There are many impediments to writing in the academic context for graduate students and faculty alike. For grad students, there are often teaching responsibilities that seem more important than one’s dissertation; of course, learning to teach is itself incredibly time consuming. For faculty, there are increasingly unmanageable workloads, which tends to push scholarship down theContinue reading “Writing in Concert as Creating a Shared World”
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Writing Anxiety Through an Existentialist Lens
Writing is often anxiety producing. The experience has become so widespread for students that many college and university writing centers have information about how to deal with it (for instance: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/writing-anxiety/ and https://www.vanderbilt.edu/writing/resources/handouts/coping-with-writing-anxiety/). This information is often quite useful, and I would recommend their practical advice to those who are struggling. But I want toContinue reading “Writing Anxiety Through an Existentialist Lens”
On Death and Loss
My dad died, and that has led me to the grand insights that death is weird, and losing a loved one is hard. I know: not exactly insightful. But I’ve been trying to think about why death is weird and loss is hard. I’ve been thinking about Martin Heidegger, whose Being and Time focuses inContinue reading “On Death and Loss”
On Legislating Sexuality, Gender, and Race(ism): Hannah Arendt and the Loss of Plurality
There are many possible responses to the myriad attempts to legislate gender, sexuality, and race across the country, including: Florida’s recently passed “Don’t Say Gay” bill (https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-florida-desantis) Texas’s prosecution of gender-affirming care for minors as child abuse (https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/22/texas-transgender-teenagers-medical-care/) Numerous states’ attempts to ban the teaching of what has come to be called Critical Race TheoryContinue reading “On Legislating Sexuality, Gender, and Race(ism): Hannah Arendt and the Loss of Plurality”
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