Survey Monkey

Since I won’t be in class tonight (Dr. Mahoney please let me know if you got my email and Conference Proposal attachment), I thought I’d offer some content for the survey.
1. Ways to improve the website.
                        -For example, when I was looking at grad schools to attend, I found that the Graduate Dept. website was [...]

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Straight Man

So I spent alot of time on the Conference Proposal this week, in addition to finishing up projects for 3 other classes – yay having a blend of masters and undergrad work, where each sabotages the other.  i did get a good chunk of Straight Man read, and as the others have said, it was [...]

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There must be something wrong with me.

Office Hours was vaguely interesting for me, but I didn’t feel the outrage that seemed to be required, maybe because of my lack of direction. So I have to conclude that there’s something wrong with me, since Straight Man gave me horrified chills. This isn’t the correct reaction, yes?
I don’t think I’ve felt this way [...]

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Office Hours

Sorry I didn’t post prior to class. Apparently, the site wasn’t updating properly for me so I didn’t see anyone’s post until I got home.
Anyway, I’m just going to keep this short, since I already said most of what I wanted to say in class. I do want to ask this question (and please [...]

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lion tail?
theend

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depressing but inspiring

The flu finally got me and got me bad.  Sorry to miss class tonight but I’m still not feeling well and didn’t want to spread it around.
Office Hours made transparent many of the double-standards, unethical behaviors, and hypocrisies that have reigned supreme in the ivory towers of academia since I first entered them decades ago.  [...]

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Office Hours…am I reading the same thing aaaaaaaaaaaagain??

I truly feel as though I am reading the same thing over and over. Kevin aka Dr. Mahoney aka Teach- this is not a slam on you, but I have had it with these English Studies texts. I guess I am just very ready for Christmas Break. OK, so since I do need to make [...]

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Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like this book

Well, reading Office Hours was certainly depressing. It seems that the recurring theme everywhere I look these days is that life as we know it is going to cease to exist. Everything is in turmoil, the economy, democracy, education, the ozone, healthcare, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world is going to end…blah, blah, [...]

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Shooting the Sh**

Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt enjoy shooting the shit. Urban Dictionary defines “shooting the shit” as 1.) Talking with others just to pass the time, the topic of conversation may vary, but in general there is no point to be made.  Of course, Nelson and Watt’s are making a point to take collective action to [...]

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Going Down with the Ship

Here’s a quick test of your knowledge of English studies. 
Choose the quote that doesn’t apply to what we have learned this semester:
A.  Many speak of the discipline of English studies as being in crisis-a kind of identity crisis wherein we as a field are desperately attempting to pin down exactly what constitutes the discipline.
B.  English studies is in [...]

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Thanksgiving and Giving thanks.

Last week just flew past me. Wednesday to Sunday seemed like a single day to me. What with the Turkeys and all that goes with them thereafter? After Thanksgiving day, to me, came the day of giving thanks. After four and a half years, my cousin in Kenya, who is surprisingly a head of department [...]

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12/2

So i have a problem this week. Due to lack of funds, i have been buying the books one at a time, instead of in a lump sum at the beginning of the semester.  The bookstore, apparently, stops carrying all the books for all the classes towards the end of the semester.  It makes perfect [...]

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Nice little Thanksgiving read

There’s a couple things I’ve learned during my time at Kutztown. I’ve learned that Jenna Jameson is a feminist, that men change G strings too, and never to do a paper topic even remotely related to Megan’s (paper topic). I’ve learned not to suggest to the chair of the department that you could do a [...]

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The On-the-Ground Approach to Changing the Academy

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is clear that the authors are dyed-in-the-wool activists, and while they are agitating here on the dire state of college English studies, one gets the impression they are spoiling to join an argument on just about anything else.
The topics covered in the essays create an excellent [...]

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Reactions to Office Hours

Even though I didn’t directly read through Office Hours, (I skipped around) I have to say that I did enjoy it. The tone, I felt, was on my level, as if Nelson and Watt were coworkers having a conversation with me after work. I enjoyed how they put things into perspective for English majors, especially [...]

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“Come with me if you want to live.”

I’m really into Office Hours. In fact, I’m so into it that I have really put off finishing my conference paper draft for Wednesday. Let that be fair warning Dr. Mahoney.
Allow me enlighten you all with a story.
When I was a young girl, I used to watch Terminator 1 & 2 constantly (as in many times [...]

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Okay, now I’m really starting to freak out

“Yet seven years in a comp paper writing sweat shop is not the most benign gift higher education has ever offered” (42).
First it was Scholes telling me there are far more PhDs than there are jobs;  now, Cary Nelson is painting a thoroughly tragic picture of the post-doc world.
Nelson writes, “As many graduates learn instead, [...]

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We’re ALL Teachers of English

**Was locked out of word press and was not able to post this yesterday prior to class**
Article 4: We’re ALL Teachers of English- by Caren J. Town
Wow- what a new concept: high school teachers and college educators working together in order to bridge the academic gap between these two institutions. Wait, I think Scholes might [...]

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Academic Study Plan

            So, here I am once again, attempting to figure out what my plan for my life is. Things have been so hectic in my day to day life recently, that I have not really had the opportunity to stop and think much about what exactly it is that I intend to do over the [...]

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Berlin: Complete Review

Dr. Mahoney–
Uploaded the final on Berlin’s review to the Media center. Will bring hard copies of review and personal study tonight so less printing for you. Either way, electronic copies are the same as hard copy.
Thanks,

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