[Each
of the last few
years, I’ve made
a number of holiday
wishes to the AmericanStudies
Elves, things I’d love to see happen in the coming year. As you might have
always known, the Elves are really all of us—so let’s work to make these and
other great things happen in 2017! I’d love to hear your wishes, and causes or
individuals or projects I can support as well, in comments!]
Two years ago, I
highlighted
a handful of FSU colleagues as part of my wishes series, both because they
make FSU English Studies exactly the kind of place I’d wish to work, and
because I wish for all the success for their own writing and work. I’d reiterate
those sentiments and wishes here, not least because all of them—Steve Edwards, DeMisty Bellinger-Delfeld,
Elisabet Takehana,
and Heather Urbanski, along with
our online magazine Detour and my former student Harrison Chute’s blog—have
continued to do so much meaningful and inspiring work in the years since.
But we’re a big
department with lots of other great folks too, so here are five more whose work
and voices are well worth your engagement and support:
1)
Kisha
Tracy, whose work with technology
and pedagogy is reflected in this
Guest Post but who is also a hugely talented
medievalist;
2)
Joe Moser,
who likewise has contributed a great
Guest Post and whose upcoming second project on post-World War II films is
one of my most eagerly anticipated scholarly books;
3)
Doris
Schmidt, who has single-handledly kept our
newspaper The Point going and who just retired to pursue vital environmental activist
writing and work out West;
4)
Katy
Covino-Poutasse, one of two new faculty I’ve helped hire in the last two
years, and as dynamic
an educator and scholar
of education and literacy as I’ve known;
5)
And Diego Ubiera,
the other new
faculty member I helped hire, a teacher and advisor who’s become a huge
influence on our students in his first semester, and a Latin
American lit specialist from whom I’ve already learned a great deal.
Special holiday
weekend wish tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Wishes or causes you’d share?
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