Bibliographies

Evolution of Ecocomposition

Wed, 25 Apr 2001
From: Ute Haker <uhaker@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>
To: ASLE CCCC LISTSERV

Hello everyone,
I'm a new ASLE member and grad student. I'm working on a paper for a class, in which I'd like to trace the evolution of ecocomp in composition journals (not just CCC).

I have looked at ASLE's online Bibliography and have seen the responses to Sehjae Chun's inquiry, but did not find much when following some of the suggestions there. A search in ERIC, for example, produced nothing.

Does anyone already have a good biblio of journal articles featuring ecocomp, or could some of the authors of those articles among you let me know the references for your own work?

Thank you!  Ute

Ute Haker
University of Arizona, Tucson
PhD program in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English
uhaker@email.arizona.edu

Beigel, Jennifer. "Environmental Education in the English Classroom." ISLE '96

Burke, Kenneth. Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose.

Cooper, Marilyn. "The Ecology of Writing." CE '86 (ecology as metaphor for the classroom and writing)

Dixon, Terrell. "Inculcating Wildness: Ecocomposition, Nature Writing, and the
Regreening of the American Suburb." The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and
Urban Environments. Ed. Michael Bennett and David W. Teague. Tucson: U of
Arizona P, 1999. 77-90.

Dobrin, Sidney I. "English 3310 Advanced Expository Writing: Rhetoric and
Environment."  Composition Studies 27.2 (1999): 69-95.

Dobrin, Sidney I., and Christian R. Weisser, eds. Ecocomposition: Theoretical
and Practical Approaches (SUNY, 2001)

---. Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition (forthcoming from SUNY P)

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Ecospeak: Rhetoric and
Environmental Politics in America. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.

Lindeman, Erika. "Three Views of English 101" (CE 57, 1995)

McDowell, Michael. "Talking about Trees in Stumptown: Pedagogical Problems in Teaching EcoComp."  Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of
Literature and the Environment.  Ed. Michael P. Branch, Rochelle Johnson,
Daniel Patterson, and Scott Slovic. Moscow, ID: U of Idaho P, 1998.  19-28.

Owens, Derek. Survival and Sustainability in the New Curriculum: A Reconstructive Consciousness.

Roorda, Randall. Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature
Writing. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 1998.

---. "KB in Green: Ecology, Critical Theory, and Kenneth Burke" (ISLE 4.2, Fall
97)

---. "Literature/Ecology:" JAC '96

---. "Nature/Writing: Literature, Ecology, and Composition." JAC: A Journal of
Composition Theory 17 (1997): 401-414.

---. "Sites and Sense in the Writing of Nature." CE '96

Rueckert, William R. Encounters with Kenneth Burke (1994), especially Part
Three, "Logology, Ecology, and Technology," 171-84.

Waage, Frederick O., ed. Teaching Environmental Literature: Materials, Methods, Resources. (three articles about teaching writing--in some limited ways)

Wed, 25 Apr 2001
From: SID DOBRIN <sdobrin@ENGLISH.UFL.EDU>

Keep in mind that the term "ecocomposition" has only recently been used in publication/public conversation, so searches may not turn up much.  Earlier scholarship will be more likely found, as Arlene notes, under nature writing headings.  But, (dramatic drum roll) keep in mind that it wasn't until a lot of
the work folks like Killingsworth, Cooper, Roorda, Owens, McDowell, Lee Smith, Weisser, the writers the Ecocomp collection, and a few others (apologies to
anyone I missed in naming) that exploring nature/environment/place and writing in conjunction really moved from an interpretive study to a study concerned primarily with the production of discourse; that is, concerned with composition
not literary criticism (though that's still crucial).