We now have a website.
“Challenging Faith: Intersections of Belief and Doubt in Literature,
Composition, and the Profession”
A graduate conference hosted by the University of New Hampshire English Graduate Organization
March 7-8, 2008 • University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, US
Keynote speakers:
Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross
Sharon O’Dair, University of Alabama
and a reading by Meredith Hall, University [...]

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From the local media comes this story:
High School T-Shirts Cause Controversy
“.08: Pushing the Limit”
This is about as dangerous as it gets in Durham, so I’m guessing that it’ll play out for awhile in the news. What’s sad is that it’s actually a pretty good senior slogan–a much better play on words than most slogans. Too [...]

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Dr. B makes a good point: in all the Don Imus hoopla, why has the coverage seemed so uninterested in talking about sexism? I mean, he did call a group of women (of various races) “hos.”
But considering the reductive way in which we talk about racism and sexism (after all, we focus on Imus when [...]

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Gosh, this list is as old as the hills. I got it in an email probably around 1997ish. But it’s worth revisiting. Some of my faves:

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
11. From the attic [...]

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What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those [...]

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