Living, working, and writing on the eastcoast. Grown and raised on the westcoast. This is an academic blog about reading, writing, place, and agrarian politics. Saturday, November 05, 2011. Likely that is the direction I will go. More to come as I revamp and get going again. Wednesday, June 16, 2010.

Reflective Thoughts of Issues Related to Composition and Cultural Rhetoric. Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounter.

Samuels, Re-Inventing the Modern University. Samuels advocates for placing WAC at intellectual center in universities, emphasizing its cultural and historical elements.

Graduate perspectives on literature and literary studies. Classic, graphic, alice. My first response to this was NO! Middle Passage was to be transformed into a graphic novel for D. But once I collected myself and recalled the story, I decided that instead, I applaud Lance Tooks.

Sherry Turkle edits a delightful, moving anthology that puts objects and their human relations front and center. I like this book because from a rhetorical perspective, the chapters resonate. The stories authors tell, the epigraphs Turkle chose to accompany each chapter, and the insig.

This page consists of notes and discussion for a graduate course. This is not intended to be a space of formal publication. Often there will be informal paraphrases, citations, and patchworking of ideas, phrases, and quotes from original texts. All posts are works in PROgress. Saturday, April 12, 2008.