JAC Reader Response Essays

One of the signature features of JAC is the response essays which we solicit in order to achieve an ongoing scholarly dialogue.

In Response to: "Cassette Commentary: An Approach to the Teaching of Expository Writing" by Alexander Medlicott Jr., JAC 1
"A Reply to Medlicott: Evaluating Writing," by Karen Pelz, JAC 1
In Response to: "Social Construction and Composition Theory: A Conversation with Richard Rorty," interview by Gary Olson, JAC 9.1
"Response to the JAC Interview with Richard Rorty," by Kenneth A. Bruffee, JAC 10.1
"On Personally Constructing 'Social Construction': A Response to Richard Rorty," by John Schilb, JAC 10.1
In Response to: "The Legacy of Positivism in Empirical Composition Research," by Carol Berkenkotter , JAC 9.1
"Hurling Epithets at the Devils You Know: A Response to Carol Berkenkotter," by David Foster, JAC 10.1
"The Ideology of 'Epistemological Ecumenicalism': A Response to Carol Berkenkotter," by John Schilb, JAC 10.1
In Response to: "Jacques Derrida on Rhetoric and Composition: A Conversation," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 10.1
"'Where Have You Come from, Reb Derissa, and Where Are you Going?': Gary Olson's Interview with Jacques Derrida," by Jasper Neel, JAC 10.2
"Jacques Derrida on Teaching and Rhetoric: A Response," by Sharon Crowley, JAC 10.2
In Response to: "Prose Any Other Name: A Context for Teaching the Rhetoric of Titles," by Sam Meyer, JAC 8.1
"No Title: A Response to Sam Meyer," by Richard H. Haswell, JAC 10.2
"Let's Continue to Take It from the Top: A Response to Richard Haswell," by Sam Meyer, JAC 10.2
In Response to: "Composition, Collaboration, and Women's Ways of Knowing: A Conversation with Mary Belenky," interview by Evelyn Ashton-Jones and Dene Kay Thomas, JAC 10.2
"Politicizing the Composing Process and Women’s Ways of Interacting: A Response to 'A Conversation with Mary Belenky,'" by Elizabeth A. Flynn, JAC 11.1
"Dueling with Dualism: A Response to Interviews with Mary Field Belenky and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak," by Marilyn M. Cooper, JAC 11.1 (NOTE: This article is also a response to the article below and is listed in both places.)
In Response to: "Rhetoric and Cultural Explanations: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," interview by Phillip Sipiora and Janet Atwill, JAC 10.2
"Talking Differently: A Response to Gayatri Spivak," by John Clifford, JAC 11.1
"Toward a Productive Crisis: A Response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," by Thomas Kent, JAC 11.1
"Dueling with Dualism: A Response to Interviews with Mary Field Belenky and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak," by Marilyn M. Cooper, JAC 11.1 (NOTE: This article is also a response to the article above and is listed in both places.)
