Placing the Academy : Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity / / edited by Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman.

• Author: Sinor, Jennifer
• TeilnehmendeR: Kaufman, Rona, 1970-; Sinor, Jennifer, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2007.; ©2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A set of creative writers here responds to the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are—where, for each of them, being somehow part of the academy. Their personal essays delineate the diverse, sometimes unexpected roles of place in shaping them, as writers and teachers in varied environments, through unique experiences and distinctive worldviews—in reconfiguring their conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between. Offering creative comments on place, identity, and academic work are authors Charles Bergman, Mary Clearman Blew, Jayne Brim Box, Jeffrey M. Buchanan, Norma Elia Cantú, Katherine Fischer, Kathryn T. Flannery, Diana Garcia, Janice M. Gould, Seán W. Henne, Rona Kaufman, Deborah A. Miranda, Erin E. Moore, Kathleen Dean Moore, Robert Michael Pyle, Jennifer Sinor, Scott Slovic, Michael Sowder, Lee Torda, Charles Waugh, and Mitsuye Yamada.

Table of Contents

Writing place / Jennifer Sinor -- Six kinds of rain: searching for a place in the academy / Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore -- The work the landscape calls us to / Michael Sowder -- Valley language / Diana Garcia -- What I learned from the campus plumber / Charles Bergman -- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter / Katherine Fischer -- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college / Seán W. Henne -- Levittown breeds anarchists! film at 11 / Kathryn T. Flannery -- Living in a transformed desert / Mitsuye Yamada -- A more fortunate destiny / Jayne Brim Box -- Imagined Vietnams / Charles Waugh -- Teaching on stolen ground / Deborah A. Miranda -- The blind teaching the blind: the academic as naturalist, or not / Robert Michael Pyle -- Where are you from? / Lee Torda -- Going away to think / Scott Slovic -- Fronteriza consciousness: the site and language of the academy and of life / Norma Elia Cantú -- Bones of summer / Mary Clearman Blew -- Singing, speaking, and seeing a world / Janice M. Gould -- Making places work: felt sense, identity, and teaching / Jeffrey M. Buchanan -- Running in place: the personal at work, in motion, on campus, and in the neighborhood / Rona Kaufman.