Tag Archives: Barthes

Blurry Resolutions: Writing in the New Year

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Jessica Yood

My new year begins with a commitment to focus on the primary subject of my book: the near past. Reunion: The Role of English Departments in Reshaping Writing is about how English departments influenced epistemological and cultural change in the 1990s and … Continue reading →

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The Company of Categories

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Jessica Yood

This blog began as a chronicle of my near midlife career. For me, and maybe others at a crossroad, I hoped it could sound a weekly alarm in prose: “write or wrestle with regret.” “Alarm” signals immediate need, even emergency.  … Continue reading →

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