PMA 1184

FWS: Writing Our Minoritarian Selves in(to) the Academy

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In high school, I wasn’t allowed to use “I” in an essay. But now that I’m in university, “I argue” or “We observe” or something similar is in almost every article or book I’ve been assigned. When or how did “I” enter into an academic argument? When did or how do “I” enter into the university? For those of us who have entered into major spaces from backgrounds considered minor, our class seeks to critically understand the ways minoritarian people have and will make space in academia. Through exercises in “personalized” writing genre like performance reviews and conducting interviews, this course finds meanings in scholarly relations to people, texts, events, and performances through theoretical frameworks and turns these findings into cogent arguments.

Writing and Languages (FWS)

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