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Am I a Generalist or a Linguist? Or, How Relevant Are Emotions and Refracting Methodologies to the Academy? An interview with Joshua Nash
No full textIn his piece “Linguistic Spatial Violence: The Case of the Muslim Cameleers in the Australian Outback,” Joshua Nash utilizes innovative methodological approaches, spatial writing, and sensuous scholarship to explore the architectural and linguistic traces of Muslim cameleers crossing the Australian desert in the late 19th and early 20th century. Refract’s editorial board saw a unique opportunity to highlight interdisciplinary methodologies and diverse approaches to scholarship through an interview with Nash, who is currently Associate Professor at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. Editorial board members Leslie McShane Lodwick and Maggie Wander interviewed Nash in August 2018 to learn more about the methods he employed to write his contribution to this issue. The following is the result of the email exchanges between Nash, Lodwick, and Wander
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Am I a Generalist or a Linguist? Or, How Relevant Are Emotions and Refracting Methodologies to the Academy? An interview with Joshua Nash
No full textIn his piece “Linguistic Spatial Violence: The Case of the Muslim Cameleers in the Australian Outback,” Joshua Nash utilizes innovative methodological approaches, spatial writing, and sensuous scholarship to explore the architectural and linguistic traces of Muslim cameleers crossing the Australian desert in the late 19th and early 20th century. Refract’s editorial board saw a unique opportunity to highlight interdisciplinary methodologies and diverse approaches to scholarship through an interview with Nash, who is currently Associate Professor at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. Editorial board members Leslie McShane Lodwick and Maggie Wander interviewed Nash in August 2018 to learn more about the methods he employed to write his contribution to this issue. The following is the result of the email exchanges between Nash, Lodwick, and Wander
T Nash
No full textBorn and raised in Lynn, T Nash grew up in East Lynn on Alley Street and then later in West Lynn. A 1992 graduate of Lynn Technical High School and 1995 graduate of North Shore Community College, Nash has spent a life in childcare, education, nursing, and elder care. He is a member of North Shore Pride and Chairperson for the Lynn Pride Flag Raising. He is the proud parent of an adult daughter and five-year-old son, who she and her partner are raising in Salem. A self-described “bully” as a teen, Nash explains how violence and alcoholism shaped her childhood. T discusses the long process of growing comfortable with his sexual and gender identity as a lesbian and trans-man. T speaks fondly about Fran’s Place and enthusiastically about the victory of marriage equality. T is the author of a book about caregiving called "Try Kindness.
Jere Nash Interview with Crymes G. Pittman
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with attorney Crymes G. Pittman in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topic is Pittman\u27s experience representing Governor Bill Allain against allegations of homosexuality
Jere Nash Interview with Glenn Endris
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Gulf Coast Mississippi legislator Glenn Endris in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include gaming bills in the Mississippi legislature; highway legislation; education legislation; Gene Taylor; growth of casino industry; Endris\u27s background; and Richard Nixon\u27s visit to the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Camille
Jere Nash Interview with Bob Montgomery
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with state senator Bob Montgomery in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Mississippi Senate; Medicaid bill; Brad Dye; Mississippi Highway program and legislation; gambling legislation; tobacco litigation; tort reform; and Montgomery\u27s reelection campaign following reapportionment
Jere Nash Interview with Sam Waggoner
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Sam Waggoner, a former Central District Highway Commissioner, in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Waggoner\u27s background; 1986 Mississippi Legislature Special Session on highways; the 1987 Highway bill; and Owen Cooper
Jere Nash Interview with Buddy Medlin
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with capitol lobbyist Buddy Medlin in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include 1989 gaming legislation in the Mississippi legislature; lottery legislation; Brad Dye; ending prohibition in Mississippi; John Bell Williams; Medlin campaigning for a Mississippi House seat; Ellis Bodron; Charlie Sullivan; and James O. Eastland
Jere Nash Interview with Rick Carter
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with casino proprietor Rick Carter as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Clark\u27s background; casino industry in Mississippi; legislation on gaming; and current status of casinos on the Gulf Coast
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