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Catch Feelings: Class Affect And Performativity In Teaching Associates' Narratives, Anna Rita Napoleone

Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation, I argue that a better understanding of class affectations in teacher identity and the social space of academia may lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the way class manifests itself in academic spaces. Previous research in Composition and Rhetoric has shown that social class, specifically working-class literacy practices, frequently challenges or is in direct opposition to academic literacy practices, and that teachers respond to such class interference negatively. Little research has been done on how teachers' attachments to certain class norms and/or backgrounds affects how they interact with academic literacy and/or how they respond to students. …