Thanks for letting us know, Russ. That's sad news indeed. I have a
wonderful memory of Jim at my very first CCCC--San Francisco in the early
1980s(!). In a very informal and genial way, he shepherded a group of us
walking from the piers all the way back to the hotel, including a stop at
Ferlinghetti's bookstore. (Does anyone else remember that?) This was my
first big conference! For me, Jim helped set the tone that I came to
associate with so many of our gatherings from then on: collaboration,
exploration, support, and fun.
~Amanda
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 14:59, Doug Brent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for sharing this, Russ. I remember Jim, and some of the other
> Inkshed founding folks (yourself included), as true intellectual mentors as
> I was transitioning from a half-assed remedial writing teacher with an
> English Lit degree and no idea how to teach writing, to a real writing
> studies teacher and scholar. The writing community of the 80s and 90s owed
> him a great deal and he will be remedied fondly by all of us.
>
> Dr. Doug Brent, Professor Emeritus
> Department of Communication, Media and Film
> University of Calgary
>
> On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Russell Hunt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I thought I should write and let Inkshedders know that Jim Reither died a
> week ago. He’d been ill for some years, so the death was not unexpected. He
> had been out of touch with most Inkshedders since his early retirement in
> the mid-nineties. He’d been living in Albuquerque for decades.
>
>
>
> He was, as most Inkshedders are aware, a centrally important force in
> shaping the ideas that underlay the organization and its role, and was
> centrally responsible for the creation and maintenance of Inkshed for its
> first decade. His ideas remain influential among those of us who care about
> the learning and teaching of literacy. Particularly powerful are his
> “Writing and Knowing: Toward Redefining the Writing Process” (_College
> English_, 1985), and his and Doug Vipond’s “Writing as Collaboration”
> (_College English_, 1989). It has been argued that his and other
> Inkshedders’ work in the mid-eighties represented a turning point in the
> teaching of writing, from thinking of composition as a cognitive process to
> seeing it as centrally a social one. See, for instance, Kristopher Lotier’s
> “Around 1986: the Externalization of Cognition and the Emergence of
> Postprocess Invention” (_*CCCC*_, 2016).
>
>
>
> - Russ
>
>
>
> Russ Hunt
>
> Professor Emeritus of English
>
> St. Thomas University
>
> people.stu.ca/~hunt
>
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