Placing the Academy Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity / edited by Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman. [print]

Includes bibliographical references.

Writing place/ Jennifer Sinor-- -- Six kinds of rain: searching for a place in the academy/ Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore-- -- The work the landscape calls us to/ Michael Sowder-- -- Valley language/ Diana Garcia-- -- What I learned from the campus plumber/ Charles Bergman-- -- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter/ Katherine Fischer-- -- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college/ Seán W. Henne-- -- Levittown breeds anarchists! film at 11/ Kathryn T. Flannery-- -- Living in a transformed desert/ Mitsuye Yamada-- -- A more fortunate destiny/ Jayne Brim Box-- -- Imagined Vietnams/ Charles Waugh-- -- Teaching on stolen ground/ Deborah A. Miranda-- -- The blind teaching the blind: the academic as naturalist, or not/ Robert Michael Pyle-- -- Where are you from? / Lee Torda-- -- Going away to think/ Scott Slovic-- -- Fronteriza consciousness: the site and language of the academy and of life/ Norma Elia Cantú-- -- Bones of summer/ Mary Clearman Blew-- -- Singing, speaking, and seeing a world/ Janice M. Gould-- -- Making places work: felt sense, identity, and teaching/ Jeffrey M. Buchanan-- -- Running in place: the personal at work, in motion, on campus, and in the neighborhood/ Rona Kaufman.