Publications and Research
Document Type
Book Chapter or Section
Publication Date
2026
Abstract
In a global perspective for WAC and other writing programs, the singular identifier of the nation still holds a dominance in articles, books, and conference presentations. But, how we understand relationships between different programs on the global writing studies map often demands a more nuanced unpacking than stable nation-markers can offer. Jonathan Hall (2023) calls us to take up “thinking with trans-” in WAC (p. 13). This chapter answers this call first by locating different pieces of global writing program scholarship along a spectrum from those that aim to establish a single, stable identity for a particular (often national) writing location on one end, and on the other, what the author calls critical-transnational narratives that complicate and destabilize identifiers about place. This chapter establishes a way of transnationally reading the world through scholarship—not as a rejection of categories or borders—but as a recognition of, and engagement with, their fluid and emergent character.
Comments
This chapter was originally published in Writing Worldviews: Extended Scholarly Conversations from IWAC 2023, edited by Christopher Basgier, Terry Myers Zawacki, Magnus Gustafsson, Sue Hum, and Maureen Mathison, available at https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2845.2.06
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