In Response to: "Language, Politics, and Composition: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky," interview by Gary A. Olson and Lester Faigley, JAC 11.1
"Language and the Facilitation of Authority: The Discourse of Noam Chomsky," by Robert de Beaugrande, JAC 11.2
"Response to 'Language, Politics, and Composition: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky,'" by James Sledd, JAC 11.2
In Response to: "The Affective Domain and the Writing Process: Working Definitions," by Susan H. Mcleod, JAC 11.1
"Defining Affect in Relation to Cognition: A Response to Susan Mcleod," by Kristie S. Fleckenstein , JAC 11.2
"Reply to Kristie Fleckenstein," by Susan McLeod'," JAC 11.2
In Response to: "The Social Scientist as Author: Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 11.2
"The Somewhat Unitary World of Clifford Geertz," by Linda Brodkey, JAC 12.1
"Clifford Geertz on Writing and Rhetoric," by Lisa Ede, JAC 12.1
In Response to: "Why the Wyoming Resolution Had to Be Emasculated: A History and a Quixotism," by James Sledd JAC 11.2
"Work with Us, James Sledd: A Response," by M. Elizabeth Wallace, JAC 12.1
"The Nasty Old Man Replies," by James Sledd, JAC 12.1
In Response to: "History, Praxis, and Change: Paulo Freire and the Politics of Literacy," by Gary Olson, JAC 12.1
"A Response to Gary Olson's Interview with Paulo Freire," by C. H. Knoblauch, JAC 12.2
"Freirean Pedagogy in the U.S.: A Response," by James A. Berlin, JAC 12.2
In Response to: "The Agon Over What 'Composition Research' Means," by Phillip Arrington, JAC 11.2
"'A Note to JAC Readers," by Janice M. Lauer, JAC 12.2
"The Agon Continues: A Reply to Janice Lauer," by Phillip Arrington, JAC 12.2
In Response to: "Externalism and the Production of Discourse," by Thomas Kent, JAC 12.1
"Thomas Kent and Donald Davidson: The Peril of Communication," by Alan G. Gross, JAC 12.2
"The Hope of Communication," by Thomas Kent, JAC 12.2
In Response to: "Fish Tales: A Conversation with 'The Contemporary Sophist,'" interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 12.2
"A Response to 'Fish Tales: A Conversation with The Contemporary Sophist,'" by Patricia Bizzell, JAC 13.1
"'Fish Tales' and the Politics of Anti-Professionalism," by John Trimbur, JAC 13.1
"Don't Know Much about Automobiles: Fish's Anti-Theory Theory," by Fredric G. Gale, JAC 13.1
In Response to: "The History of Composition: Reclaiming Our Lost Generations," by Robin Varnum, JAC 12.1
"A Response to 'The History of Composition: Reclaiming Our Lost Generations,'" by Janice M. Lauer, JAC 13.1
"A Reply to Janice Lauer," by Robin Varnum, JAC 13.1
In Response to: "Language Philosophy, Writing, and Reading: A Conversation with Donald Davidson," by Thomas Kent, JAC 13.1
"The Malaprop in Spite of Herself: A Seperate Reading of Donald Davidson," by Susan White, JAC 13.2
"A Response to 'Language Philosophy, Writing, and Reading: A Conversation with Donald Davidson,'" by Reed Way Dasenbrock, JAC 13.2
"Speech-Acts, Conventions, and Voice: Challenges to a Davidsonian Conception of Writing," by Thomas G. O'Donnell, JAC 14.2
"A Reply to Thomas G. O'Donnell," by Reed Way Dasenbrock, JAC 14.2
In Response to: "Articulation Theory and the Problem of Determination: A Reading of Lives on the Boundary," by John Trimbur , JAC 13.1
"Building a Rose Garden: A Response to John Trimbur," by Mark Wiley, JAC 13.2
In Response to: "Literary Theory, Philosophy of Science, and Persuasive Discourse: Thoughts from a Neo-premodernist," interview by Gary A. Olson (with Stephen Toulmin), JAC 13.2
"'The Good Man Speaking Well,' or Business as Usual," by Arabella Lyon, JAC 14.1
