This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point-authorship contested. Each chapter focuses on particular instances in which authorship has been contested, demonstrating how theories about various forms of contested authorship play out in a range of events, from the complex issues surrounding peer review to authorship in the age of intelligent machines.

Amy E. Robillard is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Illinois State University, USA

Ron Fortune is Professor Emeritus of English Emeritus at Illinois State University, USA

Foreword Rebecca Moore Howard Introduction Amy E. Robillard and Ron Fortune Part 1: Contrived Authorship 1. A Gay Girl in Damascus: Multi-vocal Construction and Refutation of Authorial Ethos Julia Marie Smith 2. Writing in the Dead Zone: Authorship in the Age of Intelligent Machines Kyle Jensen 3. Writers Who Forge: Forgery as a Response to Contested Authorship Ron Fortune Part 2: Distributed Authorship 4. Authorial Ethos as Location: How Technical Manuals Embody Authorial Ethos without Authors Erin A. Frost and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins 5. The Kairos of Authorship in Activist Rhetoric Seth Kahn and Kevin Mahoney 6. In the Author's Hands: Contesting Authorship and Ownership in Fan Fiction Rachel Parish Part 3: Excluded Authorship 7. Writing After Stonewall: The Lost Forms of Gay Authorship James Zebroski 8. The Sound of Silence: Defense of Marriage, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and Post-Authorship Theory Paul Butler 9. The Emotional Contests of Peer Review Amy E. Robillard Part 4: Nascent Authorship 10. 'I Feel Like this is Fake': Spontaneous Mediocrity and Studied Genius Val Perry Rendel 11. Student Intellectual Property in the Age of Permissions: Fostering a Gift Economy in First-Year Writing Programs Matt Hollrah 12. Authorizing Plagiarism Joseph Harris