“In English studies, we all strive to promote critical consciousness, but what we mean by critical consciousness and how we strive toward fostering it varies considerably from scholar to scholar. We use our concentrations to categorize ourselves, to tag ourselves, to align ourselves ideologically, but our concentrations never fully define us, our convictions, or our rabbit holes. Even our favorite theorists, those professors whom we are most likely to want to be Xerox copies of, can never fully represent us. We are fragmented and our representatives–our favorite theorists, concentrations, theories, methodologies, and ideals–can never be substitutes for ourselves. No one will speak for us without mediation; we must speak for ourselves.”