Auspicion

I add my warm welcome to Laura’s–and share her excitement, writing on this auspicious inauguration day, anticipating the inauguration of these new places/spaces that are our course and its blog: a new collaboration between her, me and all of you; new (we hope) ways and means of thinking about the intersections of technology, gender and ourselves.

Help to get us going, okay? –>log in, and introduce yourself. What are you bringing to this conversation that might be usefully different from other people? What particular questions do you bring, which you hope we’ll explore this semester?

Lessee, about me; you can find out lots on my college home page. Short version: I’m a Quaker in a secular culture; a 4x mom here amongst 20-somethings; a commuter who lives a good deal of the time on a farm in Virginia (when I’m not living in some fictional world or another, which is where I actually spend most of my time). I’m also a feminist literary scholar w/ an abiding interest in what science and technology can teach us about the word and the world…and what literature might teach us about how science and technology make the word/world. I have some very particular questions, to start this semester, about how we use various technologies to “make” gender…