Trauma and theTeaching of Writing -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The World Wide Agora: Negotiating Citizenship and Ownership of Response Online -- 2. Presence in Absence: Discourses and Teaching (In, On, and About) Trauma -- 3. Here and Now: Remediating National Tragedy and the Purposes for Teaching Writing -- 4. Teaching in the Wake of National Tragedy -- 5. Teaching Writing in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor and 9/11: How to "Make Meaning" and "Heal "Despite National Propaganda -- 6. Consumerism and the Coopting of National Trauma -- 7. Discovering the Erased Feminism of the Civil Rights Movement: Beyond the Media, Male Leaders, and the 1960s Assassinations -- 8. Writing Textbooks in/for Times of Trauma -- 9. Loss and Letter Writing -- 10. How Little We Knew: Spring 1970 at the University of Washington -- 11. "This rhetoric paper almost killed me!: "Reflections on My Experiences in GreeceDuring the Revolution of 1974 -- 12. Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, an Academic? -- 13. "We have common cause against the night": Voices from the WPA-l, September 11-12, 2001 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.