15 February 2017
After my first call with Ann, I sat down to write a letter to her. In part I thought this might fill in my own history a bit, give some context for her imagination. I thought it interesting that during my conversation with her, Ann seemed to assume I was unfamiliar with her work. She asked me, half way in, what was my program of study. Rhetoric and Composition, I said. Her response: Oh good. I thought maybe you were in Education or something or god forbid Literature. I chuckled. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, she said, and then added that some fields seemed to “cater to their merchants of learning…which aren’t ours.”