Comments on: Conversion Narratives http://mitchmcg.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/conversion-narratives/ Instincts are misleading: You shouldn't think what you're feeling. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Mary http://mitchmcg.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/conversion-narratives/#comment-101 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:09:55 +0100 http://mitchmcg.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/conversion-narratives/#comment-101 I think you said it when you mentioned that rhet/comp allows people to combine all their interests, however seemingly disparate. You (from those you have shared with me) have so many different interests that it doesn't surprise me you are drawn to R/C. I knew you'd come over to our side one day! :) I think you said it when you mentioned that rhet/comp allows people to combine all their interests, however seemingly disparate. You (from those you have shared with me) have so many different interests that it doesn’t surprise me you are drawn to R/C.

I knew you’d come over to our side one day! :)

]]> by: Administrator http://mitchmcg.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/conversion-narratives/#comment-100 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:37:56 +0100 http://mitchmcg.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/conversion-narratives/#comment-100 John, I find it interesting that many colleagues in rhetcomp began (as I mention here) in lit studies--particularly in medieval lit scholarship as you indicate. At C&W, I was chatting with a colleague (I don't remember who or from what institution--it was on Sunday and my brain was just fried) who was just moving into comp studies from a medieval lit background too. Our chat focused precisely on what you allude to here, that both medieval lit and our own contemporary era encompass moments in which writing & literate practice is in flux and I think that might be what draws a lot of medievalists into rhet-comp. But what accounts for me? John,

I find it interesting that many colleagues in rhetcomp began (as I mention here) in lit studies–particularly in medieval lit scholarship as you indicate. At C&W, I was chatting with a colleague (I don’t remember who or from what institution–it was on Sunday and my brain was just fried) who was just moving into comp studies from a medieval lit background too. Our chat focused precisely on what you allude to here, that both medieval lit and our own contemporary era encompass moments in which writing & literate practice is in flux and I think that might be what draws a lot of medievalists into rhet-comp.

But what accounts for me?

]]> by: John http://mitchmcg.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/conversion-narratives/#comment-99 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:25:25 +0100 http://mitchmcg.blogsome.com/2007/06/26/conversion-narratives/#comment-99 Already grooving to orality-literacy studies which was so fruitful for understanding the oral-chirographic transitional culture of Anglo-Saxon England while at the same time recognizing that computers were going to play an important role in the humanities (this is back in 1994), I was introduced to Ong's work. And then, some years later, in the in the teaching writing class required of all TAs in the English Department at Saint Louis University, I was introduced to Ong as a rhetorician. Orality-literacy studies (and a desire to understand what I was doing when I was teaching writing) lead me to become the technorhetorican-medievalist hybrid I am today. Already grooving to orality-literacy studies which was so fruitful for understanding the oral-chirographic transitional culture of Anglo-Saxon England while at the same time recognizing that computers were going to play an important role in the humanities (this is back in 1994), I was introduced to Ong’s work. And then, some years later, in the in the teaching writing class required of all TAs in the English Department at Saint Louis University, I was introduced to Ong as a rhetorician. Orality-literacy studies (and a desire to understand what I was doing when I was teaching writing) lead me to become the technorhetorican-medievalist hybrid I am today.

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