threat of violence closes YVCC again (but only in late April?)

Deb just emailed me to let me know what campus security closed down YVCC today due to a threat of violence. The same thing happened last year. I checked a post I wrote about it last year, and it was almost exactly a year ago. What’s this? Someone gets spring fever and the [...]

Chaucer Pardoner stuff to get at library (often updated)

Gabriele Cocco. “I Trowe He were a Gelding or a Mare. A Veiled Description of a Bent Pardoner.” Neophilologus (2008) 92:359–366. Downloaded PDF.
Rowland, Beryl. Animal Imagery and the Pardoner’s Abnormality. Neophilologus Volume 48 Issue 1, 56-60. Dec 1964. Req’d via Summit 05-11-08 (U of O).
Green, Richard Firth. “Further Evidence for Chaucer’s Representation of the [...]

strange blessing

I’m working on a literacy narrative, an autoethnography, for my Literacy Studies class, and I just came across this quote from Mike Rose.  I like the sense of loving/accepting our histories, no matter how much we wish they had been “better,” and the line about the world inviting and denying language.  Very true.
Desire gets confused [...]

dorm room in Waldo Hall c. 1908

Check this out! From the OSU Library Archives: “From left to right: Faye Roadruck ‘08; Jessie Davidson ‘09; Gertrude Davidson ‘08. Photo was used in the 1908-1909 college catalog in the picture section.”
The OSU Writing Center, and where I spent most of my time, is in the basement of Waldo Hall. It’d be [...]

even more for religion in the writing classroom bibliography

I’m baaaack!
Anderson, Chris. Teaching as Believing: Faith in the University. Baylor UP, 2004. Ordered via Amazon, early April ‘08.
Thelin, William Howard. A PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF A WRITING CLASSROOM USING POLITICIZED READINGS AS A CORPUS FOR ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS. Diss. Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 1997. ILL’d 4-10-08 297676
ABSTRACT. This study examines a first year writing course [...]