"Novissimum Organum: Phronesis on the Rebound," by C. Jan Swearingen, JAC 14.1
In Response to: "A Postermodern Critique of the Modern Projects of Fedric Jameson and Patricia Bizzell," by Nancy McKoski, JAC 13.2
"Are Shared Discourses Desirable? A Response to Nancy McKoski," by Patricia Bizzell, JAC 14.1
In Response to: "Vygotsky, Dewey, and Externalism: Beyond the Student/Discipline Dichotomy," by David R. Russell, JAC 13.1
"Piaget's Structuralism: A Response to David Russell," by C. David Brell, JAC 14.1
"Piaget's Structuralism: A Reply," by David R. Russell, JAC 14.1
In Response to: "Postcards from the Edge," by Jane Tompkins, JAC 13.2
"A Response to Jane Tompkins," by Helen Rothschild Ewald, JAC 14.1
In Response to: "bell hooks and the Politics of Literacy: a Conversation," interview by Gary A. Olson , JAC 14.1
"bell hooks on Literacy and Teaching: A Response," by Joyce Irene Middleton, JAC 14.2
"Literacy and Activism: A Response to bell hooks," by Tom Fox, JAC 14.2
In Response to: "Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition by Lester Faigley," review by David Bleich, JAC 14.1
"David Bleich and the Politics of Anti-Intellectualism: A Response," by Raul Sanchez, Jr., JAC 14.2
In Response to: "Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and the Future of Critical Studies: A Conversation with J. Hillis Miller," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 14.2
"On Transforming the English Department: A Response to J. Hillis Miller," by Patricia Harkin, JAC 15.1
"Learning About Learning About Deconstruction: An Epi(tryingtobe)gone," by Jasper Neel, JAC 15.1
In Response to: "Jane Tompkins and the Politics of Writing, Scholarship, and Pedagogy," by
Gary A. Olson, JAC 15.1
"Encounters with Jane Tompkins," by Susan C. Jarratt, JAC 15.2
"Lit/Comp: A Response to Jane Tompkins," by Elizabeth A. Flynn, JAC 15.2
In Response to: "Spinning Like a Kite: A Closer Look at the Pseudotransactional Function of Writing," by Joseph Petraglia, JAC 15.1
"A Pragmatist Response to Joseph Petraglia," by Omar Swartz, JAC 15.2
"A Realist Reply to 'A Pragmatist Response,'" by Joseph Petraglia, JAC 15.2
In Response to: "Hall of Mirrors: Antifoundationalist Theory and the Teaching of Writing," by David W. Smit, JAC 15.1
"Appealing to Philosophy in Composition Studies," by Daniel J. Royer, JAC 15.2
"Reply to Daniel J. Royer, 'Appealing to Philosophy in Composition Studies,'" by David W. Smit, JAC 15.2
In Response to: "Starting from Marginalized Lives: A Conversation with Sandra Harding," interview by Elizabeth Hirsh and Gary A. Olson, JAC 15.2
"Romancing the Stones: My Movie Date with Sandra Harding," by Lynn Worsham, JAC 15.3
"Who's Sandra Harding? Where's She Standing?" by Arabella Lyon and Mary Conway, JAC 15.3
In Response to: "Resisting a Discourse of Mastery: A Conversation with Jean-François Lyotard," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 15.3
"Writing as Resistance," by Elizabeth A. Flynn, JAC 16.1
"Waiting for the Other: Lyotard on Writing, Resistance, and Potential," by Debra Jacobs, JAC 16.1
In Response to: "I'm OK, You're (Not) OK: Teaching in a World of Relativism," by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, JAC 15.3
"What's Epistemology Got To Do With It?: A Response to Phyllis Mentzell Ryder," by Tom O'Donnell, JAC 16.3
"Putting "it" in Context: Diversity in Composition Classes," by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, JAC 16.3
In Response to: "Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy of Imitation," by Mary Minock, JAC 15.3
"Imitation and Composition Pedagogy: A Response to Mary Minock," by Phillip K. Arrington, JAC 16.3
