Hello & Welcome. This site is one that has been in the making for a couple of years now and hit a major stalling point during 2020, when the pandemic threw everything up in the air. Before that, I was planning for this site to be a place where I chronicled my comprehensive exam process as I was trudging through. However, that changed when I realized that I could post resources here for folks that may want to do so similar research on creative writing or even the lyric essay (my absolute true love), but don’t know where to start. So, what I am undertaking now is a sort of merging of those two purposes.
How to use this site
The posts on this site will give short overviews of texts, most of which are readily available for rent through libraries and for purchase through press sites or your favorite bookstore, and will include a short pairings section. The pairings section is intended both for instructors & for students. There I have listed other texts that could be a helpful pairing to read with the original text. Sometimes, these pairings are updates on the texts (think: an author has published a new introduction, returning to a previous argument), texts that share the same theme of the original text, or which may offer new perspectives when read with the original text.
Lyric Essay
Because the lyric essay is one of my main research “anchors” around which my other interests tend to revolve, I have separated all posts that deal with the lyric essay into a separate category that you can easily access at the top of the site.
Thoughts
More musings from me!
Contact
I’m very happy to hear from you and can be reached via the Contact page.
Thanks
I would like to thank the University of Missouri English Department’s Alumni Award, which helped to fund this site.
All of the information presented on this site are the work and opinions of my own and do not represent any opinions of the University of Missouri.
Compsing 