Dan--Next year, this course will be a split level course for both undergraduate and graduate students. In the split course, the graduate students will be reading plenty of theory. I think that for undergrads to wrap their minds around the concepts of the course is difficult enough (it was hard for me even as a grad student!) and do not need or even want the addition of complex theory. (Speak up undergrad if that isn't true!)

My way of thinking about it is that I am informed by theory and that theory makes its way into the materials that I have chosen for class, the ways in which we discuss those materials, and the types of writing that I assign.

I think that we would spend too much time trying to make sense of theory, especially Irigiray and the other French feminists, than getting to the heart of how body rhetorics shape our world and how we live in it.

If you ever want to talk about the French feminists or any other body theory, I would be glad to do so. Let me know.