Dr. Laura Gray-Rosendale

Associate Professor of English Northern Arizona University

Teaching

History of rhetoric, visual and cultural studies, composition theory , nonfiction

Books Published

1999: Rethinking Basic Writing ( Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers Press)

2001: Alternative Rhetorics with Sibylle Gruber (SUNY Press)

2003: Fractured Feminisms: Rhetoric, Context, and Contestation
with Gil Harootunian (SUNY Press)

2005: Radical Relevance : Toward a Scholarship of the "Whole Left"
with Steven Rosendale (SUNY Press)

Books Published~ Contributing Editor

2002: Bedford St. Martin’s Press~ The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing with Linda Adler-Kassner, Gregory Glau, and the Conference on Basic Writing

2004: Bedford St. Martin’s Press~ The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing: II with Linda Adler-Kassner, Gregory Glau, and the Conference on Basic Writing

Books Forthcoming

2006: McGraw-Hill Press The [Next] Reader: Reading and Writing About Popular Culture

Books in Progress

A creative nonfiction book

Basic Writing’s Others: A book that examines the oft silenced voices of Basic Writers living in the Southwestern United States

Selected Articles and Chapters

Articles:

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. Entries in Bibliography on Basic Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. and Thomas Henry. Entries in Bibliography on Basic Writing. Eds. Linda Adler-Kassner and Greg Glau. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A., Linda Adler-Kassner, Kathleen Baca, Susanmarie Harrington, Alan Meyers, Tom Reynolds, and Karen Uehling. “Basic Writing’s Past, Present, and Future: A Discussion of Problems and Possibilities.” Composition Studies. Fall, 2001.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. with Raymona Leonard. “Demythologizing the Basic Writer: Identity, Power, and Other Challenges to the Discipline.” Basic Writinge. 3.1(Spring 2001): 1-30.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Comment on Exchange Discussion on Basic Writing and Bruce Horner’s Review of Rethinking Basic Writing.” Composition Studies. 29.1(Spring 2001): 143-145.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. and Lisa Cahill. “Power, Knowledge, and the Nature of Graduate Student Expertise in WAC/WID Administration.” Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. 6.2(Spring 2000): 111-144.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Cultural Criticism and Survivor Discourse in the Webbed Frontier.” Concerns. 26.3-4(Fall 1999): 21-38.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Investigating Our Discursive History: JBW and the Construction of the ‘Basic Writer’s’ Identity.’” Journal of Basic Writing. 18.2 (Fall 1999): 108-135.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. "Reclaiming the Critical Stance of the Feminist Rhetorician." Composition Forum. 9.2(Fall 1998): 100-115.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. "Inessential Writings: Shaughnessy's Legacy for a Socially Constructed Landscape." Journal of Basic Writing. 17.2(Fall 1998): 1-37.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Revising the Political in Contemporary Basic Writing Scholarship.” Journal of Basic Writing. 15.2 (Fall 1996): 24-49.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. and Linda Martin Alcoff. “Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?” Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture. 18:2(Winter 1993): 260-290.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. and Linda Martin Alcoff. “Der Diskurs von Uberlebenden sexueller Gewalt: Uberschreitung oder Vereinnahmung?” Forum Kritische Psychologie 33 (1996): 100-135.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Survivors.” Phoebe. (Spring 1992): 20-27.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Intellectuals and Their Practices: Towards a Graduate Participant Seminar.” Prosthesis. (Winter 1991): 1-21.

Book Chapters:

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. "Cracks in The Contact Zone Chronicles." Questioning Authority. Eds. Susan Harrington and Linda Adler-Kassner. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 153-167.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Introduction.” Alternative Rhetorics. Eds. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. 1-13.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. "Geographies of Resistance: Race and Mobility Rhetorics in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937). " Alternative Rhetorics. Eds. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. 149-165.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Constraining Our Talk Show Culture: Narrative, Identity, and Truth in Compositions by Survivors of Sexual Assault.” The Personal Narrative: Writing Ourselves as Teachers and Scholars. Eds. Gil Haroian-Guerin and Peter Stillman. Portland, ME: Calendar Islands Press, 1999. 142-159.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Everyday Exigencies: Constructing Student Identity Beyond the College Application.” Miss Grundy Doesn’t Teach Here Anymore: How Popular Culture Has Changed the College Writing Classroom. Eds. Diane Penrod and Charles Schuster. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton-Cook Press, 1997.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. and Linda Martin Alcoff. “Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?” Getting A Life: Autobiography and Postmodernism. eds. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 198-225.

Bibliography on the Conference of College Composition and Communication. Contributor 1993-1994.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Alternative Modes of Inquiry For the Discipline.” Voices From The Field. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. http://www.bedfordbooks.com/voices/rosendale_01.html.

Articles and Chapters in Press:

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “The Myth of the Dumb Reading Group: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in Rural New Hampshire.” The Literacy Standard. Eds. Ron Sudol and Alice Horning. New York: Hampton Press, 2003.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura A. “Rhetorics of Race in Contestation: Revisiting Alain Locke’s The New Negro (1925).” Multiple Literacies for the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Charles Bazerman and Brian Huot. New York: Hampton Press, 2003.

NAU English Department Affiliations

Literacy, Technology, and Professional Writing Graduate ProgramLTPW Program Flyer

Certificate in Professional Writing