College English - Volume 74, Issue 2, 2011

Contributors to this symposium recall and reflect on changes of mind they have experienced, noting the relationship of these to larger concerns of English studies as a profession.

Traditional narratives about composition and rhetoric in modern American universities need to be complicated through analyses of what has happened to these subjects at particular institutions. For a case study, the author examines Joseph Villiers Denney’s work in establishing and sustaining a department of rhetoric at The Ohio State University.

In honor of NCTE’s centennial, we present excerpts from the College Edition of the English Journal, which ran from 1928 to 1938 and served as a precursor to College English.

Reviewed is X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent by Scott Richard Lyons.