Writing on a Thursday
Franziska Tsufim
Keywords: parenting, online teaching
Categories: Parenting and Possibility in Impossible Times; Teaching as Carework, Teaching as Dangerous Work
I’m teaching this class
online
This is a first
with my students in the chat
I write!
One hand on my keypad.
My breasts dangling
Forgotten
My babe deep asleep in my arms
I am
in the chat
One hand is enough.
The lettuce was fresh maybe
yesterday
“Dinner is ready”
I remain
in the chat
One hand is enough.
Bio
Franziska Tsufim completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Irvine while raising her two children. She is currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she teaches multimodal writing and communication classes. Her research focuses on British literature of the Victorian period, the intersections of gender, economics, and literature, and on life writing studies. Her secondary research interests are writing studies, in particular first-year composition, and academia and motherhood.