Housekeeping

Despite not having enough free time to post, I have updated and fussed with the site these past two weeks.  Because some of these changes are small, or only noticeable to me, I’m going to list the “behind the scenes” work that has occupied my time.

Blog Blurb:
I met with Dr. Logan last week to talk about my paper proposal and I brought up my uneasiness of using Queer Theory when I still knew next to nothing about it other than the concepts of the female homosocial and lesbian continuum.  That’s when Dr. Logan reminded me that Adrienne Rich is not a Queer theorist but a feminist theorist, and she suggested that I use feminist theory informed by these two concepts.  I can’t tell you how relieved I felt and happy that I was indeed on the right track for my paper.  To reflect this refocus, I’ve updated my blog blurb.    


Old: 
This blog is part of my current research project for Dr. Lisa Logan's "Issues in Literary Study: Unruly Women in Early American Literature" course at the University of Central Florida, Fall 2010 semester. Research will focus on Milcah Martha Moore's Book, an unpublished commonplace book, through the lens of Queer Theory, specifically the ideas of the female homosocial and lesbian continuum.


New:
This blog is part of my current research project for Dr. Lisa Logan's "Issues in Literary Study: Unruly Women in Early American Literature" course at the University of Central Florida, Fall 2010 semester.  Research will focus on Milcah Martha Moore’s Book, an unpublished commonplace book, through the lens of Feminist Theory informed by the female homosocial and lesbian continuum. 


Static Pages:
GoogleBooks:
I decided to embed more books than just Milcah Martha Moore’s Book and Memory’s Daughters, so I erased the whole thing and started from scratch.  I wanted to give my readers the ability to read the same source material as myself without having to make the trek to a library and/or bookstore.  There are now two sections: embedded books from GoogleBooks, and links to the books on GoogleBooks.


Embedded:
A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf, Civil Tongues & Polite Letters in British America, Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book, Liberty’s Daughters: the Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750—1800, Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America, Milcah Martha Moore’s Book, On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage: The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson and the Gendering of Power in the Eighteenth Century, Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500—1800, Revolution and the Word: the Rise of the Novel in America, and The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America.


Links:
There are 25 books listed, some of which are specific chapters within a book.


My Digital Self:
I added this page so my readers will know more about me, both in terms of personality and education/scholarship.  Playing off the theme of a digital self, I “tagged” myself with terms that best describe me.  It is my hope that my readers and classmates will play along and tag themselves in the comment box at the bottom of the page.  I also added the contents of my CV, which needs to be re-arranged in proper descending chronological order (thanks Jessica for the tip!).  

Links:
I changed the order in which the link categories appear on the sidebar.  


Old: 
Research Portfolio Components, Specific to MMMB, Early American Literature, Queer Theory & Such, Feminist Theory & Such, Digital Humanities, Intersection of Personal and Academic Identities, Research & Blogging Tools, Pleasurable Distractions, and LIT6216 Blogs.


New: 
Research Portfolio Components, Specific to MMMB, Early American Literature, Feminist Theory & Such, Intersection of Personal and Academic Identities, Digital Humanities, Research & Blogging Tools, Queer Theory & Such, Pleasurable Distractions, and LIT6216 Blogs.


Feminist Theory & Such:
Moved Adrienne Rich links to Feminist Theory & Such after conversation with Dr. Logan confirmed that Rich is a feminist, not a queer theory proponent. 


Added links to: A Celebration of Women Writers, Broadsheet (Salon), Bitch Magazine, and Feministing.


Intersection of Personal and Academic Identities:
Added category Intersection of Personal and Academic Identities because the Digital Humanities section could not accommodate the scholarly blogs I wanted to add.  Some of links were already present in other categories, so I moved them here (Cat in the Stack, Bitch Ph.D., and Tenured Radical).


Added links to: Archive Fever, Confessions of a Community College Dean, Dan Cohen, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Kate Bornstein’s Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, Lesboprof, Reassigned Time 2.0, University Diaries, and WOMEN = BOOKS Blog.  


It should be noted that this link list is by no means exhaustive, nor is it mean to be.  Most of these links I yanked from the link lists of Tenured Radical, Bitch Ph.D., and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities because I thought they looked interesting.  I encourage you to do some exploring of your own, although be careful, it can become addicting.


Digital Humanities:
Added links to: 21st Century Literacies, Digital Media and Learning Competition, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Proposed Master’s in Knowledge and Networks, Publishing Perspectives, and The Institute for the Future of the Book. 


Queer Theory & Such:
I am leaving the Queer Theory & Such category up because I find the links useful, even if my project is veering away from Queer theory. 


Added links to: GLAAD, GLSEN, LGBT Philosophy Site Index, and The Advocate.

And remember, if you have a link/site you want to recommend, just leave a comment.  While most of the links came from my previous project and classes, word of mouth from classmates, friends, and Dr. Logan informed me about Jezebel, Archive Fever, Internet Archive (Archive.org), Bitch Ph.D., and Tenured Radical, just to name a few.