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

[1174] Freedman, A. (1997). Navigating the Current of Economic Policy: Written Genres and the Distribution of Cognitive Work at a Financial Institution. (Smart, G., Ed.).Mind, Culture, and Activity. 4(4), 238–255.

[969] Sullivan, D. (1991). The Epideictic Rhetoric of Science. Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 5, 229–245.

Glossary Sample

Mutt genre

Genres that share superficial conventions with other genres but have been taken out of their original context, resulting in obscured audiences and purposes. "[M]utt genres . . . mimic genres that mediate activities in other activity systems, but within the FYC [first-year composition] system their purposes and audiences are vague or even contradictory. They are quite different from and serve very different purposes in FYC than they do in other disciplinary activity systems" (Wardle, 2009, p. 774).

User Spotlight

geoffsauer

Name: Geoffrey Sauer

Institution: Iowa State University

Department/Program Affiliation: Rhetoric and Professional Communication

Education: Ph.D., English, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998

Status: Associate Professor. Director, ISU Studio for New Media. Director, EServer.org

Website: http://eserver.org/geoff/

Twitter: geoffsauer

Biography: I teach courses about new media in workplace and technical communication, including courses in web design, content management systems, nonlinear video editing, film theory, social media, and usability. My research focuses on the history of publishing, both from theoretical perspectives (using both cultural and rhetorical theory) and in pragmatics (typography, offset printing, online document management, new media, genre studies). I am the director of both the ISU Studio for New Media and the electronic publishing project EServer.org.