New: Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma

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Thrilled to announce that our edited collection, Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma, has just been published by Lever Press. It’s an open access book and can be downloaded for free from the publisher’s website: https://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/T/Trigger-Warnings

The collection includes a wide range of chapters in different genres addressing trigger warnings inside and outside the classroom.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction–Ian Barnard, Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Jada Patchigondla, Aneil Rallin, Morgan Read-Davidson, Ethan Trejo, and Kristi M. Wilson
  • Part I: Institutional Contexts
    • 1. Trigger Warnings, Intersections, and Pedagogical Oscillations–Kristi M. Wilson
    • 2. What Were Trigger Warnings? New Forms of Knowing and the Use of the Classroom–Kelli Fuery
    • 3. painful (hopeful) ruminations–Sophia Greco
  • Part II: Pedagogical Practices
    • 4. Composition vs. Creative Writing: A First-Year Instructor’s Reflection on the Use of Trigger Warnings in the Classroom–Megan Friess
    • 5. Trigger Warnings in the Classroom: An Examination of Student and Faculty Views–Rhyan Warmerdam
    • 6. Trigger Warnings, Wokeness, and CRT: Containment Rhetoric and the Straw (Wo)Man Student–Wendy Hayden
    • 7. The Case Against Trigger Warnings–David J. Morris
    • 8. Now What? When an Entire Course Needs a Content Warning–Michele Parker Randall
    • 9. Trigger Warnings and a Pedagogy of Trust–Morgan Read-Davidson
  • Part III: Queer/Feminist/Anti-Racist Interventions
    • 10. Trigger Warnings, or an Autoethnography of Trauma and Marked Spaces–Ryan Ashley Caldwell
    • 11. How to Give Trigger Warnings that Don’t Sustain Global Capitalist White Supremacist Heteronormative Patriarchy and its Yearnings?–Aneil Rallin
    • 12. Triggers in Teaching African American Literature–Gregory Shafer
    • 13. At the Gates: The Strange Career of the Trigger Warning–Walter Lucken IV
  • Part IV: Political Predicaments
    • 14. From Sea to Shining Sea: Trigger Warnings and Rhetorical Decay in California and South Carolina Classrooms–Paolena Comouche
    • 15. (Un)Comfortable Subjects: How Trigger Warnings and the Experiences of Military-Affiliated Students Compel Us to Reflect on Agency, Engagement, and Belonging–Corrine E. Hinton
    • 16. Rehistoricizing Trigger Warnings amid the Post-9/11 US Security State–Kevin C. Moore
  • Part V: Media Engagements
    • 17. “Please Listen with Care”: Learning from Podcast Content Warnings–Whitney Lew James
    • 18. Spoiler: This May Contain Sensitive Content—Warnings, the Social Media of Books, and Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us–Pauline Menchavez
    • 19. Teaching “Memories That Smell Like Gasoline”: Holding Space for Inner Rhetorics–Jessica Shumake
  • Afterword: Trigger Warnings, Trauma, and Their “Affects”–Anu Aneja

Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma. Edited by Ian Barnard, Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Jada Patchigondla, Ethan Trejo, Aneil Rallin, Morgan Read-Davidson, and Kristi M. Wilson.

Ian Barnard <http://ianbarnard.weebly.com/>, Ph.D.
Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Chapman
University
Professor Emeritx of English, California State University, Northridge