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[meme] Things people don't know about me/AMA. Come ask me things!
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I've moved five times, and while I've never lived full time in Wisconsin, that's where most of my family is and where I call home
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I'm adopted!
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I was the oldest sibling, but my brother passed away seven years ago. People get awkward when they find out which makes ME feel awkward, BUT. I love talking about him and telling stories
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I failed my freshman year of college and worked at Starbucks and did internships for a while before I figured my shit out
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Then I did retail again after I graduated college before I went back to grad school to teach
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I have a BA in English Lit and French language (double major wooo), an MA in English Lit, and I'm working on my PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
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I teach Freshman Comp while I'm finishing my degree, and want to keep teaching college English
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OMG A FELL RHET/COMP
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*fellow....
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grabby hands RHET COMP COME TO MY BOSOM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAH i'm defending my diss sometime in the next two months
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omg omg EXCITEMENT!
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how far along are you in your program?
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I take comps in the fall!!!!
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AAAAH good luck
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i actually preferred comps to diss writing i'm not gonna lie
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So I'm working on my justification for my third area of study rn
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what are your areas?
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For my program, you HAVE to do history of rhet and applied rhet
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oof
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and then your third area should relate to what you want to teach and also to your diss
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I want to teach Brit Lit that's like, been my main focus?
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But my diss is about dystopian sci-fi
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i had public sphere, queer/gender theory, aaaand institutional rhetorics
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omg that is so cool
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So I'm gonna do Brit Lit Post 1760, but specifically works on monstrosity/spec fic/sci-fi so that works into my diss
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In a - vague way
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......... mine is about sexual assault in the military i really wish I had done rhetorics of fantasy for my sanity
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omg that is so cool
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o o f that's a rough subject to sped two years with
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But also really important work to do, so I am PROUD OF YOU for sticking with it
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it sure is but i got really passionate about it and i used to work at a military college so my students kind of inspired my interest
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My work concentrates on the idea of communities in dystopian sci fi?
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i love
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i've done a bit with bodily representation/embodiment in fantasy and sci-fi
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Like, having read and watched a LOT of it, I realized that if it's like the one dude against the oppressive regime, you get an unhappy ending
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But if people come together against it, then you get like The Hunger Games or Mad Max where there's hope at the end
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i'm softly screaming this is so neat
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So basically I took my love of found families and made it my work haha XD
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It's been SO much fun?
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I did a short version for my MA thesis
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my MA thesis was medieval literature xD
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Where I just looked closely at four texts to be like see here's basically what I'm talking about. And now for my diss I'm taking it more global and looking at African, East Asian, and other non-white non-Western works
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omg my BFF is a medievalist
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that is so neat
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She's writing her thesis on Sir Gawain as a queer figure
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SCREAMS
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(specifically asexual and biromantic)
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mine was about creating a new model since the hero's journey only covers so much and if you have to invert it/skew it to talk about a text, you're ot really using the model anymore
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oh man, that's so true!!
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Jugnian tropes can only take us so far
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so my thesis is all about the king's journey and i use king horn, beowulf, lord of the rings, and game of thrones
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Oh man awesome idea
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it was really fun
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I worked with The Hunger Games, Mad Max: Fury Road, Stephen King's Running Man, and Cloud Atlas
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aaaaah awesome
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What are you hoping to do with your degree?
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i'm currently on the job market and i really want to teach
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(college)
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same same
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I'm actually trying to finish up an upper-level writing class syllabus so i can send it off to a job xD they asked for more materials so i'm like OK
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I've been really lucky that my uni basically pawns off the freshman comp classes onto their PhD students?
