Watershed

Moving Beyond Marx: A More Complicated Choreography of Truck Driving

When I write about truck driving in the academic world, admittedly, the end results are a little disheartening. I love reading Marx, Fouc...

The Marxist Writer and the Writing Center

“Heather” has been a repeat client, usually coming to work with me on accounting memos in the writing center. The memos she brings are alw...

Femvertising; or, The (Rural) Socialist Feminist Dilemma

On January 13th, Gillette released a commercial that shows off various scenarios of “toxic masculinity” and urges men to step up in these...

Toward a New Materialism: The Domestic Spaces of “We Other Victorians”

The Netflix hit Tidying Up with Marie Kondo has inspired so many people to purge their homes of excess that there has been a noticeable i...

The Feminist Re-Purposing of Fan-Fiction

The other day, one of my students told me I was his coolest teacher. This is funny to me, because I have spent the majority of my life be...

Through Bodies and Language: Watershed takes on Fall 2018

Photo credit: hifructose.com In William Banks's “Written Through the Body: Disruptions and ‘Personal Writing’” he posits that the body is...

Are we all "confident idiots?": Post-Truth Epistemologies

In an article cheekily titled “We are all confident idiots,” David Dunning discusses a series of studies which show that education can le...

Not Yet Outlandish: The Ex-Slave at Sea in the C19

Literary scholar Hester Blum proposes that the sea should become central to critical conversations about global movements, relations, and...

Learning From Our Mothers' Gardens: How to Survive the Trump Administration as a Woman Writer of

This last week, I watched an MSNBC video clip of Abby Phillip leaning out of a crowd of reporters at a press conference to ask Donald Tru...

Who Works?

In 2016, the Seventh Circuit affirmed what a number of courts before them had repeatedly asserted in past: student athletes are not emplo...

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