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A Student of English: May 2013
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Monday, May 20, 2013. Accidental Sexists, Latent Misogynists. This is going to be very unscientific. But you know what? That's what essays are. Unscientific "tries" (from the French essai. Accidental Sexists and Latent Misogynists, as I'll call them, are two different things. Feminist man looks like. O...
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A Student of English: June 2013
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Monday, June 10, 2013. On Februrary 27, 2013, my Grandma Byrd went home. She was, as the obit reads in true obit form, surrounded by friends and family, and at home at her daughter's house where she'd been living for a couple of months. Until then she had always lived on her own. Some forty years after she...
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A Student of English: November 2013
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Saturday, November 2, 2013. I'm easily annoyed at words that stick together in catchy appellations, and even more annoyed when those phrases start appearing on advertisements, signage, train platforms, yogurt lids.etc. Is the latest verbiage on my shit list (as in, shit you shouldn't say). But why, Byrd?
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A Student of English: Call for Papers
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Friday, December 20, 2013. This year I'm co-chairing the committee to organize Northern Illinois University's annual English Department Conference. We call it the Midwest Conference of Literature, Language, and Media: MCLLM. If you're an old hand. submit anyway! Is the question we asked ourselves. This...
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A Student of English: "Be Safe!"
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Saturday, November 2, 2013. I'm easily annoyed at words that stick together in catchy appellations, and even more annoyed when those phrases start appearing on advertisements, signage, train platforms, yogurt lids.etc. Is the latest verbiage on my shit list (as in, shit you shouldn't say). But why, Byrd?
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A Student of English: February 2013
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Friday, February 1, 2013. In AD 449 three ships landed at Kent, in the southeast of Britannia, and those who rowed the ships eventually took hold of most of that island. In AD 2012, those sea raiders took hold of my mind. I'm bringin' Saxon back. (Yeah! One disappointment of the history of English class wa...
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A Student of English: Mom Byrd
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Monday, June 10, 2013. On Februrary 27, 2013, my Grandma Byrd went home. She was, as the obit reads in true obit form, surrounded by friends and family, and at home at her daughter's house where she'd been living for a couple of months. Until then she had always lived on her own. Some forty years after she...
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A Student of English: January 2014
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Wednesday, January 8, 2014. Your oils do not tempt me. Welcome to our "home." We've made it as uncomfortable as possible so you won't stay too long! I live in the suburbs. Not just any suburbs, but possibly some of the most vanilla, mildly affluent, tasteless suburbs in the country. I am not proud. All ove...
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A Student of English: December 2013
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Friday, December 20, 2013. This year I'm co-chairing the committee to organize Northern Illinois University's annual English Department Conference. We call it the Midwest Conference of Literature, Language, and Media: MCLLM. If you're an old hand. submit anyway! Is the question we asked ourselves. This...
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A Student of English: Accidental Sexists, Latent Misogynists
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A Student of English. A testing ground for critical efforts, a sharing place for literary discoveries, and a never-ending notepad for thoughts on being a student, writer, woman, and teacher of English. Monday, May 20, 2013. Accidental Sexists, Latent Misogynists. This is going to be very unscientific. But you know what? That's what essays are. Unscientific "tries" (from the French essai. Accidental Sexists and Latent Misogynists, as I'll call them, are two different things. Feminist man looks like. O...
