If the university is open we hold class. To find out if the university is open, go to the UMD website. Usually the first item in the news says if open or not when that is in question. But you can also go here too: http://www.umd.edu/emergencypreparedness/weather_emer/
If the university is delayed it most likely won't affect our class at 4 pm. If closed, then do the assignment at home, if possible talk to class buddies, follow any instructions on the website. Then go on to next week's work. We continue our work at home, we don't postpone anything usually. Any exceptions I will indicate on the website. Don't stop. It is flexible time: we won't be doing anything in real time on the web, but it is not a free week: continue your work please, come into class next time having done it and also prepared for next class. (The university has a state-mandated number of days of instruction and if we were to miss too many, we would be required to meet for class after the usual end of the term. But if we have continued working, as I have indicated here, then we do not have to do that. There have been years where we were all very glad to have kept up at home no matter what!)
This is what our schedule is for this week. The schedule and additional items to our syllabus will be added as soon as possible. The due date for logbook 1 has been altered as you can see here now. Remember, changes to the schedule can always happen, so checking the website several times each week matters!
Tuesday 17 February – Times and Places: what they say to each other
• READ: finish Paoletti’s book, and read four more stories from Gay Propaganda.
• NEXT CLASS: learn about the Workshops coming up and logbooks; TAB: workshops
How do these two books open up our expectations for the “tangled community, entangled communities: lesbians and always more” that our course is about? What is entangled in these books? How do they tangle together, how are they worlds apart? What timelines do they make vivid? What places do they shift and alter?
Be sure you have looked over the entire website carefully and explored links.
Catch up on any reading or web work you have not yet done.
We may have some time to play with gadgets in our new classroom too. I am trying to get up to speed with the equipment and what it can do for us. If you have worked with Smart boards yourself in other classes or even high school, let Katie know! We are still having trouble with swiping into the room and some of the equipment has still not been hooked up. I am working with tech folks to solve these problems.... Paoletti is using this room too for that class she told us about, researching the year 1975.
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Preparation for next week: we begin the class with an author visit, and then learn how to participate in Workshop 1, which will take place TUESDAY 10 MARCH! you will present either a paper or research poster: which decided by lottery in class 24 Feb!
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TWO: ACCELERATING QUEERNESS IN RE-PLACEMENTS
Tuesday 24 February – Sisterhood’s Table of Parts <ENSZER VISITS>
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READ: Enszer, Sisterhood: as much as you can.
Read as individual poems, but also read as a long story: what is that story
about? How do you know? What difference does it make to read many poems as well
as single poems? Pay close attention to the book’s Table of Parts: what sort of
poem is this too?
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If for any reason you have been unable to secure
a copy of the book for today’s assignment, then make a point of using the time
you would have spent reading the book to find our what you can about the
author, Julie Enszer, and reviews of the book, online. Bring that material into
class too.
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Bring questions for the author and interests to
share!
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CONSULT: Transgender Studies Quarterly: http://tsq.dukejournals.org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/content/by/year Look for the journal on the UMD Libs Research
Port system: http://researchport.umd.edu/ : figure out how to learn about a
journal and its history: Enszer may have pointers about how to do this….
Today we want to think of books and readings and
publications as alive, as companioning their authors, editors, and makers: they
are objects, gateways, bits of actual people, changing and connecting….
Enszer is faculty here
at UMD, has a PhD in the WMST program in which she works now, and is a long
time pioneer in transdisciplinary uses and promotions of creative writing as
theory and activism. She will visit our class today to talk about her books. So
bring your interests and questions, bouncing off what you have read and what
you have been able to find out about her and her work online! She is another of
several authors who will either visit class or who will be on campus for
exciting events! Find her website online….
The second half of class we will go over what you will do
for the first workshop, which will take place 10 March, in two weeks! We will
have a lottery to see whether you will do a paper or poster, if you will
collaborate, how to work with partners, and more! For more information and a
handout go to the TAB: workshops.
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