Front Matter -- Preface: Yes, I Know That Expressivism Is out of Vogue, But ..., Lizbeth Bryant -- Re-Imagining Expressivism: An Introduction, Tara Roeder and Roseanne Gatto -- Section One: Critical Self-Construction -- "Personal Writing" and "Expressivism" as Problematic Terms, Peter Elbow -- Selfhood and the Personal Essay: A Pragmatic Defense, Thomas Newkirk -- Critical Memoir and Identity Formation: Being, Belonging, Becoming, Nancy Mack -- Critical Expressivism's Alchemical Challenge, Derek Owens -- Past-Writing: Negotiating the Complexity of Experience and Memory, Jean Bessette -- Essai-A Metaphor: Writing to Show Thinking, Lea Povozhaev -- Section Two: Personal Writing and Social Change -- Communication as Social Action: Critical Expressivist Pedagogies in the Writing Classroom, Patricia Webb Boyd -- From the Personal to the Social, Daniel F. Collins -- "Is it Possible to Teach Writing So That People Stop Killing Each Other?" Nonviolence, Composition, and Critical Expressivism, Scott Wagar -- The (Un)Knowable Self and Others: Critical Empathy and Expressivism, Eric Leake -- Section Three: Histories -- John Watson Is to Introspectionism as James Berlin Is to Expressivism (And Other Analogies You Won't Find on the SAT), Maja Wilson -- Expressive Pedagogies in the University of Pittsburgh's Alternative Curriculum Program, 1973-1979, Chris Warnick -- Rereading Romanticism, Rereading Expressivism: Revising "Voice" through Wordsworth's Prefaces, Hannah J. Rule -- Emerson's Pragmatic Call for Critical Conscience: Double Consciousness, Cognition, and Human Nature, Anthony Petruzzi -- Section Four: Pedagogies -- Place-Based Genre Writing as Critical Expressivist Practice, David Seitz -- Multicultural Critical Pedagogy in the Community-Based Classroom: A Motivation for Foregrounding the Personal, Kim M. Davis -- The Economy of Expressivism and Its Legacy of Low/No-Stakes Writing, Sheri Rysdam -- Revisiting Radical Revision, Jeff Sommers -- Contributors

Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit." The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by "a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field."

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