Charles Bazerman
Faculty Website: https://education.ucsb.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/charles-bazerman
WAC Distinguished Fellow Profile: https://wacclearinghouse.org/community/awards/fellows/
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David R. Russell
Faculty Website: https://engl.iastate.edu/profiles/david-russell/
WAC Distinguished Fellow Profile: https://wacclearinghouse.org/community/awards/fellows/
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Selected Books: Charles Bazerman
Bazerman, Charles. (2024). Unfinished Business: Thoughts on the Past, Present, Future and Nurturing of Homo Scribens. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2024.2340
Bazerman, Charles. (2023). How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became: An Experiment in Autoethnography. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2023.1886
Bazerman, Charles, Applebee, A. Berninger, V., Brandt, D., Graham, S., Jeffery, J. V., Kei Matsuda, P., Murphy, S., Rowe, D. W., Schleppegrell, M., & Wilcox, K. C. (2018). Lifespan development of writing abilities. National Council of Teachers of English. https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/ncte/lifespan-writing/
Bazerman, Charles. (2013). A Rhetoric of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 1. The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2013.0513
Bazerman, Charles. (2013). A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 2. The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2013.4791
Bazerman, Charles, Joseph, Little, Lisa, Bethel, Teri, Chavkin, Danielle, Fouquette, & Janet, Garufis. (2005). Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum. Parlor Press; The WAC Clearinghouse. https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/referenceguides/bazerman-wac/
Bazerman, Charles. & P. Prior (Eds.) (2004). What Writing Does and How It Does It. Erlbaum.
Bazerman, Charles. (1999). The Languages of Edison’s Light. MIT Press.
Bazerman, Charles. (1997). Involved: Writing for College, Writing for Your Self. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/practice/involved/ (Republished by the WAC Clearinghouse in 2015)
Bazerman, Charles, & Russell, David. R. (1994). Landmark Essays in Writing Across the Curriculum. Hermagoras Press.
Bazerman, Charles. & J. Paradis (Eds.) (1991). Textual dynamics of the professions. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. WAC Clearinghouse.
Bazerman, Charles, & James, Paradis (Eds.). (1991). Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities. University of Wisconsin Press. https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/landmarks/textual-dynamics/ (Republished by the WAC Clearinghouse in 2004)
Bazerman, Charles. (1988). Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science. University of Wisconsin Press. https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/landmarks/bazerman-shaping/ (Republished in 2000 by the WAC Clearinghouse)
Bazerman, Charles. (1981). The informed writer: Using sources in the disciplines. Houghton Mifflin, 1981; 1985; 1989; 1992; 1995. https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/practice/informedwriter/ (Republished by the WAC Clearinghouse in 2010)
Selected Publications: David R. Russell
Russell, David R. (2002). Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History (2nd ed.). Southern Illinois University Press.
Russell, David R. (2023). Motivation and Genre as Social Action: A Phenomenological Perspective on Academic Writing. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1226571
Russell, David R. (2023). WAC Compared to Other “Across the Curriculums.” In Megan J. Kelly, Heather M. Falconer, Caleb L. González, & Jill Dahlman (Eds.), (2023). Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50 (pp. 239-252). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2023.1947.2.16
Gallagher, P. B., Meister, P., & Russell, D. R. (2021). Phenomenology of writing with unfamiliar tools in a semi-public environment: A case study. Computers and Composition, 62, 102668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2021.102668
Russell, David R. (2020). Retreading, Non-ing, and a TPC Rationale for Sub-disciplining in Writing Studies. College English 82 (5), 472-483. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26998219
Russell, David R. (2019). Perception and recognition of textual genres: A phenomenological approach. In Charles Bazerman, Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón, David Russell, Paul Rogers, Luis Bernardo Peña, Elizabeth Narváez, Paula Carlino, & Montserrat Castelló y Mónica Tapia-Ladino (Eds.), Conocer la Escritura: Investigación Más Allá de las Frontera [Knowing Writing: Writing Research across Borders] (pp. 163-198). Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; The WAC Clearinghouse. https://doi.org/10.37514/INT-B.2019.0421.2.20
Dryer, Dylan B., & Russell, David R. (2018). Why North American Writing Studies Ought to Reflect on Physiological and Phenomenological Approaches to Cognition. In Patricia Portanova, J. Michael Rifenburg, & Duane Roen (Eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing (pp. 57-76). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2017.0032.2.03
Bazerman, Charles, & Russell, David (Eds.). (2003). Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives. Perspectives on Writing. The WAC Clearinghouse; Mind, Culture, and Activity. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2003.2317
Foster, David, & Russell, David R. (Eds.). (2002). Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective: Transitions from Secondary to Higher Education. Routledge.
Russell, David R. (1997). Rethinking Genre in School and Society: An Activity Theory Analysis. Written Communication, 14(4), 504-554. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088397014004004
Charles Bazerman (Ph.D, Brandeis, 1971; Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidades Nacionales de Cordoba, Entre Ríos, Río Cuarto, y Villa María), is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara. He holds lifetime achievement awards from the National Council of Teachers of English and the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Fulbright Scholarships, and Researcher of Excellence from the University of the Lorraine. He is founder and former Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and former Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has been a visiting professor in Portugal, Denmark, the Czech Republic, France, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Nepal, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, and the US. His current projects use writing and rhetorical knowledge to address climate change in practical ways.
David R. Russell is Professor Emeritus of English at Iowa State University, where he taught in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication graduate program, served as co-director of the ISUComm Advanced Communication undergraduate program, and for 12 years edited the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. His book, Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History, examines the history of United States writing instruction since 1870. He has published more than 80 refereed journal articles and chapters in edited collections on writing in the disciplines (WID) and professions, drawing mainly on cultural historical activity theory and rhetorical genre theory. He has recently published articles on the phenomenology of writing, the felt sense of writing under surveillance, embodied cognition in reflection, and genre as social action in relation to recent theories of motivation.
