How do we handle student disclosure, and how do we disclose information about ourselves in the classroom? How do professionalism, authority, and objectivity complicate this issue? Introduction Nels P. Highberg, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago; Senior Lecturer, Ohio State University "Me against the World" Zisca Burton, Lecturer, University of Miami Tight–lipped in Texas Cathy Gabor, Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Christian University It Takes One to Know One Brenda Weber, Associate Director of Undergraduate Education, University of Kentucky Politics, Pedagogy, and Personal Disclosure Johnson Cheu, Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University; Curriculum Consultant, LEND Program, Ohio State University Negotiating Teacher Identity: Challenges and Opportunities for Learning Eric Estes, Mellon Writing Fellow, Duke University Telling Laura Milner, Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University; Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University of Pennsylvania There's Personal, and Then There's Personal Candace Spigelman, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Berks–Lehigh Valley College History in the Composition Classroom: Finding a Place in the Academy Mary Kelly Persyn, Research Assistant, Civil Rights Project, Harvard Law School The Personal Is Inevitable Donald N. S. Unger, Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Albany The Ways We Disclose: When Life–Writing Becomes Writing Your Life Wendy L. Chrisman, Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University     Responses to Personal Disclosure in the Composition Classroom      Zisca Burton, Lecturer, University of Miami      Johnson Cheu, Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University; Curriculum Consultant, LEND Program, Ohio State University      Laura Milner, Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University; Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University of Pennsylvania      Candace Spigelman, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Berks–Lehigh Valley College      Donald N. S. Unger, Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Albany      Brenda Weber, Associate Director of Undergraduate Education, University of Kentucky