(You have to read the title all long and drawn out, like the talking belly button episode -"The Voice" on Seinfeld. I hope at least one of you knows what I'm talking about.)
At any rate, I'm Karen Kaiser Lee, or Karen Lee, I like having multiple names so I don't get pinned down to just one identity. I'm in my second year of PhD work in rhetoric and comp. I an Ohioan by birth (Akron represent!) but my family migrated south. I got my BA in English at UF and spent many a year finding out what sorts of jobs you can have outside of academia with an English degree. According to my research, you can do corporate training, proofreading, and various and sundry marketing and advertising tasks. Eventually I figured out that I wasn't cut out for office life and decided to try grad school. While visiting Miami University, my guide from the department told me all about her major, something called composition. I was hooked right away - I get to study the sorts of texts I'm actually interested in AND there's a job market? Awesome. I had to postpone my entry into the field for my MA at FSU, but I was determined to study rhet/comp, so here I am!
I'm interested in new media and integrating participatory culture into first-year comp, and professional writing. I never took a philosophy course so on the one hand studying all these Greek dudes seems a bit daunting. But I did take Latin in high school, enough to negatively impact my social life but sadly I don't remember a lot of it these days. Besides the prelim prep I'm hoping to learn what I should have put in my thesis on English renaissance hunting manuals. I'm a bit of a history nerd so let's see what's in store here!