Genre Across Borders (GXB) | an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, theories, and resources

About GXB

Genre is a idea that crosses disciplinary, national, methodological, conceptual, and pedagogical borders. The purpose of Genre across Borders (GXB) is to advance genre theory and research by helping scholars and students cross these borders. The site combines two primary functions:

As a reference guide to scholarship in the many fields of genre study
As a networking portal for scholars and teachers

GXB aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the multiple strands of genre scholarship and their relationships, in order to catalyze intellectual exchange and pedagogical innovation and to help us understand the processes and motivations of genre development, evolution, and circulation.

GXB now features translations of research introductions on our Research page. Contact us to contribute a translation. You may also select an interface display language on your Profile page.

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Sample Bibliography

[1036] Mirtz, R. (1994). The Territorial Demands of Form and Process: The Case for Student Writing as a Genre. (Bishop, W., & Ostrom H., Ed.).Genre and Writing: Issues, Arguments, Alternatives. 190–198.

[RN170] Popham, S. L. (2005). Forms as Boundary Genres in Medicine, Science, and Business. Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 19, 279-303.

Glossary Sample

Occluded genre

A genre that is "out of sight" to "outsiders and apprentices"; occluded genres perform "essential waystage roles in the administrative and evaluative functioning of the research worlds" (Swales, 2004, p. 18). Swales...