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If you are due to have your paper workshopped, you need to place it in the Dropbox…now.  Overdue!

On May 5th, we will be joining Professor Tougaw’s class for “Anthology Day:” Room 6496 from 6:30p, – 8:30pm.    

Workshop is beginning!  I see three drafts in the dropbox–expecting the fourth this morning at the latest. By Monday afternoon or evening, everyone needs to have written a brief response to the draft.  It does not have to be long–maybe a page or slightly less than a page.  You do not have to write full […]

While you are reading the interviews with Heti, you can listen to this Heti-inspired song. (I also recommend you check out this entire album. It is great.)     Sarah

I mentioned in class last night an interview where Sheila Heti talks about the differences in the Canadian and U.S. editions of How Should a Person Be?  It was published in The Millions back in 2012, which is right around when the book came out in the United States.  I think it sheds an interesting light […]

The following is an excerpt from the anthology “Should I Go to Grad School: An Interview with Sheila Heti. This was published by Bloomsbury on May 5, 2014. http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/should-i-go-to-grad-school-an-interview-with-sheila-heti Shirley  

Here is the schedule for our draft workshops: April 21st workshop [Draft or portion of the draft must be in the dropbox by April 15th] Adam Watson Sarah Cohn Zoë Simpson Lisa Rodriguez   April 28th workshop [Draft or portion of the draft must be in the dropbox by April 22nd] Maple Wu Mattheus Oliveira […]

Life Writing through Blogging by Adolescents By: Shirley P. Grant For my research paper, I would like to look at life writing through personal blogging. My primary research will focus on a blog by a teenager that is written in the form of a personal diary. The blog is called, “The Life of a Troubled […]

While on a deep research dive for my paper, I came across “Say Everything” an article by Emily Nussbaum in New York Magazine from 2007 that looks at oversharing as generational rebellion on par with the advent of rock n’ roll. She writes, “It’s been a long time since there was a true generation gap, […]

Sheila Heti, in the introduction writes, “In this way, I should be satisfied with being famous to three or four of my friends. And yet it’s an illusion. They like me for who I am, and I would rather be liked for who I appear to be, and for who I appear to be, to […]

1) On page 77, the following conversation occurs between Israel and Sheila Heti: SHEILA HETI: “He disagreed with me when I said you can love anyone.” ISRAEL: “No you can’t,” he said.  “It matters – the person you’re with.” Do you think the following conversation signifies that Sheila and Israel value status over love?  In […]

After changing my topic for the final paper about a billion times, I think I finally made the final change…   In today’s society there are multiple avenues of social media that enter a social media user’s daily activities. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tinder, Grinder, Blogs, Flicker, and even LinkedIn are all considered popular outlets […]

Is Facebook really optional? According to a Washington Post article from Oct 1014, Facebook had reached 1.35 billion active users per month. That means that 20% percent of the worlds population logs on to Facebook once a month. That’s half of the worlds internet users. Given the growing ubiquity of the platform one can make […]

”I’m very open about my learning disability and I get the help I need at school, but out in the day to day world of living people don’t know I’m dyslexic unless I say something, and then I have this moment where I feel like I’m either making an excuse or over sharing.” – Erica […]

Continuing from our 3/31 discussion, I’ve uploaded 2 consecutive chapters (1 pdf) from Michael Warner’s The Trouble With Normal. These chapters reflect on the culture of shame surrounding America’s discussion of sex and sexuality, particularly in political spheres regarding queer groups (although not exclusively). Although he clearly doesn’t discuss over-sharing, he is very concerned with […]