier versions of this collection, and to Nancy Bou Ayash and Kathryn Perry for their helpful research and editorial assistance. Thanks go most of all to our contributors, without whose efforts this book would not exist. Finally, we thank our families and friends for their patience and support as we worked on this book. REWORKING ENGLISH IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION ...