Notable Scholars list

Last night I worked with my husband to develop a hidden page* that contains basic information about some of the many notable scholars and authors we have been reading about this semseter. I am having trouble keeping all the names straight and remembering what theoretical camp they are in, so I created this page and Andrew wrote the javascript so that in the future whenever I refer to a scholar by name, (for example: I disagree with Jürgen Habermas' claim that there is only one public sphere) I can add a link that when clicked will open a popup window that contains some of the basic information about that author. The list is based on what I have written in my notes, contains many scholars names that I probably only saw once, and is not very complete at the moment. So, I will post the list below, and welcome any suggestions and additional information about these scholars or the page. If you use a scholar's name in a comment or in a post on this blog in the future, I can either show you how to add the html tag to your post (it's not that hard), or I will do it automatically when I notice it. This way, I will always know who I'm talking about!

List of scholars after the jump!
*I decided to un-hide the list so that people can access it any time, not just by clicking a link. Also, if anyone wants to become an author on this blog, they may then edit the Scholars and Jargon pages easily.


Scholars List


James Britton
Growth Theorist: personal and expressive talk and writing, focus on individual writer


John Dixon
Growth Theorist: personal and expressive talk and writing, focus on individual writer


James Moffett
Growth Theorist: personal and expressive talk and writing, focus on individual writer


Janet Emig
Cognitivist: teachers should intervene in the recursive stages of the writing process, empower students, make classroom egalitarian, focus on individual writer


Linda Flower
Cognitivist: teachers should intervene in the recursive stages of the writing process, empower students, make classroom egalitarian, focus on individual writer


John Hayes
Cognitivist: teachers should intervene in the recursive stages of the writing process, empower students, make classroom egalitarian, focus on individual writer

Peter Elbow
Expressivist: truth and knowledge are located in the individual, focus on individual writer


Donald Murray
Expressivist: truth and knowledge are located in the individual, focus on individual writer


Ken Macrorie
Expressivist: truth and knowledge are located in the individual, focus on individual writer

Stanley Fish
only those with the attention of a large portion of the population can be public intellectuals
the public no longer looks to public intellectuals for general knowledge

Jürgen Habermas
cultural theorist

Oskar Negt
cultural theorist

Alexander Kluge
cultural theorist

Susan Wells
"Rogue Cops and Health Care"
incorporated work of cultural theorists Habermas, Kluge and Negt into examinations of public writing

Michael Bérubé
recognise political functions of academic work

Cary Nelson
recognise political functions of academic work

Bruce Robbins
recognise political functions of academic work

Ellen Cushman
Put forth investigations of the role of compositionists in changing academia and society

Sidney Dobrin
Put forth investigations of the role of compositionists in changing academia and society

Nancy Fraser
says there are multiple public spheres
advocates for "subordinated" groups to make up alternate sites of public discourse called "subaltern counterpublics"