Heading South!

This is just a quickie, because I'm packing now for an early morning flight to San Antonio for this great conference held at UTSA Downtown by the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, whose work I love and have mentioned on here before.  Fantastic scholars from all over the place will be there.  Our panel is about strategies for teaching Borderlands/La Frontera to students who don't share Anzaldúa's sociological standpoint (and thus often tend to approach her work with wary hostility).  The whole conference is dedicated to her work, so I'm looking forward to learning a lot--and also to hanging out in the city where I lived for six years, from 16 to 22, when I was in college and having my son.

I really want to write about the new study just released by the MLA, "Standing Still:  The Associate Professor Survey," which looks at gender in the academy at the associate professor level--why women seem to stall out at that rank, basically, rather than rocketing along to full professor, as men do--because I have a ton of stuff to say, not just about the results but also about the assumptions and norms that inform the study.  But I need to save that for when I get back. 

Big thanks to all my great creative writing and Latina/o Studies students this spring, both here in Lincoln and out in Santa Monica, who worked so hard and accomplished so much.  Summer, with all its creative freedom, beckons gorgeously, but we sure did have a great time!