Placing the Academy [electronic resource] : Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity / edited by Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Writing place / Jennifer Sinor -- Six kinds of rain: searching for a place in the academy / Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore -- The work the landscape calls us to / Michael Sowder -- Valley language / Diana Garcia -- What I learned from the campus plumber / Charles Bergman -- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter / Katherine Fischer -- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college / Seán W. Henne -- Levittown breeds anarchists! film at 11 / Kathryn T. Flannery -- Living in a transformed desert / Mitsuye Yamada -- A more fortunate destiny / Jayne Brim Box -- Imagined Vietnams / Charles Waugh -- Teaching on stolen ground / Deborah A. Miranda -- The blind teaching the blind: the academic as naturalist, or not / Robert Michael Pyle -- Where are you from? / Lee Torda -- Going away to think / Scott Slovic -- Fronteriza consciousness: the site and language of the academy and of life / Norma Elia Cantú -- Bones of summer / Mary Clearman Blew -- Singing, speaking, and seeing a world / Janice M. Gould -- Making places work: felt sense, identity, and teaching / Jeffrey M. Buchanan -- Running in place: the personal at work, in motion, on campus, and in the neighborhood / Rona Kaufman.

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