The piece titled “Rhetorical and Pedagogical Interventions for Countering Microaggressions” is published in Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture (Duke University Press): vol. 19, no. 3, 2019, pages 455-481. It received the 2021 Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Outstanding Scholarship Award and was selected for the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2021. In the article, we consider interventions in academic spaces, across the three areas of higher education—research, teaching, and service:

"Pedagogical spaces inside and outside the classroom abound with microaggressions, and we are haunted by their impact. This article names microaggressions as a rhetorical and pedagogical phenomenon that is conspicuous in many pedagogical spaces. To make the case for rhetorical and pedagogical intervention, we begin by defining and tracing microaggressions (though not named as such) in the literature from rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies. From there, we share cross-disciplinary understandings of microaggressions, discussing three forms: microinsult, microassault, and microinvalidation. We apply this deeper understanding of microaggressions to three instantiations or illustrations of microaggressions in academic contexts." (page 456)

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