About

All thinking is analogizing, and it is the use of life to learn metonymy.

[Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Poetry and Imagination”]

What am I about?

This blog is my experiment: a database for my current work in progress, my research and writing around and about Emerson and education (with links to metonymy and digital literacies–as you will tell from my categoires). I am looking into learning metonymy (a phrase I glean from Emerson’s writing) as a subject and a topic; and I am working on and within that metonymy here, in these spaces, in this writing….

Professor Sean Ross Meehan teaches English at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

For more on Professor Meehan’s scholarship and teaching.

His book Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman.

 

 

 

 

His book (edited with Mark Long) Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 

 

 

 

 

In 2019 his new book A Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind will be published by Camden House.

Professor Meehan also appears periodically in the form of his blog posts, exploring issues and experimenting with ideas from his various courses on writing and American literature:  Literature and Composition: Gutenberg Progenies; American Environmental Writing; The Essay; The Art of Rhetoric; and Transcendentalism: Emerson’s School.