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In composition studies, textual cosmopolitanism refers to the ability to navigate writing conventions in multiple modalities. Building on this idea results in a model of intellectual cosmopolitanism that can accommodate complex subject matter, like medical humanities, as well as writing pedagogy. Intellectual cosmopolitanism encourages meaningful engagement with both subject matter and writing conventions and thus can enrich medical humanities, constituted in medical education or as humanistic inquiry and pedagogy. Stewardship, which presupposes respect for all scholarship and encourages accommodation and collaboration, underpins intellectual cosmopolitanism. Ultimately, intellectual cosmopolitans serve as stewards rather than owners, a model of teaching and scholarship consistent with Doug Hesse’s construction of writing studies.
To begin (writing, living), we must have death.
—Helene Cixous.
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DeTora, L. (2017). Intellectual Cosmopolitanism as Stewardship in Medical Humanities and Undergraduate Writing Pedagogy. In: Hilger, S. (eds) New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51988-7_4
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