"Imitation Pedagogy: Postmodernist or No, A Response to Phillip Arrington," by Mary Minock, JAC 16.3
In Response to: "Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson," by Sidney I. Dobrin, JAC 17.2
"On Different Ground: A Response to Michael Eric Dyson," by Malea Powell, JAC 17.3
In Response to: "Community and Cohesion in the Writing/Reading Classroom," by David Foster, JAC 17.3
"Changing the Paradigmatic Terms: A Response to David Foster," by Donald C. Jones, JAC 18.2
In Response to: "Cultural Composition: Stuart Hall on Ethnicity and the Discursive Turn," interview by Julie Drew
"The Specificity of the Writing Classroom: A Response to Stuart Hall," by Gordon Grant, JAC 18.3
In Response to: "Staging the Politics of Difference: Homi Bhaba's Critical Literacy, interview by Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham, JAC 18.3
"A Language of Possibility: A Response to Homi Bhabha," by Joe Marshall Hardin, JAC 19.1
"Making the Political More Pedagogical: Reading Homi Bhabha," by Susan Searls Giroux and Henry A. Giroux, JAC 19.1
In Response to: "Hegemony and the Future of Democracy: Ernesto Laclau's Political Philosophy," interview by Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson, JAC 19.1
"The Political of Post-Marxism: Radical Democracy and Class Struggle," by John Trimbur, JAC 19.2
"The Politics of Persuading: Ernesto Laclau and the Question of Discursive Force," by Julie Drew, JAC 19.2
In Response to: "Rethinking Political Community: Chantal Mouffe's Liberal Socialism," by Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson , JAC 19.2
"Agonizing [With] Chantal Mouffe," by D. Diane Davis, JAC 19.3
" Worrying Democracy: Chantal Mouffe and the Return of Politicized Rhetoric," by Donna Strickland, JAC 19.3
In Response to: "(Teaching) Writing: Composition, Cultural Studies, Production," by Julie Drew, JAC 19.3
"'The Wasteland Grows': Or, What is "Cultural Studies for Composition" and Why Must We Always Speak Good of It?: ParaResponse to Julie Drew," by Victor J. Vitanza, JAC 19.4
"On Critique, Cultural Studies, and Community: A Regular Sort of Reply to Victor Vitanza," by Julie Drew, JAC 19.4
In Response to: " "
"On the Discipline and Pleasure of Perilous Acts," by Lynn Worsham, JAC 19.4
"On the Pleasure of Misreading: T. R. Johnson Replies to Lynn Worsham," by T. R. Johnson, JAC 19.4
In Response to: "Reading Student Resistance: The Case of the Missing Other," by Richard Boyd, JAC 19.4
"René Girard and the Dynamics of Imitation, Scapegoating, and Renunciative Identification: A Response to Richard Boyd," by Robert Brooke, JAC 20.1
In Response to: "Yes, We Eat Dog Back Home": Contrasting Disciplinary Discourse and Praxis on Diversity," by Sue Hum, JAC 19.4
"All Us People with WEM-CHMAIs Working the In-Between: A Response to Sue Hum," by Patrick McGann, JAC 20.1
"Choice and the Contraditions of Identity Politics: A Reply to Pat McGann," by Sue Hum, JAC 20.2
"Working the In-Between Ever more Consciously: A Reply to Sue Hum," by Patrick McGann, JAC 20.2
In Response to: "'Addicted to Love'; Or, Toward an Inessential Solidarity," by D. Diane Davis, JAC 19.4
"Another Para(noid)-rhetoric? A Response to Diane Davis," by David Metzger, JAC 20.1
In Response to: "On Writing Well: Or, Springing the Genie from the Inkpot," by
G. Douglas Atkins, JAC 20.1
"To His Nibs, G. Douglas Atkins--Just in Case You're Serious about Your Not-So-Modest Proposal," by Cynthia L. Selfe, JAC 20.2
"Art and Anger--Upon Taking up the Pen Again: On Self(e)-Expression," by G. Douglas Atkins, JAC 20.2
In Response to: "Eavesdropping as Rhetorical Tactic: History, Whiteness, and Rhetoric," by Krista Ratcliffe, JAC 20.1
