So, as of this instant, I'm designing an almost paperless course for First Year Composition based on Cultural LIteracy. I'm also winding my way (wending?) through literary criticism on the X-Men for a project in the realm of Transnational Rhetoric. This idea of looking at our own world critically (or being able to at least) is what it seems I've always wanted to do. It's where I've hinted at in prior courses that I've taught, but I've never been ... gutsy? enough to attempt it in courses I was taking, or projects I wanted to finish for real live "grades".
I really thought Cultur(al) Studies had sort've been done, and that no one gave a damn any more. Was I wrong? Where did such an idea come from? At any rate. I'm thinking I'll declare it as my secondary area for the PhD. Is it a "real" area?
It is if I say it is.
Oh, and my initial line for the X-Men paper? "Does it matter that Magneto's a Jew? Of COURSE it DOES.
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