{"id":3498,"date":"2011-12-05T19:28:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T19:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2011-12-06T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:31:35","slug":"prof-sandy-publishes-containment-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/12\/05\/prof-sandy-publishes-containment-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Sandy Publishes &#8220;Containment Theory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3504\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3504\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2011\/12\/KirstiSandy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"224\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirsti Sandy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Associate Professor of English <strong>Kirsti Sandy&#8217;s<\/strong> nonfiction essay, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/freerangenonfiction.com\/?page_id=2974\" target=\"_blank\">Containment Theory<\/a>\u201d is featured in the Nov. 28 issue of\u00a0 <em>Freshly Hatched<\/em>, the online journal of Freerange Nonfiction, a New York City reading series and storytelling collective. The series is a <em>New York Magazine<\/em>\u00a0 \u201cCritic\u2019s Pick\u201d\u00a0 and has been praised by <em>Electric Literature<\/em> as \u201cthe best nonfiction reading series.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nProf. Sandy, presently the interim coordinator of ITW (Thinking and Writing), has published several articles on the pedagogy of writing, and has co-authored with Professor Phyllis Benay <em>Think, Write, Learn: A User\u2019s Guide to Sustained Writing Projects<\/em>. &#8220;I teach memoir and creative nonfiction courses, and what my students have been able to do with their writing has inspired me to write more of my own nonfiction. So basically, I\u2019m making the shift from academic writer to creative writer,&#8221; Prof. Sandy explained. &#8220;&#8216;Containment Theory&#8217; is part of a book I am working on called <em>My Life in Semesters: Life and Learning in the Last Days of the Twentieth Century<\/em>, a memoir about my experiences attending eight different schools between kindergarten and college. I really appreciate how Keene State encourages faculty to expand our scholarly interests and take new paths.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of English Kirsti Sandy&#8217;s nonfiction essay, \u201cContainment Theory\u201d is featured in the Nov. 28 issue of\u00a0 Freshly Hatched, the online journal of Freerange Nonfiction, a New York City reading series and storytelling collective. The series is a New York Magazine\u00a0 \u201cCritic\u2019s Pick\u201d\u00a0 and has been praised by Electric Literature as \u201cthe best nonfiction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/12\/05\/prof-sandy-publishes-containment-theory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prof. Sandy Publishes &#8220;Containment Theory&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[432,445],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faculty","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}