Transitions

First off, I'd like to thank Zach for his summer post, sharing his awesome music and saying some truths about the way the class was supposed to function--as a dialogue between students on a certain subject, in our case, media representations of violence, that fosters more than just writing good thesis sentences, that can foster relationships built around ideas and art. I also miss our class and the writings it produced, especially an excellent piece of fanfic and some killer final essays...

The semester starts anew next week, and this blog will once again be in service, perhaps as a foil to the testosterone-heavy Violence course last Spring. The course is called One Girl in All the World: Superheroines and Gendered Violence, and in addition to "gossiping" about Buffy, we will be reading lots of comics featuring women kicking ass. The students of ENGL1105.106 will be using this blog for weekly postings and extra-curricular dialogue.

I welcome the participants of this blog from the spring semester to join the discussions for this coming semester as much as you like. There's a chance another class will join in as well, which could be a really good chance to share ideas, critique each other, and really get the Cornell knowledge machine started on the subjects of pop culture, violence, and gender.