But the U of O did provide an optional course called “Teaching to Transgress,” led by a radical librarian associated with its teaching effectiveness suite. Without guidance, many of us just imitated our image of a know-it-all professor, teaching in a cramped didactic fashion. Like many graduate programs, this “opportunity” came with no formal training. When I was a graduate student at the University of Oregon, back in the early aughts, I was expected to teach for my graduate stipend. I want to add my own small heap of roses to the scores of published obituaries and remembrances in circulation, with a personal account of what she meant to me as a working-class academic and scholar of working-class studies. In the final month of a horrible year of many tragedies and too many deaths, we lost bell hooks, a writer, scholar, and activist whose work has had a profound influence on many of us.
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