Placing the Academy : Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity / / edited by Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman.
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 teac...
Saved in:
| : | |
|---|---|
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| 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. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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.