Project updates

With the semester finished, here's an update on some things I'm working on--however slowly that progress may be.

My current big projects (aside from teaching!) in order of progress:

• "42 Reasons for Reading" (number is tentative) -- Still in the draft phase. Two drafts actually. And I'm going to throw them both out and hopefully fashion something together before the new year.
• "Redescribing Shelley's Defense of Poetry: Rorty, Rich, and the Making of a Pragmatist Poetics" (rewrite of my English undergrad thesis) -- Still rewriting. Hopefully some journal will accept it when it's done. *Fingers crossed*
• "An Informed Pedagogy: Connections Between Research and Practice" (tentative) -- My prospective Master's thesis, exploring the possibilities and limitations (but mostly limitations) of education research.
• Mysterious project -- This one needs some 'splaining. I had an interesting idea for a romance novel, a kind of genre study. I have the title, two paragraphs, an outline, and a pseudonym, but I won't incriminate myself further.
• a&b -- Poetry project that's a long ways off.
• "Works of Love" -- Essay on ethics and the concept of unconditional love, with some reference to Works of Love by Kierkegaard and possibly a hint of socialism. No hurry on this one either.

12/24 update:

Two more:

• "If Learning Mattered: A Vision for Higher Education" -- Critique of the bullshit that goes on in colleges and suggestions on how to fix them.
• Out of Darkness (Tentative title) -- An interactive fiction.