Composition: History & Theory: 1990 - 1999
Clifford, John C.
Description
JOHN CLIFFORD (PhD, New York University, ‘77) is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He has authored or edited several composition textbooks: The Experience of Reading: Louise Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory (1991) and, with John Schilb, Writing Theory and Critical Theory, also with Schilb, Making Literature Matter (3rd ed, 2006) and Making Arguments about Literature (2005).
Some summers, he teaches literary response at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and reading theory at Northeastern’s Martha’s Vineyard Workshops. He has taught writing at Queens College, CUNY, and was a high school English teacher and chairperson for ten years in Brooklyn, New York. Some courses he’s taught at UNCW include “Writing about Film” and “Topics in America Literature: Postmodern American Fiction and Culture.”
Clifford is committed to praxis in composition and a composing process committed to critical reflection with an informed and ethical conscience to intervene into public discourse. He considers himself post-process—founded in invention and drafting as well as revision and editing, but these are secondary to a wide range of literate activities that engage and question sociohistorical subjects caught in a flawed social order enacting a democratic rhetoric.
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3 Nov. 2009