"Investigating 'Whiteness,' Eavesdropping on 'Race,'" by AnaLouise Keating, JAC 20.2
"Kris, I Hear You," by Joyce Irene Middleton, JAC 20.2
In Response to: "James Kinneavy and the Struggle over Composition," by Gary A. Olson, JAC 19.4
"The Struggle over Composition and the Question of Might: A Response to Gary Olson," by Tim Mayers, JAC 20.2
"Struggling over Composition," by Gary A. Olson, JAC 20.2
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		One of the signature features of JAC is the response essays which we solicit in order to achieve an ongoing scholarly dialogue. In Response to: "Cassette Commentary: An Approach to the Teaching of Expository Writing" by Alexander Medlicott Jr., JAC 1 "A Reply to Medlicott: Evaluating Writing," by Karen Pelz, JAC 1 In Response to: "Social Construction and Composition Theory: A Conversation with Richard Rorty," interview by Gary Olson, JAC 9.1 "Response to the JAC Interview with Richard Rorty," by Kenneth A. Bruffee, JAC 10.1 "On Personally Constructing 'Social Construction': A Response to Richard Rorty," by John Schilb, JAC 10.1 In Response to: "The Legacy of Positivism in Empirical Composition Research," by Carol Berkenkotter , JAC 9.1 "Hurling Epithets at the Devils You Know: A Response to Carol Berkenkotter," by David Foster, JAC 10.1 "The Ideology of 'Epistemological Ecumenicalism': A Response to Carol Berkenkotter," by John Schilb, JAC 10.1 In Response to: "Jacques Derrida on Rhetoric and Composition: A Conversation," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 10.1 "'Where Have You Come from, Reb Derissa, and Where Are you Going?': Gary Olson's Interview with Jacques Derrida," by Jasper Neel, JAC 10.2 "Jacques Derrida on Teaching and Rhetoric: A Response," by Sharon Crowley, JAC 10.2 In Response to: "Prose Any Other Name: A Context for Teaching the Rhetoric of Titles," by Sam Meyer, JAC 8.1 "No Title: A Response to Sam Meyer," by Richard H. Haswell, JAC 10.2 "Let's Continue to Take It from the Top: A Response to Richard Haswell," by Sam Meyer, JAC 10.2 In Response to: "Composition, Collaboration, and Women's Ways of Knowing: A Conversation with Mary Belenky," interview by Evelyn Ashton-Jones and Dene Kay Thomas, JAC 10.2 "Politicizing the Composing Process and Women’s Ways of Interacting: A Response to 'A Conversation with Mary Belenky,'" by Elizabeth A. Flynn, JAC 11.1 "Dueling with Dualism: A Response to Interviews with Mary Field Belenky and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak," by Marilyn M. Cooper, JAC 11.1 (NOTE: This article is also a response to the article below and is listed in both places.) In Response to: "Rhetoric and Cultural Explanations: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," interview by Phillip Sipiora and Janet Atwill, JAC 10.2 "Talking Differently: A Response to Gayatri Spivak," by John Clifford, JAC 11.1 "Toward a Productive Crisis: A Response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," by Thomas Kent, JAC 11.1 "Dueling with Dualism: A Response to Interviews with Mary Field Belenky and Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak," by Marilyn M. Cooper, JAC 11.1 (NOTE: This article is also a response to the article above and is listed in both places.) In Response to: "Language, Politics, and Composition: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky," interview by Gary A. Olson and Lester Faigley, JAC 11.1 "Language and the Facilitation of Authority: The Discourse of Noam Chomsky," by Robert de Beaugrande, JAC 11.2 "Response to 'Language, Politics, and Composition: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky,'" by James Sledd, JAC 11.2 In Response to: "The Affective Domain and the Writing Process: Working Definitions," by Susan H. Mcleod, JAC 11.1 "Defining Affect in Relation to Cognition: A Response to Susan Mcleod," by Kristie S. Fleckenstein , JAC 11.2 "Reply to Kristie Fleckenstein," by Susan McLeod'," JAC 11.2 In Response to: "The Social Scientist as Author: Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 11.2 "The Somewhat Unitary World of Clifford Geertz," by Linda Brodkey, JAC 12.1 "Clifford Geertz on Writing and Rhetoric," by Lisa Ede, JAC 12.1 In Response to: "Why the Wyoming Resolution Had to Be Emasculated: A History and a Quixotism," by James Sledd JAC 11.2 "Work with Us, James Sledd: A Response," by M. Elizabeth Wallace, JAC 12.1 "The Nasty Old Man Replies," by James Sledd, JAC 12.1 In Response to: "History, Praxis, and Change: Paulo Freire and the Politics of Literacy," by Gary Olson, JAC 12.1 "A Response to Gary Olson's Interview with Paulo Freire," by C. H. Knoblauch, JAC 12.2 "Freirean Pedagogy in the U.S.: A Response," by James A. Berlin, JAC 12.2 In Response to: "The Agon Over What 'Composition Research' Means," by Phillip Arrington, JAC 11.2 "'A Note to JAC Readers," by Janice M. Lauer, JAC 12.2 "The Agon Continues: A Reply to Janice Lauer," by Phillip Arrington, JAC 12.2 In Response to: "Externalism and the Production of Discourse," by Thomas Kent, JAC 12.1 "Thomas Kent and Donald Davidson: The Peril of Communication," by Alan G. Gross, JAC 12.2 "The Hope of Communication," by Thomas Kent, JAC 12.2 In Response to: "Fish Tales: A Conversation with 'The Contemporary Sophist,'" interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 12.2 "A Response to 'Fish Tales: A Conversation with The Contemporary Sophist,'" by Patricia Bizzell, JAC 13.1 "'Fish Tales' and the Politics of Anti-Professionalism," by John Trimbur, JAC 13.1 "Don't Know Much about Automobiles: Fish's Anti-Theory Theory," by Fredric G. Gale, JAC 13.1 In Response to: "The History of Composition: Reclaiming Our Lost Generations," by Robin Varnum, JAC 12.1 "A Response to 'The History of Composition: Reclaiming Our Lost Generations,'" by Janice M. Lauer, JAC 13.1 "A Reply to Janice Lauer," by Robin Varnum, JAC 13.1 In Response to: "Language Philosophy, Writing, and Reading: A Conversation with Donald Davidson," by Thomas Kent, JAC 13.1 "The Malaprop in Spite of Herself: A Seperate Reading of Donald Davidson," by Susan White, JAC 13.2 "A Response to 'Language Philosophy, Writing, and Reading: A Conversation with Donald Davidson,'" by Reed Way Dasenbrock, JAC 13.2 "Speech-Acts, Conventions, and Voice: Challenges to a Davidsonian Conception of Writing," by Thomas G. O'Donnell, JAC 14.2 "A Reply to Thomas G. O'Donnell," by Reed Way Dasenbrock, JAC 14.2 In Response to: "Articulation Theory and the Problem of Determination: A Reading of Lives on the Boundary," by John Trimbur , JAC 13.1 "Building a Rose Garden: A Response to John Trimbur," by Mark Wiley, JAC 13.2 In Response to: "Literary Theory, Philosophy of Science, and Persuasive Discourse: Thoughts from a Neo-premodernist," interview by Gary A. Olson (with Stephen Toulmin), JAC 13.2 "'The Good Man Speaking Well,' or Business as Usual," by Arabella Lyon, JAC 14.1 "Novissimum Organum: Phronesis on the Rebound," by C. Jan Swearingen, JAC 14.1 In Response to: "A Postermodern Critique of the Modern Projects of Fedric Jameson and Patricia Bizzell," by Nancy McKoski, JAC 13.2 "Are Shared Discourses Desirable? A Response to Nancy McKoski," by Patricia Bizzell, JAC 14.1 In Response to: "Vygotsky, Dewey, and Externalism: Beyond the Student/Discipline Dichotomy," by David R. Russell, JAC 13.1 "Piaget's Structuralism: