English Department Calendar
Monday, October 26th
- Location: Grise Hall 3rd floor
- Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Writing, accountability, and community time for grads and faculty.
Wednesday, October 28th
- Location: HCIC multipurpose room
- Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Please join us for the Gender & Women's Studies annual Genderations Lecture, where we showcase local feminist scholarship and community engagement.
Abstract:
Small Is All: Fractal Patterns: of Feminisms and Rhetorics
Picture a fern: The tiny curled end unfurling from the larger pattern of its fronds is a fractal—a pattern that is the same at every scale. How do we make big change in the world when we often feel small and vulnerable? Through fractals, Dr. Jessi Thomsen
(English) opens a conversation about the small ways we use language and feminisms to contribute to patterns of surviving and thriving. Our collective engagement in feminist rhetorical action scales up to big changes, reaching far beyond us. Small is all.
Jessi Thomsen, PhD, is a teacher-scholar-mentor and an assistant professor of professional writing at WKU. She is curious about the entanglements of
rhetoric and writing with our more-than-human world. Her pups—Janeway and Tendi—supervise her work.
Friday, October 30th
- Location: Zoom
- Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
The saying “academia is like a pie eating contest where the prize is more pie” feels like my Friday, every Friday. This Zoom time is open to grads and faculty, and you are welcome to drop in any time you want to check some tasks off your list before the weekend—get your emails out of the way, do a little bit of writing, tidy up some grading. It’s a nice way to “body-double” for accountability. We do a quick check in on what folks are working on, focus for an hour, and check in before signing off for the weekend. I’ll send out the Zoom link for this co-working time on Friday mornings.
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