Archive for September, 2009
A couple of years ago I took a year off from grad school. I returned to my home state of Minnesota and worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer in central Minneapolis, helping poor adults improve their computer skills so that they had a better chance of getting jobs. I lived at my mother and stepfather’s house, […]
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September 30th, 2009
When I teach, one of the things I try to instill in my students is an ability to reflect critically on their own processes—how they write, how they read, how they think, how they learn. I try to learn about and think through my own processes, too. Turning an eye (or both) back onto the […]
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September 21st, 2009
Very broadly speaking, my dissertation examines the effect of Cold War-era sexual politics on the composition and publication of the long poems written by American poets of the twentieth century. Before I go into how I got here, a few explanations:
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September 3rd, 2009