Statement of purpose

As a group, we are specifically interested in thinking about the following issues:

1) How do we as instructors operate under the aegis of the university and yet think of moving beyond the socially constructed understandings of this space?

2) What are some of the institutional boundaries of the writing classroom and what would a meaningful/politically productive transgression of these boundaries look like?

3)Can one conceive of a current divide in literature between a "traditional" humanities curriculum and a more techno-scientific one? And if the former has been expropriated by the latter, as thinkers such as John Guillory and Peggy Kamuf seem to suggest, how is it that progressive teachers might "take back" a humanities curriculum, in Guillory's terms?

4) How does technology, productively or adversely, affect pedagogy?

5) In what ways do we image or frame a performative understanding of pedagogy, and how do we mobilize those various underderstandings in our practices?

6) What are the various and complex ideological issues surrounding questions of nation, race, sexuality, gender, and class that inform pedagogical spaces? In other words, what are some of the political and cultural conflicts that are produced in the fray of the institutionalization of knowledge?"

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