Adequate : rewriting the logics of success in rhetoric and composition /

Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition proposes a fresh approach to teaching rhetoric and composition-a field awash with unrealistic labor expectations and untenable and often unattainable requirements for both the educator and the educated-that takes "success&quo...

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Other Authors: Oleksiak, Timothy (Editor), Barsczewski, Joshua (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2026].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Considering the work of adequacy in rhetoric and rhetoric and composition / Timothy Oleksiak and Joshua Barsczewski
  • Solidarity as "living": a theory of relationality for community building as women of color in academia / Eunjeong Lee, Sara P. Lopez Amezquita, and Amy Wan
  • Imagining a critical, coalitional kindness: moving beyond niceness to envision a discipline of care and cooperative disagreement / Mara Lee Grayson
  • Rhetorical theory and the fight for a living wage / Olivia Wood
  • An honest job application / Katie Manthey
  • A dialogue on un/learning institutional knowledge in bits and doing the work as pre-tenure administrators / Kelin Loe, Ashanka Kumari, and Gavin P. Johnson
  • Embodying (in)adequacy: "good enough" as a blow against the meritocratic regime / Christina V. Cedillo, Vyshali Manivannan, Ada Hubrig, and Bernice Olivas
  • Temporarily adequate: learning to be enough at the writing center / Lauren Silber, Malaika Fernandes, Tenzin Jamdol, Audrey Auerbach Nelson, Xiran Tan, and Shaouxuan Tian
  • A labor of love: a generational conversation about success, living well, and all that / Jen Wingard and Rachelle A. C. Joplin
  • Overachieving to leave: reflections on an early career in transition / Sara Doan
  • Confrontations in adequacy in pandemic teacher training / Crystal Colombini, Stephanie Kerschbaum, and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
  • Laboring through the life cycle: toward a disciplinary approach to faculty evaluation / Laurie A. Pinkert and Lauren Marshall Bowen
  • This is fine: reflecting on (missed) opportunity and adequate moments of departmental collaboration, labor, and care / Brigitte Mussack
  • We will never be enough (because academia will always demand more): a letter from a fledgling "crip doula" / Ada Hubrig
  • Afterword: Maturing and organizing towards/with/for adequacy / Seth Kahn and Tony Scott.