Hello. I'm Christina Saidy and I'm a second year student in rhet/comp. I'm originally from Los Angeles, Like Pepper I don't really enjoy the cold weather, but Indiana has its merits. I have a Masters in education, Masters in rhet/comp, and teaching credential. When I left California I left behind an eight year teaching career, which I still miss from time to time.
One of my main areas of scholarly interest is community. Specifically, I'm interested in the way that community is defined, who does the defining, and how the definitions change. I am also interested in community work that allows me to move beyond the university and use rhetorical scholarship to do something. My other main area of interest is educational change documents. I am particularly interested in educational change as a "public" act.
Since my exposure to classical rhetoric has been limited thus far (one class in my masters program that covered classical, modern, and postmodern), I feel like I've been missing a historical understanding of rhetoric that might compliment my research. That's what I'm hoping to find in this class.