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EDUCATION/COMPOSITION STUDIES “This is the most comprehensive history of English studies in the United States ever written. Fortunately, it is also the best. It will not only set the standard for histories of the field but also, in many ways, the agenda for the field into the postpostmodern era.” —David Russell, Iowa State University “Miller’s new history of English studies successfully accounts for transhistorical literate practices in and around the field. His work remembers that English is a vernacular that emerged from religious, political, economic, multiple-gendered, and specifically schooled moments to become ‘English’ as a profession. Miller simultaneously expands the range and corrects the biases of previous histories of our profession in an instantaneously sensible paradigm we need at another crucial moment, one redefining its legitimacy.” —Susan J. Miller, University of Utah In The Evolution of College English,Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and presents a history of how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments . He maps out “four corners” of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies their development with changes in the technologies and economies of literacy that have redefined what students write and read, which careers they enter, and how literature represents their experiences and aspirations . Miller looks to comprehensive departments of English that value studies of teaching, writing, and language as well as literature. He also examines broadly based institutions that are engaged with writing at work in public life, with schools and public agencies, with access issues, and with media, ethnic, and cultural studies. With the growing privatization of higher education, such pragmatic engagements become vital to sustaining a civic vision of English studies and the humanities generally. Thomas P . Miller is associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the author of The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces, a winner of the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize. PITTSBURGH SERIES IN COMPOSITION, LITERACY, AND CULTURE University of Pittsburgh Press www.upress.pitt.edu Cover art: Marcus Miller Cover design: Chiquita Babb 9 7 8 0 8 2 2 9 6 1 1 6 1 ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-6116-1 ISBN 10: 0-8229-6116-4 ...

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