Rhetorics of Space, Place, Mobility, Situation: Some sources


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.


Please email suggestions, corrections, or additions.


Last updated 28 December 2007

Anderson, F.D, and Prelli, L.J.  "Pentadic Cartography: Mapping the Universe of Discourse."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 87.1 (2001). 

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera:  The New Mestiza.  San Francisco:  Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

Appadurai, Arjun.  "The Production of Locality."  Counterworks:  Managing the Diversity of Knowledge.  Ed. Richard Fardon.  London:  Routledge, 1995.  204-225. 

Aronson, Anne.  "Composing in a Material World:  Women Writing in Space and Time."  Rhetoric Society Quarterly 17.2 (Spring 1999):  282-289. 

Berger, Peter.  The Homeless Mind.  New York:  Random House, 1973. 

Bernal, Martin.  Black Athena.  New Brunswick:  Rutgers UP, 1987. 

Bettig, Ronald V.  "The Enclosure of Cyberspace."  Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14.2 (1997). 

Black, Fiona A., Bertrum H. MacDonald, and J. Malcolm W. Black. "Geographic Information Systems: A New Research Method for Book History." Book History 1 (1998).

Bloom, Lynn Z.  "Mapping Composition's New Geography."  Composition in the Twenty-First Century:  Crisis and Change.  Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 1996.  273-80. 

Bolter, Jay David.  Writing Space:  Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print.  2nd ed.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. 

Brooke, Collin Gifford.  "Making Room, Writing Hypertext."  JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 19.2 (Spring 1999):  253-268. 

Brooke, Robert E., ed.  Rural Voices:  Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing.  New York:  Teachers College P, 2003. 

Bourdieu, Pierre.  Homo Academicus.  Trans. Peter Collier.  Stanford UP, 1988. 

Bourdieu, Pierre.  Language and Symbolic Power.  Ed. John B. Thompson.  Trans. Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard UP, 1993. 

Campbell, John.  Past, Space, and Self.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT P, 1994. 

Casati, Roberto, and Achille C. Varzi. Parts and Places:  The Structures of Spatial Representation. Cambridge, MA:  MIT P, 1999. 

Castiglia, Christopher.  "Where I'm Coming From:  Memory, Location, and the (Un)making of National Subjectivity."  Personal Effects:  The Social Character of Scholarly Writing.  Ed. Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich.  Logan:  Utah State UP, 2001.  317-334. 

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

Clark, Grahame.  Space, Time, and Man:  A Prehistorian's View.  Cambridge UP, 1992. 

Cortez, Sarah.  "Visions of the City:  A Classroom Experience." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  96-113.

Cottom, Daniel.  "Orifices Extended in Space."  Differences 11.2 (Summer 1999). 

Daiker, Donald A.  "The New Geography of Composition."  Composition in the Twenty-First Century:  Crisis and Change.  Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 1996.  1-10. 

Domosh, Mona, and Joni Seager.  Putting Women in Place:  Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World.  New York: Guilford, 2001.

Duncan, Nancy, ed.  Bodyspace:  Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.  1-12. 

Duncan, Nancy.  "Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in Public and Private Spaces." Bodyspace:  Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality.  Ed. Nancy Duncan.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.  127-45. 

Duncan, Nancy.  "(Re)placings."  Bodyspace:  Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality.  Ed. Nancy Duncan.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.  1-12. 

Edbauer, Jenny. "Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.4 (Fall 2005): 5-25.

Ede, Lisa. Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois P, 2004. 

Ekelund, Bo G.  "Space, Time, and John Gardner." Pierre Bourdieu:  Fieldwork in Culture. Ed. Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 

Ermarth, Elizabeth.  Realism and Consensus in the English Novel:  Time, Space and Narrative.  2nd rev. ed.  Edinburgh, 1998. 

Feltes, N.N.  "International Copyright:  Structuring 'the Condition of Modernity' in British Publishing."  The Construction of Authorship:  Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature.  Ed. Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi.  Durham:  Duke UP, 1994.  271-80.

Fleckenstein, Kristie S. "Faceless Students, Virtual Places: Emergence and Communal Accountability in Online Classrooms." Computers and Composition 22.2 (2005): 149-176.

Friend, Christy.  "From the Contact Zone to the City:  Iris Marion Young and Composition Theory."  JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 19.4 (1999):  657-568. 

Gay, Pamela.  "The Politics of Location:  Using Flare-Ups to Spark 'Reflexive Dialogue' in the Ever-Changing Classroom Text." Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Post-Colonial Studies.  Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane. U Pittsburgh P, 2004.  218-237. 

Gibson-Graham, J.K. The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. U Minnesota P, 2006.

Giddens, Anthony.  The Consequences of Modernity.  Stanford, CA:  Stanford UP, 1990. 

Giddens, Anthony.  The Giddens Reader.  Ed. Philip Cassell.  Stanford, CA:  Stanford UP, 1993.

Glasberg, Elena. "The Intimate Sphere: National Strategies of Mapping and Embodiment." Genre 36.3-4 (2003).

Gunkel, David J., and Ann Hetzel Gunkel.  "Virtual Geographies: The New Worlds of Cyberspace."  Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14.2 (1997). 

