What interests us? LOAP wants to know.
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:06 pm
In a Terrestrial thread, LOAP asked what his fellow posters "believed in" and were interested in (outside of Mormonism). I'm not sure that this was a sincere query, or just some round about jab at people being, in his eyes, "unhealthily obsessed" with Mormonism. SatanWasSetUp gave an answer in terms of his religious beliefs and Sethbag gave a quick survery of his extra-curricular interests. Here's my effort to catalog some of the things that take up my time and brain:
I'm a college professor and I teach classes in literature and film that also make use of a great deal of history, art history, cultural theory and philosophy--the usual interdisciplinary mix. I teach a course in detective fiction quite often, as well as a film and lit course, 20thC non-western and gay and lesbian lit. Next semester I’m teaching a course in Nature Literature for the first time and I’m working out the details of that now. If you’re interested you can see examples of my courses (syllabi and at least one assignment) in my board blog, Youthful Harlot’s Curse. Its friends only so you may have to pm me for an invite.
I write at a variety of levels and for a range of publications: scholarly work and articles for mass market magazines and journals on art, music, fashion and asian pop culture. Right now I’m working on an article about a little known bit of Japanese American history (that happened in Utah) and I’m going to offer it to Giant Robot magazine. I’ve not written for them before, but I have written about them (for the Hong Kong based fashion and lifestyle magazine West/East).
In contemporary literature my areas of focus are mostly non US: contemporary British, Japanese and some German lit/history (though with german culture its mostly confined to cultural texts from 30's and 70's). I do have a thing for some contemporary american authors, but its kind of hit and miss. My area of expertise for my doctoral exams was 19th and 20thC British literature and I still read a lot of modernist literature and have a kind of sub-area of expertise in literature of World War I.
I'm also interested in contemporary copyright law; intellectual property is the battleground where the global future is currently being negotiated. Its in this light that I'm interested in the cultural/political/legal issues that surround digital communications technology. While I’ve not published o this topic, I have delivered a number of conference papers on the subject and its relation to education and pedagogy. I have also published on and am cited in the literature of contemporary pedagogical theory.
I spend far more time thinking about and working on art than I do literature, though. I'd like to find a way to change academic disciplines and teach courses more based in art theory. Ideally I suppose I would like to teach at an art and design college. I’m interested in and quite knowledgeable about photography: its history and contemporary work including digital imagery. My other areas of art expertise are conceptual art, minimalism, latin american art and so-called "land art."
Right now I'm doing work in western americana: this is entirely outside of my previous academic/scholarly/intellectual work and that's why its so interesting to me. I like challenge of working up a competency in a new disciplinary field. My current project(s) are also tied to Mormon history, so that’s another reason for my fascination as well as my presence on boards like this. This work is also not unrelated to other projects I want to take up: issues of public monuments, monumental art and public art in general. .
I like design: I'm mid century modern junkie and casually collect Russel Wright and Eva Zeisel. With more money I could feed my Eames jones and get entirely out of control. I used to have a pretty big collection of Bakelite jewelry but I sold it to finance our last shift in residence. I also have a fascination with the history of perfume and for a while was collecting vintage perfume/perfume bottles. I seem to have managed to kick that habit.
I am also deeply fascinated by the art/commerce interface, something which is never more nakedly observable than in the fashion industry. Because I live in NYC and have many friends who work in fashion (designers, retailers, writers, stylists and models) I see a lot of “behind the scenes” scenes: I attend many fashion shows and after parties. My thing is Belgian and Japanese avant garde, but I have a real soft spot for one local boy: Marc Jacobs.
Living in NYC also allows me to indulge in my love of live music: I go to a lot of shows. I used to amateur DJ at a famous art gallery/bar and would love to do more of that. By DJ, I don’t mean I’m on the one and twos: I play off my ipod or CDs and my only draw is my extensive and eclectic mixes.
I like to knit. A sweater of mine was featured in a show of the New Crafts Movement that toured southeast Asia. That sweater has traveled more than I have. I also embroider and sew. I have crocheted and quilted too, but not for centuries.
I adore cooking. Southwest Mex was long my specialty, but I honed my Chinese cooking kung fu under the tutelage of some Hunan roommates and now claim that as a talent. I also love baking: bread, pastry, cakes etc.
I like hiking, camping and poking around in nature. I haven't done much of this while living in the east and I'm dying to do more of it---just one reason I'm going to relocate west in the future. I had a glorious time in Utah recently scrambling over rocks and kicking about in salt water and playing with some wild horses that I’ve visited with over the last few years. I like horseback riding, too.
