Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research
5. Stumbling into Wisdom in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Re s earch 3
6. Part I Intersections of Personal and Political
7. 1 “Oh, My God! He Was a Slave ! ” 17
8. 2 Making Sense of Disaster 28
9. 3 Death, Dying, and Serendipity in the Scholarly Imagination 44
10. Part II Intersections of Personal and Professional
11. 4 Fortuitous Happenstance 59
12. 5 Pre - Sentence 70
13. 6 Echoes in the Archives 80
14. 7 Serendipity and Memory 92
15. Part III Stumbling into the Unknown
16. 8 The Serendipity of (Mis)Timing in Research 103
17. 9 Setting Out for Serendip 117
18. 10 The Art of the “Accident” 129
19. 11 Reading between the Power Lines 138
20. Part IV Methodology and Serendipity
21. 12 Prepare to be surprised 153
22. 13 Playing the Name Game 164
23. 14 Serendipity and Methodological Willingness in Team Science 175
24. 15 The Sunshine of Serendipity 190
25. 16 Serendology, Methodipity 205
26. Part V Trusting the Process
27. 17 The Ethics of S erendipity 221
28. 18 Creating Kismet 237
29. 19 Coordinating Chaos and Befriending a Fuzzy Focus 247
30. 20 The Strange Practices of Serendipitous Failure 257
31. Afterword 267
32. About the Authors 275
33. Subject Index 279
34. Name Index 287