oh this is so apropros to an #mla25 panel at this morning about the cost of reading and what qualifies as "reading" - absolutely, a budget is a form of writing and reading, especially with external funders
(Sorry to jump into your thread!)
#s458
thecostofreading.mla.hcommons.org
me: especially Jené Schoenfeld work in re-framing a syllabus = form of intimacy & trust (bw faculty/student in collaborating on intellectual idea of constructing a syllabus; in faculty thinking abt teaching that syllabus).
Brings me back to: pedagogical materials as research
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my q: can we reframe this as intimacy and vulnerability, even in policy creation, CFPs -- all of the ppl behind the writing requires our generosity between each other in a way that's not competitive (I'm mashing my q & the panelists' responses)
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RA (in running a Center for Humanities):
-process of authoring a good CFP
-rdg the Center's website back to ppl to work thru queries
-creating a writing grp that is effective (requires care); post-pandemic, ppl are ready to get back to these in order to produce
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Rachel Artega Q: How do the reading practices of funders contribute to the development and standards of quality of humanities scholarship?
-genre rdg most = emails! an intimate practice bc abt ppl's aspirations, material needs, eligibility all w/i humanities
-rdg own website & CFPs
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@kfitz.info articulates the bane of my existence w/administrative reading about lack of crosswalks bw internal platforms for submitting internal requests.
KF: The friction is way too limiting (but friction isn't a terrible thing). What happens to thinking in process of admin reading?
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@kfitz.info on leadership & reading #s458 #mla25
-in institutional leadership, how to create opportunities for deep rdg
-internally, administrative text is overwhelmingly the type of rdg that leadership does = the proposal & assessing the proposal (by e/o for any type of internal initiative)
Sam Cohen on the cost of reviewing/editing/reading:
-generous mentoring uplifts individuals that will shape fields in small ways
-acting as reader lifts the field in small ways
-rdg other's works = foundational to our own freedom to teach
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up early (for PST) #mla25 #s458 The Cost of Reading
See the discussion questions for this roundtable: thecostofreading.mla.hcommons.org
Understanding the "cost" in so many ways & for various constituencies.
Jené Schoenfeld: walking us thru trigger warnings & how students helped shift/keep rdgs
