Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Finding family, finding a voice: a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power: teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? -- Reading, writing, teaching essays as jazz -- Why don't we write what we teach? and publish it? -- Subverting the academic masterplot -- Coming of age in the field that had no name -- Anxious writers in context -- I write for myself and strangers: private diaries as public documents -- Making essay connections: editing readers for first-year writers -- The importance of external reviews in composition studies -- Want a writing director -- Why I (used to) hate to give grades -- Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio -- Making difference: writing program administration as a creative process -- Bloom's laws.