Introduction

[scott wilkerson]

Friends,


Thank you for all these excellent references and remarks.

Respectfully,

Scott



Scott Wilkerson
Humanities Assistant Professor
Humanities Coordinator
Georgia Military College
Columbus, Georgia
Research Associate,
Halawaukee Studio for the Arts





>From: "Penrod, Diane" <Penrod at ROWAN.EDU>
>Reply-To: The Discourse Studies List <DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
>To: DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: Introduction
>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:20:14 -0400
>
>Scott,
>
>My dissertation in 1994 explored similar connections in American essays 
>written after 1965 with contemporary architecture. You can look up my diss 
>through Dissertation Abstracts at U Michigan. It's registered.
>
>I'm just now getting back to this topic in my own research program, so I 
>hope some of my suggestions will help you as well. I have a book chapter 
>coming out next year discussing how architecture influences the writing 
>process. People seem quite interested these days in architectonics -- 
>certainly more now than in 1994.
>
>Here's the best advice I can offer:
>
>You'll probably do better looking at materials drawn from architecture. My 
>first suggestion is to look at Jencks' The Language of Architecture. You 
>might also want to look at Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Learning 
>from Las Vegas.
>
>Yi-Fu Tuan's set of works may also be helpful to you. He is/was a 
>geographer, but had a great understanding of the sense of place and its 
>affect on people. Gaston Bachelard's book (title escapes me and it's at my 
>campus office) might also be of some help. So too might Gerard Genette's 
>work.
>
>>From there, you'll find references listed that will direct your focus.
>
>Good luck with your dissertation. I'm glad to see the relationships between 
>architecture and language are finally being explored in greater depth.
>
>Best,
>
>Diane
>
>Diane Penrod, PhD
>Professor, Writing Arts
>Site Director, National Writing Project at Rowan University
>Graduate Program Advisor, MA in Writing
>Rowan University
>Glassboro NJ 08028
>penrod at rowan.edu
>856-256-4330
>
>"Leap and the net will appear."
>              -- Zen proverb
>
>"Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult..."
>            -- Anonymous student evaluation
>
>________________________________
>
>From: TheDiscourseStudiesList on behalf of scott wilkerson
>Sent: Sat 7/8/2006 7:07 PM
>To: DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>Subject: Re: Introduction
>
>
>
>Hello Friends,
>
>
>My name is Scott Wilkerson, and I am an Assistant Professor of English in
>the Department of  Humanities at the Columbus campus of Georgia Military
>College. I am writing my dissertation on certain open questions in Charles
>Olson's poetics of spatial architectonics. I am interested in the
>logological space of language and the relationship between spatial grammar
>and the structures of representation. I eagerly anticipate forming some 
>good
>scholarly relationships here, and I expect I shall also learn quite a lot
>from the great minds here assembled.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>Scott Wilkerson
>Humanities Assistant Professor
>Humanities Coordinator
>Georgia Military College
>Columbus, Georgia
>Research Associate,
>Halawaukee Studio for the Arts
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Ian Roderick <iroderick at WLU.CA>
> >Reply-To: The Discourse Studies List <DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> >To: DISCOURS at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> >Subject: Introduction
> >Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:51:55 -0400
> >
> >Dear list members,
> >
> >My name is Ian Roderick and I am an assistant professor in the
> >Communication Studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University in 
>Waterloo,
> >Ontario, Canada.
> >
> >I became quite interested in CDA and social semiotics during my MA 
>studies
> >but slipped away from it while writing my doctoral dissertation. I have
> >recently come to find myself interested in returning to a more systemic
> >form of discourse analysis in my own research. Presently I am interested 
>in
> >representations of autonomous technologies (robotics, UAVs, intelligent
> >agents, etc.) particularly in a military context but I also have a strong
> >interest in public space and exhibitionary spaces, in particular. I also
> >hang out on the Language of New Capitalism list.
> >
> >As well as an introductory course on mass communication and another in
> >print communication, I teach a course entitled The Cultural Political
> >Economy of the Theme Park and another I call The Operating System of War.
> >
> >I expect that this is a quiet time for the list but I hope to contribute
> >when and where I can.
> >
> >best regards,
> >
> >Ian Roderick
>
>