Reading with Jessica Yood:The Composition Commons: Writing a New Idea of the University In-Person
The Composition Commons delivers a timely take on invigorating higher education, illustrating how college composition courses can be dynamic sites for producing a democratic, just, and generally educated public.
Jessica Yood traces the century-long origins of a writing-centered idea of the American university and tracks resurgence of this idea today. Drawing on archival and classroom evidence from public colleges and universities and written in a lively autoethnographic voice, Yood names genres of the commons: intimate, informal writing activities that create peer-to-peer knowledge networks. She shows how these unique genres create collectivity – an academic commons - and calls on scholars to invest in composition as a course cultivating reflective, emergent, shared knowledge.
The Composition Commons reclaims the commons as critical idea and writing classroom activities as essential practices for remaking higher education in the United States.
Jessica Yood is Associate Professor of English at Lehman College.
- Date:
- Tuesday, September 24, 2024
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- TreeHouse
- Categories:
- Library Event Reading