A Response to David Russell," by C. David Brell, JAC 14.1 "Piaget's Structuralism: A Reply," by David R. Russell, JAC 14.1 In Response to: "Postcards from the Edge," by Jane Tompkins, JAC 13.2 "A Response to Jane Tompkins," by Helen Rothschild Ewald, JAC 14.1 In Response to: "bell hooks and the Politics of Literacy: a Conversation," interview by Gary A. Olson , JAC 14.1 "bell hooks on Literacy and Teaching: A Response," by Joyce Irene Middleton, JAC 14.2 "Literacy and Activism: A Response to bell hooks," by Tom Fox, JAC 14.2 In Response to: "Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition by Lester Faigley," review by David Bleich, JAC 14.1 "David Bleich and the Politics of Anti-Intellectualism: A Response," by Raul Sanchez, Jr., JAC 14.2 In Response to: "Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and the Future of Critical Studies: A Conversation with J. Hillis Miller," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 14.2 "On Transforming the English Department: A Response to J. Hillis Miller," by Patricia Harkin, JAC 15.1 "Learning About Learning About Deconstruction: An Epi(tryingtobe)gone," by Jasper Neel, JAC 15.1 In Response to: "Jane Tompkins and the Politics of Writing, Scholarship, and Pedagogy," by Gary A. Olson, JAC 15.1 "Encounters with Jane Tompkins," by Susan C. Jarratt, JAC 15.2 "Lit/Comp: A Response to Jane Tompkins," by Elizabeth A. Flynn, JAC 15.2 In Response to: "Spinning Like a Kite: A Closer Look at the Pseudotransactional Function of Writing," by Joseph Petraglia, JAC 15.1 "A Pragmatist Response to Joseph Petraglia," by Omar Swartz, JAC 15.2 "A Realist Reply to 'A Pragmatist Response,'" by Joseph Petraglia, JAC 15.2 In Response to: "Hall of Mirrors: Antifoundationalist Theory and the Teaching of Writing," by David W. Smit, JAC 15.1 "Appealing to Philosophy in Composition Studies," by Daniel J. Royer, JAC 15.2 "Reply to Daniel J. Royer, 'Appealing to Philosophy in Composition Studies,'" by David W. Smit, JAC 15.2 In Response to: "Starting from Marginalized Lives: A Conversation with Sandra Harding," interview by Elizabeth Hirsh and Gary A. Olson, JAC 15.2 "Romancing the Stones: My Movie Date with Sandra Harding," by Lynn Worsham, JAC 15.3 "Who's Sandra Harding? Where's She Standing?" by Arabella Lyon and Mary Conway, JAC 15.3 In Response to: "Resisting a Discourse of Mastery: A Conversation with Jean-François Lyotard," interview by Gary A. Olson, JAC 15.3 "Writing as Resistance," by Elizabeth A. Flynn, JAC 16.1 "Waiting for the Other: Lyotard on Writing, Resistance, and Potential," by Debra Jacobs, JAC 16.1 In Response to: "I'm OK, You're (Not) OK: Teaching in a World of Relativism," by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, JAC 15.3 "What's Epistemology Got To Do With It?: A Response to Phyllis Mentzell Ryder," by Tom O'Donnell, JAC 16.3 "Putting "it" in Context: Diversity in Composition Classes," by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, JAC 16.3 In Response to: "Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy of Imitation," by Mary Minock, JAC 15.3 "Imitation and Composition Pedagogy: A Response to Mary Minock," by Phillip K. Arrington, JAC 16.3 "Imitation Pedagogy: Postmodernist or No, A Response to Phillip Arrington," by Mary Minock, JAC 16.3 In Response to: "Race and the Public Intellectual: A Conversation with Michael Eric Dyson," by Sidney I. Dobrin, JAC 17.2 "On Different Ground: A Response to Michael Eric Dyson," by Malea Powell, JAC 17.3 In Response to: "Community and Cohesion in the Writing/Reading Classroom," by David Foster, JAC 17.3 "Changing the Paradigmatic Terms: A Response to David Foster," by