I've probably left out somethings, and this is all very general, but I hope this satisfies LOAP's inquiring mind somewhat...
Anybody else? I like hearing about other people's lives. That's why I post in online forums like this one.
I'm a college professor and I teach classes in literature and film that also make use of a great deal of history, art history, cultural theory and philosophy--the usual interdisciplinary mix. I teach a course in detective fiction quite often, as well as a film and lit course, 20thC non-western and gay and lesbian lit. Next semester I’m teaching a course in Nature Literature for the first time and I’m working out the details of that now. If you’re interested you can see examples of my courses (syllabi and at least one assignment) in my board blog, Youthful Harlot’s Curse. Its friends only so you may have to pm me for an invite.
I write at a variety of levels and for a range of publications: scholarly work and articles for mass market magazines and journals on art, music, fashion and asian pop culture. Right now I’m working on an article about a little known bit of Japanese American history (that happened in Utah) and I’m going to offer it to Giant Robot magazine. I’ve not written for them before, but I have written about them (for the Hong Kong based fashion and lifestyle magazine West/East).
In contemporary literature my areas of focus are mostly non US: contemporary British, Japanese and some German lit/history (though with german culture its mostly confined to cultural texts from 30's and 70's). I do have a thing for some contemporary american authors, but its kind of hit and miss. My area of expertise for my doctoral exams was 19th and 20thC British literature and I still read a lot of modernist literature and have a kind of sub-area of expertise in literature of World War I.
I'm also interested in contemporary copyright law; intellectual property is the battleground where the global future is currently being negotiated. Its in this light that I'm interested in the cultural/political/legal issues that surround digital communications technology. While I’ve not published o this topic, I have delivered a number of conference papers on the subject and its relation to education and pedagogy. I have also published on and am cited in the literature of contemporary pedagogical theory.
I spend far more time thinking about and working on art than I do literature, though. I'd like to find a way to change academic disciplines and teach courses more based in art theory. Ideally I suppose I would like to teach at an art and design college. I’m interested in and quite knowledgeable about photography: its history and contemporary work including digital imagery. My other areas of art expertise are conceptual art, minimalism, latin american art and so-called "land art."
Right now I'm doing work in western americana: this is entirely outside of my previous academic/scholarly/intellectual work and that's why its so interesting to me. I like challenge of working up a competency in a new disciplinary field. My current project(s) are also tied to Mormon history, so that’s another reason for my fascination as well as my presence on boards like this. This work is also not unrelated to other projects I want to take up: issues of public monuments, monumental art and public art in general. .
I like design: I'm mid century modern junkie and casually collect Russel Wright and Eva Zeisel. With more money I could feed my Eames jones and get entirely out of control. I used to have a pretty big collection of Bakelite jewelry but I sold it to finance our last shift in residence. I also have a fascination with the history of perfume and for a while was collecting vintage perfume/perfume bottles. I seem to have managed to kick that habit.
I am also deeply fascinated by the art/commerce interface, something which is never more nakedly observable than in the fashion industry. Because I live in NYC and have many friends who work in fashion (designers, retailers, writers, stylists and models) I see a lot of “behind the scenes” scenes: I attend many fashion shows and after parties. My thing is Belgian and Japanese avant garde, but I have a real soft spot for one local boy: Marc Jacobs.
Living in NYC also allows me to indulge in my love of live music: I go to a lot of shows. I used to amateur DJ at a famous art gallery/bar and would love to do more of that. By DJ, I don’t mean I’m on the one and twos: I play off my ipod or CDs and my only draw is my extensive and eclectic mixes.
I like to knit. A sweater of mine was featured in a show of the New Crafts Movement that toured southeast Asia. That sweater has traveled more than I have. I also embroider and sew. I have crocheted and quilted too, but not for centuries.
I adore cooking. Southwest Mex was long my specialty, but I honed my Chinese cooking kung fu under the tutelage of some Hunan roommates and now claim that as a talent. I also love baking: bread, pastry, cakes etc.
I like hiking, camping and poking around in nature. I haven't done much of this while living in the east and I'm dying to do more of it---just one reason I'm going to relocate west in the future. I had a glorious time in Utah recently scrambling over rocks and kicking about in salt water and playing with some wild horses that I’ve visited with over the last few years. I like horseback riding, too.
I've probably left out somethings, and this is all very general, but I hope this satisfies LOAP's inquiring mind somewhat...
Anybody else? I like hearing about other people's lives. That's why I post in online forums like this one.