I’m going to start putting out posts that are segments of my scholarly work from the past twenty years or so, including even a few snippets from undergrad papers. It occurs to me that one result of the pace of life I’ve lived, and the number of places I’ve been, is that almost no one in my everyday life has any significant exposure to what I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to study, learn, and teach. When I sketch in what has changed in my thinking, or try to explain my hesitation about someone else’s approach to an idea or situation, I have noticed that I often find myself ransacking the loose ends of two decades of thought looking for a thread to pull–but that is why I have written, and why I write. To create a record.
So I’ll put these out there, and I’ll make one of my rare uses of the “Tag” feature on the blog to mark these as Past Scholarship. Where possible, I’ll link to resources or major sources of research (I apologize that documentation may be incomplete in some cases, particularly where I gave a talk and may not have written a proper Works Cited page–nothing that could not be firmed up for publication in a more formal setting). I hope you’ll enjoy–and criticize.