Donald C. Jones, JAC 18.2 In Response to: "Cultural Composition: Stuart Hall on Ethnicity and the Discursive Turn," interview by Julie Drew "The Specificity of the Writing Classroom: A Response to Stuart Hall," by Gordon Grant, JAC 18.3 In Response to: "Staging the Politics of Difference: Homi Bhaba's Critical Literacy, interview by Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham, JAC 18.3 "A Language of Possibility: A Response to Homi Bhabha," by Joe Marshall Hardin, JAC 19.1 "Making the Political More Pedagogical: Reading Homi Bhabha," by Susan Searls Giroux and Henry A. Giroux, JAC 19.1 In Response to: "Hegemony and the Future of Democracy: Ernesto Laclau's Political Philosophy," interview by Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson, JAC 19.1 "The Political of Post-Marxism: Radical Democracy and Class Struggle," by John Trimbur, JAC 19.2 "The Politics of Persuading: Ernesto Laclau and the Question of Discursive Force," by Julie Drew, JAC 19.2 In Response to: "Rethinking Political Community: Chantal Mouffe's Liberal Socialism," by Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson , JAC 19.2 "Agonizing [With] Chantal Mouffe," by D. Diane Davis, JAC 19.3 " Worrying Democracy: Chantal Mouffe and the Return of Politicized Rhetoric," by Donna Strickland, JAC 19.3 In Response to: "(Teaching) Writing: Composition, Cultural Studies, Production," by Julie Drew, JAC 19.3 "'The Wasteland Grows': Or, What is "Cultural Studies for Composition" and Why Must We Always Speak Good of It?: ParaResponse to Julie Drew," by Victor J. Vitanza, JAC 19.4 "On Critique, Cultural Studies, and Community: A Regular Sort of Reply to Victor Vitanza," by Julie Drew, JAC 19.4 In Response to: " " "On the Discipline and Pleasure of Perilous Acts," by Lynn Worsham, JAC 19.4 "On the Pleasure of Misreading: T. R. Johnson Replies to Lynn Worsham," by T. R. Johnson, JAC 19.4 In Response to: "Reading Student Resistance: The Case of the Missing Other," by Richard Boyd, JAC 19.4 "René Girard and the Dynamics of Imitation, Scapegoating, and Renunciative Identification: A Response to Richard Boyd," by Robert Brooke, JAC 20.1 In Response to: "Yes, We Eat Dog Back Home": Contrasting Disciplinary Discourse and Praxis on Diversity," by Sue Hum, JAC 19.4 "All Us People with WEM-CHMAIs Working the In-Between: A Response to Sue Hum," by Patrick McGann, JAC 20.1 "Choice and the Contraditions of Identity Politics: A Reply to Pat McGann," by Sue Hum, JAC 20.2 "Working the In-Between Ever more Consciously: A Reply to Sue Hum," by Patrick McGann, JAC 20.2 In Response to: "'Addicted to Love'; Or, Toward an Inessential Solidarity," by D. Diane Davis, JAC 19.4 "Another Para(noid)-rhetoric? A Response to Diane Davis," by David Metzger, JAC 20.1 In Response to: "On Writing Well: Or, Springing the Genie from the Inkpot," by G. Douglas Atkins, JAC 20.1 "To His Nibs, G. Douglas Atkins--Just in Case You're Serious about Your Not-So-Modest Proposal," by Cynthia L. Selfe, JAC 20.2 "Art and Anger--Upon Taking up the Pen Again: On Self(e)-Expression," by G. Douglas Atkins, JAC 20.2 In Response to: "Eavesdropping as Rhetorical Tactic: History, Whiteness, and Rhetoric," by Krista Ratcliffe, JAC 20.1 "Investigating 'Whiteness,' Eavesdropping on 'Race,'" by AnaLouise Keating, JAC 20.2 "Kris, I Hear You," by Joyce Irene Middleton, JAC 20.2 In Response to: "James Kinneavy and the Struggle over Composition," by Gary A. Olson, JAC 19.4 "The Struggle over Composition and the Question of Might: A Response to Gary Olson," by Tim Mayers, JAC 20.2 "Struggling over Composition," by Gary A. Olson, JAC 20.2 Archiving in progress. More links to come.