Molly Ryan

I’m Molly Ryan, first year PhD student at Virginia Tech. Broadly, my research dually focuses on teaching well and the mentorship that teaches one to teach well. Specifically, I am drawn to theory and practice in writing studies pedagogies, queering curricula, and accounting for slow-moving, sometimes spooky shifts in disciplinary makeup, particularly around interpersonal interaction. My current research surrounds rhetorical pronoia, eunoia, and metanoia in pedagogy, mentorship sponsors in rhetoric and writing, and the possibilities of digital abstracts. My work has appeared in Kairos, CLC, and WAC-Clearinghouse Affiliate press books.

Kaleidoscopic Databaseology: Making Meaning of Knowledge Haunted and Corporeal

This entry ponders the significance of database as an act of theory-making in two phases: database as fate and database as canon-making. The intention of this work is to extend the consideration of formation of knowledge in digital spaces as an active process influenced by the metaphysical, an interwoven academic lifemaking that penetrates into the…

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For the plot

Cued up from Hayles (2007) and Folsom (2007) I find the ponderance of databases as carefully plotted but also as wildly human, as collateral to whims and unbidden fantasy, and somehow distillable down to a character, an avatar made of code and thought and poorly translatable emotion. Can databases be alive, not because of their…

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