I am currently a PhD student at Syracuse University in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program. My general research interests include feminist theory, disability studies, and fat studies. Within those very broad areas, I’m more specifically interested in embodiment, feminist epistemology, feminism and science/technology, the rhetoric of medicine and science, material rhetoric, and feminist methodology.
This blog is primarily meant to function as a place to store and organize some of my reading notes, particularly as I prepare to take my exams. My major exam area is in Rhetorics of the Body, and I am doing two minor exams in Feminist Methods and Methodologies and in Disability Studies. I consider all of the thoughts/readings offered here in-progress, and certainly welcome any comments.
Bibliography of my Life 
I’m interested in your summaries of the Octalogs. Can we talk? Can I cite you?
Of course you can cite my work here. I’d be honored! And I’d love to talk with you. My email address is alhensle at syr dot edu. Thank you for your comment!
I am so happy to have stumbled upon this blog! I too am a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at U of Arizona, and I am delighted to see others trying to weave through the tangled knots of feminisms, methodologies, and rhetorics of the bodies. These were my comprehensive exams areas in 2011. I thank you for sharing your materials and look forward to following your work.