Hadfield, Leslie, Joyce Kinkead, Tom Peterson, Stephanie H. Ray, and Sarah S. Preston.  "An Ideal Writing Center:  Re-Imagining Space and Design."  The Center Will Hold:  Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship.  Ed. Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead.  Logan:  Utah State UP, 2003.  166-176. 

Hall, Edward T.  The Hidden Dimension.  New York:  Anchor, 1969. 

Hauser, Gerald A., ed. Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres. U South Carolina P, 1999.

Haviland, Carol Peterson, Carmen M. Fye, and Richard Colby.  "The Politics of Administrative and Physical Location."  The Politics of Writing Centers.  Eds. Jane Nelson and Kathy Evertz.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2001.  85-98.

Hayden, Dolores.  The Power of Place:  Urban Landscapes as Public History.  Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1995.

Hayles, N.  Katherine.  Writing Machines.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT P, 2002. 

Herrera-Sobek, Maria. "Gloria Anzaldua: Place, Race, Language, and Sexuality in the Magic Valley." PMLA 121.1 (Jan. 2006): 266-271.

Hesford, Wendy. "Global Turns and Cautions in Rhetoric and Composition Studies." PMLA 121.3 (May 2006): 787-801.

Huyssen, Andreas. "Modernist Miniatures: Literary Snapshots of Urban Spaces." PMLA 122.1 (Jan. 2007): 27-43.

Jones, Edward S.  Improvement of Study Habits:  Including Approved Techniques of Studying in College.  Buffalo NY:  Foster & Stewart, 1934, 1945. 

Kern, Stephen.  The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918.  London:  Weidenfeld, 1983. 

Kirby, Kathleen M.  Indifferent Boundaries:  Spatial Concepts of Human Subjectivity.  New York:  Guilford P, 1996. 

Kirby, Kathleen M.  "Re: Mapping Subjectivity."  Cartographic Vision and the Limits of Politics." Bodyspace:  Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality.  Ed. Nancy Duncan.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.  45-55. 

Kirsch, Gesa E., and Joy S. Ritchie. "Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location in Composition Research." College Composition and Communication 46.1 (Feb. 1995): 7-29. Rpt. Cross-Talk in Comp Theory. Ed. Victor Villanueva. 2nd ed. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2003. 523-546.

Lang, Michael. "Mapping Globalization or Globalizing the Map? Heidegger and Planetary Discourse." Genre 36.3-4 (2003).

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space.  Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith.  Cambridge, MA:  Blackwell, 1992. 

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Mahala, Daniel, and Jody Swilky.  "Remapping the Geography of Service in English."  College English 59.6 (October 1997):  624-46. 

Makdisi, Saree.  "Laying Claim to Beirut:  Urban Narrative and Spatial Identity in the Age of Solidere."  Critical Inquiry 23.3 (Spring 1997):  661-705. 

Male, Emile.  Chartres.  Trans. Sarah Wilson.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1983. 

Marback, Richard.  "Learning to Inhabit Writing."  Composition Studies 29.1 (Spring 2001):  51-62. 

Marback, Richard. "The Rhetorical Space of Robben Island." Rhetorical Society Quarterly 24.2 (Spring 2004): 7-28.

Massey, Doreen.  Space, Place and Gender.  Minneapolis:  U Minnesota P, 1994. 

Mauk, Johnathon.  "Location, Location, Location:  The 'Real' (E)states of Being, Writing, and Thinking in Composition."  College English 65.4 (March 2003):  368-388. 

McComiskey, Bruce, and Cynthia Ryan, eds.  City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices.  SUNY P, 2003. 

McDowell, Linda.  "Spatializing Feminism:  Geographic Perspectives." Bodyspace:  Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality.  Ed. Nancy Duncan.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.  28-44. 

Meyrowitz, Joshua.  No Sense of Place.  Oxford UP, 1985. 

Mitchell, William J.  City of Bits:  Space, Place, and the Infobahn.  Cambridge:  MIT P, 1995. 

Mullin, Joan, Peter Carino, Jane Nelson, and Kathy Evertz. "Administrative (Chaos) Theory: The Politics and Practices of Writing Center Location." The Writing Center Director's Resource Book. Ed. Christina Murphy and Byron L. Stay. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. 225-236.

Mutnick, Deborah. "Time and Space in Composition Studies: 'Through the Gates of the Chronotope.'" Rhetoric Review 25.1 (2006): 41-57.

Nicola-McLaughlin, Andree, and Zala Chandler.  "Urban Politics in the Higher Education of Black Women:  A Case Study."  Women and the Politics of Empowerment.  Ed. Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen.  Philadelphia:  Temple UP, 1988.  180-201. 

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Osterud, Nancy Grey.  Bonds of Community:  The Lives of Farm Women in Nineteenth-Century New York.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell UP, 1991. 

Payne, Darin.  "English Studies in Levittown:  Rhetorics of Space and Technology in Course-Management Software."  College English 67.5 (May 2005):  483-507. 

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Porter, James E., Patricia Sullivan, Stuart Blythe, Jeffrey T. Grabill, and Libby Miles.  "Institutional Critique:  A Rhetorical Methodology for Change."  College Composition and Communication 51.4 (June 2000):  610-642. 

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