Tag Archives: Foucault

“You must change your life”

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Ian Cornelius

[In this latest iteration of my composition seminar, I adopted an innovative capstone writing exercise from Daniel Jump: students each wrote an academic review of a classmate’s research essay, and had their own essay reviewed in turn. I bundled the … Continue reading →

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Medieval Governmentalities

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Ian Cornelius

[cfp for a roundtable session I am organizing at the 2014 Congress of the New Chaucer Society, to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland.] Medieval Governmentalities How does an intention to govern become realized within different scales and contexts of community? … Continue reading →

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Foucault at Kalamazoo

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Ian Cornelius

[What follows is a version of the framing statement I presented at the session “The History of Ethics: Continuations of Foucault’s Final Project,” held on 11 May 2013 at Kalamazoo. Inspiration for this session came from Claire Waters’s paper, “Giving … Continue reading →

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Ways of Living: ENGL 114 S13

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Ian Cornelius

In this writing seminar, we study how and why human beings come to be concerned with their own ways of living. What prompts a “way of life” to emerge as a problem for people who live in that way? In the name of what, and by … Continue reading →

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