Can civic engagement rescue the humanities? / David D. Cooper -- Cultural studies, compassion, and the promise of community-based learning / Daniel S. Malachuk -- Servicing reading : community work and the revaluation of literary study / Kara L. Mollis -- The humanities as a vocation / Arthur Strum -- Talking and walking : literary work as public work / Anna Sims Bartel -- To serve, perchance to learn : a play in four acts / Eric Daigre ... [et al.] -- Leer y escribir la frontera : language, literature, and community engagement in the San Diego-Tijuana borderlands / Kevin Guerrieri -- Rewriting the egg : community-based learning, German literature, and intercultural competence / Isolde Mueller -- Two old women and a mature approach to service-learning / Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien -- Indigenous theory and service-learning : a Dakota case study / Penelope Kelsey -- Search and service : discovering primary and secondary source information / Nina V. Salmon -- Reconnecting the disconnect : exploring the links between literary studies and community service / Susan Danielson -- The rhetoric of healing : community-based learning from an ecocritical perspective / Breyan Strickler -- Taking literature to the children : community-based learning and children's literature / Marilyn Melahn Senter -- Segue into the community : a wired community-based learning course proposal for writers on a two-year campus / Eric Melbye.