Monthly Archives: May 2012

Like Being at an Academic Conference, This Post is All Over the Place

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Jessica Yood

I am trying to figure out the meaning behind what could be the most significant ritual of academic life: the conference.  I’m mostly referring to the big national conferences,  like the MLA or the CCCC but regional conventions work for this cultural-rhetorical … Continue reading →

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Beginning Again and the End of Teaching

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Jessica Yood

What is teaching?  Is it conversation, community, correctness, conversion? Does it begin and end with the classroom, with students, with knowledge? In my parochial vision, I think of teaching in terms of the Humanities, a project that, in one scholar’s … Continue reading →

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May

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Jessica Yood

Psalms for David   He exists across an ocean of memory.  It is deep, almost frozen, and swimming with monsters.  Beowulf, on a dare, once swam across an icy sea in his suit of mail.  There were sea beasts–“fiend-corpses“–that tried … Continue reading →

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Tactics, Topics, Threes

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Jessica Yood

Five pages by 3pm.  Six hours on Tuesday.  Half a section before lunch.  These are proclamations towards progress, strategies to start and finish, ways to get it, writing, done. I remember when I first used these heuristics. In graduate school, … Continue reading →

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Ideas, Innovation and Some Eczema

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Jessica Yood
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