My New Writing/Summer Project

My institution awarded me a research grant for the summer. My project is to look at and write about Dany Laferrière's practice of rewriting, revising, and adapting his work. It's a subject that has long fascinated me, starting ten years ago when I, on little more than a whim, decided to add his debut novel, provocatively titled How to Make Love to a Negro (recently re-released with the title finally fully translated to How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired). 

I've started a new blog, Chasing Laferrière. It's a mixture of academic writing, musings, and my own relationship to Laferrière's writing. 

Bookmark it, like it, tweet it, share it, and keep your eyes open for it over the summer. This site is me, the teacher/general academic. Chasing Laferrière is me, the discipline-specific scholar and self-reflexive; it another facet of who I am and why. I'll still be posting here over the summer (new weekly feature for the summer, coming soon, after I get back from next week's conference in Montreal), but I hope you'll check out Chasing Laferrière from time to time.