Welcome to the course. This is another place for us to have a dialogue (as well as via individual blogs, and in class, of course!). Working with a weblog ("blog") may seem intimidating, but once you get the hang of it you'll be blogging away in no time. I've been blogging for a little over seven months now (here is my blog, scribblingwoman; take a look and please feel free to comment via the convenient comment feature), and I find it addictive. This is the second class I have asked to blog; the first was English 3722: Contemporary Science Fiction: gender and sexuality, last term. The exercise was pretty successful and a real online community grew up (If you want to read some of the blogs from that class, they are linked from my blog). I hope we can build the same sort of community here. And who knows? Some of you may want to keep on blogging after April.