{"id":7220,"date":"2009-07-21T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/ken-macrorie\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:30:08","slug":"ken-macrorie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/ken-macrorie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Macrorie"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

By way of WPA-L and Twitter, I learned yesterday that Ken Macrorie passed away earlier this month<\/a>. Macrorie was, among other things, an innovator, a teacher well-known for parodying the most “dehydrated” approaches to English Studies, for railing against mechanical prose, for cracking jokes on hyper-cantankerous pedagogies and their perpetrators.<\/p>\n

I encountered a little bit of Macrorie in CCR732, our course on curriculum. We didn’t read all of Uptaught<\/em>. I don’t even think I own a copy (it might be packed, if I do). But copies are surprisingly cheap on Amazon: used for 25 cents plus four bucks S&H. They’re worth more than that. I also had three or four conversations with my first MA adviser about the I-Search paper, Macrorie’s self-styled take on the research paper, research freed up to personal aesthetics, intensities, delight, etc.<\/p>\n

In addition to reading Mike’s<\/a> and Jeff’s<\/a> recent entries, I went back and looked at a couple of entries where I wrote about Macrorie’s stuff. And I was glad I did.<\/p>\n