Edited by four nationally recognized leaders of composition scholarshipampampnbspComposition Rhetoric and Disciplinarityampampnbspasks a fundamental question can Composition and Rhetoric as a discipline continue its historical commitment to pedagogy without sacrificing equal attention to other areas such as research and theory In response contributors to the volume address disagreements about what it means to be called a discipline rather than a profession or a field elucidate tensions over the defined breadth of Composition and Rhetoric and consider the roles of research and responsibility as Composition and Rhetoric shifts from field to discipline. Outlining a field with a complex and unusual formation storyampampnbspComposition Rhetoric and Disciplinarityampampnbspemploys several lenses for understanding disciplinaritytheory history labor and pedagogyand for teasing out the implications of disciplinarity for students faculty institutions and Composition and Rhetoric itself. Collectively the chapters speak to the intellectual and embodied history leading to this point to questions about how disciplinarity is and might be understood especially with regard to Composition and Rhetoric to the curricular conceptual labor and other sites of tension inherent in thinking about Composition and Rhetoric as a discipline and to the implications of Composition and Rhetorics disciplinarity for the future.