"Explores how the pressures of austerity, diversity, and university politics shaped the writing program and curricula at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1980s, with relevant parallels for writing programs today"--

Nate Kreuter is Associate Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of Georgia. He is coeditor of Rhetoric and Guns.

Mark Garrett Longaker is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, English, Communication Studies, and European Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, also published by Penn State University Press.