Book chapter (old post)

[This is an old post that was a draft and it didn't get published for some reason. Figured I'd publish it now. The updates are that the book chapter was accepted and should be out in October. The CCC article was actually accepted with a few revisions and should be out in December (I think). My embodied writing article draft is actually still not done, but that's mostly because I had to put that aside to revise the CCC article draft. I'm hoping to send it out by the end of the week.]

I'm, again, surprised by how long it takes to get something published. I love teaching. I actually love researching and writing and talking about theory and pedagogy, too. But the actual process of publishing is terrifying to me. Especially given the time it takes to be published, and that's if things go well.

Before I left graduate school, I co-edited a book on teaching first-year writing (and had an essay published in that book -- of course, as I co-edited it). I also co-wrote an article with Paul K. Matsuda on histories of teaching composition in the U.S. Both were difficult and time-consuming and rewarding. But balancing the kinds of teaching I do now with publishing expectations is much more difficult. So far I've published an article on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and rhetorical theories of identification in an online (peer reviewed) journal. That article doesn't do me much good for tenure, though.

But I just sent what I hope are the final edits for a book chapter I wrote for an edited collection on disruptive pedagogies. The book should be out later this year. I also sent an article to CCC last semester. Given that it's the leading journal in the field, I'm not holding my breath, but might as well shoot for the stars, right? And I'm working on an article on embodied rhetoric that I'm hoping to finish in the next few months. I wanted to have it done by now, but that just didn't happen. But it will be done sometime this semester. Once that's out, I'd like to turn toward another article idea about embodied writing. It's all stuff I'm interested in; I just feel like I need two parallel lives to get it all done.