Archives and archival research: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University


Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 10 October 2007

Biesecker, Barbara A. "Of Historicity, Rhetoric: The Archive as Scene of Invention." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9.1 (2006)

Brereton, John C.  "Rethinking Our Archive:  a Beginning."  College English 61.5 (May 1999):  574-576. 

Carr, Jean Ferguson, Stephen L. Carr, and Lucille Schultz. Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Centuyry Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005.

Certeau, Michel.  The Writing of History.  Trans. Tom Conley.  New York:  Columbia UP, 1988. 

Derrida, Jacques.  Archive Fever:  A Freudian Impression.  U Chicago P, 1998. 

Ferreira-Buckley, Linda.  "Rescuing the Archives from Foucault."  College English 61.5 (May 1999):  577-583. 

Finnegan, Cara A. "What Is This a Picture Of?: Some Thoughts on Images and Archives." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9.1 (2006).

Folsom, Ed. "Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives." PMLA 122.5 (Oct. 2007): 1571-1579.

Hilberg, R. The Politics of Memory. Chicago, 1996.

Mailloux, Steven.  "Reading Typos, Reading Archives."  College English 61.5 (May 1999):  584-590. 

Miller, Thomas P., and Melody Bowdon.  "A Rhetorical Stance on the Archives of Civic Action."  College English 61.5 (May 1999):  591-598. 

Mirtz, Ruth M.  "WPAs as Historians:  Discovering a First-Year Writing Program by Researching Its Past."  The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999.  119-130. 

Montgomery, Michael B.  "The Formation of American English."  American Speech 75.4 (2000):  380-382.  <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v075/75.4montgomery.html>

Morris, Charles E. "Archival Queer." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9.1 (2006)

Morris, Charles E. "The Archival Turn in Rhetorical Studies; Or, the Archive's Rhetorical (Re)turn." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9.1 (2006)

Parks, Stephen. Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.

Pemberton, Michael A.  "The Writing Lab Newsletter as History:  Tracing the Growth of a Scholarly Community."  The Center Will Hold:  Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship.  Ed. Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead.  Logan:  Utah State UP, 2003.  21-40. 

Peters, Brad. "Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers." The Writing Center Director's Resource Book. Ed. Christina Murphy and Byron L. Stay. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. 103-114.

Rose, Shirley K.  "Preserving Our Histories of Institutional Change:  Enabling Research in the Writing Program Archives."  The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Westport, CT: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999.  107-118. 

Rose, Shirley K., and Irwin Weiser.  "The WPA as Researcher and Archivist."  The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice.  Ed. Stuart C. Brown, Theresa Enos, and Catherine Chaput.  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.  275-290. 

Shetty, Sandhya, and Elizabeth Jane Bellamy.  "Postcolonialism's Archive Fever."  diacritics 30.1 (2000):  25-48.  <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/diacritics/v030/30.1shetty.html>

Wentworth, Donna.  "'Creative Archive' Poised for a Trip Back to the Future."  Weblog entry.  10 Apr. 2005.  Copyfight.  11 Apr. 2005 <http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/04/10/creative_archive_poised_for_a_trip_back_to_the_future.php>.