Welcome
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of English Language and Literature at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO, where I serve as a Rhetoric and Composition scholar and teacher. My scholarship, which is informed by Foucault’s work on the care of the self, has been focused primarily on the practices of self writing in Montaigne’s essays. I am most recently working on a book project on imitation practices in writing, which is ultimately forcing my work out of its comfort zone (a space in which I have grappled with issues relevant to the personal essay) and into larger pedagogical and disciplinary concerns. My work on subjectivity and imitation also informs my teaching, as I continue to struggle to discover the most useful and effective ways of assisting students in engaging with difficult, dense material and in generating complex, rigorous writings of their own.
“The work of an intellectual is not to mold the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).” –Foucault