Monday, July 1, 2013

Introductions are in order.....

Hello to those of you who have found your way to this blog.

My name is Maxwell Philbrook and I'd like to welcome you to my blog. I'm a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition in the English Department here at Mizzou. I study the movement of texts in an increasingly global world, and I am especially interested in how arguments about food circulate transnationally. I received a MA from the University of Minnesota Duluth and I'm glad to be here.

I'm originally from Minneapolis area Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Twins, Atmosphere, and mosquitoes so big you need a tennis racket to smash them. Minnesota is a wonderful place to live, but Columbia is a close second.

My plan for this space is to chronicle my writing during a four-week summer session course as I begin to incorporate mindful practices into my writing process. I am currently in the process of working on my comprehensive examinations. In the English Department, we have a comps process where we write an essay over our comps year, instead of locking ourselves in a room examination-style. I'll be doing some work for that on this blog, but I'll also be reflecting on my mindfulness practices that I incorporate into my comps process.

For now, you can get to know me better around the web:
https://www.facebook.com/maxwell.philbrook
https://twitter.com/philby311
http://english.missouri.edu/gradstudents/514-maxwell-philbrook.html

You'll definitely see me commenting on your posts, so please feel free to do the same. It'd be great to hear from you!

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