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..... and i meant to get it in last week but i had to grade a bunch of research papers and what is time
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oh yeah our grad students are like 90% teaching
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I'm grateful for it! I love the classroom experience
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rofl yes ugh grading bane of my existance
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there's some administrative and research assistantships but if you're getting a degree in our program you're gonna teach
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this is their major assignment for the semester so i wanted to knock it out x_X but it meant job stuff fell by the wayside for a minute
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I have an interview this evening with our BRAND NEW RHET PROFESSOR because they're going to teach a 4000 level Queer Lit and Theory class and they're looking for a GA
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AAAAAAAAAAAAH JEALOUS
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that is so cool
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good luck i hope you get it!!!
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So I'm hoping to land that, and then I'd GA for them and I'd teach one class
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amazing
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i've done tech writing but i really want to teach a writing and social justice class
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Oh man, yeah
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it wasn't in the cards this year But i have a syllabus written
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A lot of my colleagues who have been here longer have taught themed classes like that
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Like we're allowed to if we get it approved?
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i love it
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I'm just to skeered to yet XD
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grad students don't get to teach a lot of upper level courses for some reason but you can make it work if you find something
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like we have a medical rhetoric and literature 3000 level course, writing and social justice is 3000 level, tech writing, business writing, etc
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oooh
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We don't have a big writing program? We're a smaller school
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But all students are required to take Comp 1 and 2
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we're huge
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So that's what I teach
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and yeah all students have to take first year writing and our department is solely responsible for that
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(Virginia Tech, I'm at Virginia Tech)
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Oh sweet, awesome school!
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Our first year comp department is like. It's sort of its own thing but it's also mostly a subset of the ESFL department
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I'm at Texas Woman's
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We are bitty
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nice!
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i'm so glad you get the teaching opportunities though
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that's invaluable on the job market
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It really is
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I'm also glad I did the lit MA and the rhet/comp PhD
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me too
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So they will look at me and be like "Oh wow she can teach all the things!"
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In theory
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exactly!!
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and i've taught lit classes before so if you get the chance to teach a mixed course/lit course it looks great on a CV
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I "guest lectured" a lit course
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There wasn't any money in the budget to take me on as a GA for this class but it was Comics as Resistance and I was like hi let me do it
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Just like
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Look I already wrote you an assignment
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oh my goooood
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Let me do the thing
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i guest lectured in an old english class and that was so fun
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And since it was my mentor she was like "Oh my god if you stop asking I'll let you"
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akfa;lga
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good mentor
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she's the best
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I love our tiny department
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little departments are great
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We're mostly a nursing school? So our ESFL department is like
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Six people and a shoelace
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ours feels tiny because we are woefully understaffed for the size of our program xD
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mmmm I FEEL THIS FEEL
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we haven't had a department chair for like 2 years
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we just hired one
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how are you coping with the online shit. Cuz I feel like I'm a giant struggle bus with the whole thing
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i've taught online before so it wasn't a huge struggle to convert BUT
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i've been way lenient on my students because THEY didn't sign up for an online course
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SAME
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Like "... it's due friday but turn it in over the weekend sometime"
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I've never taught online before so I'm like
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and it was kind of good timing (if you can call it that) because they were working on their big research project so mostly.... they just needed time to write
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that's a mood, it takes getting used to and having to do with little to no prep time is ROUGH
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I'm likely going to have to teach online again in the fall. The unofficial word is that if you have more than 12 students in your course, then you're online
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it's fine we're fine this is fine
it's fine we're fine this is fine
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well if you need any help/hints, i'm happy to do what i can
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I super appreciate that!
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what site do you all use? blackboard?
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Rofl in a controversial move, we abandoned blackboard for Canvas
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(i like blackboard :< )
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AAAH WE HAVE CANVAS
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i actually love canvas like... 90% of the time
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that's kind of nice though like if you need help or anything i'll know what your screen looks like xD
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I'm getting USED to Canvas
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sometimes I just save instead of save and publish, it's a problem
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ngl it took me a solid semester/year
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YEP
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and you're like "... no i did that why can't you see it"
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I now obsessively use student view
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good move
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oh hey idk if you know but OSU just made a bunch of books free
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Recently added
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they have rhetoric books in there but also just some cool stuff
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Oh nice!!!!