I’m Maria Vieytez, a fifth-year PhD candidate in the English department working on race-thinking in the medieval period. My dissertation investigates how literatures of racial encounter present their logics of differentiation through the narrative form of the “knot,” which works as a site of both affective congealment and concealment. Prior to beginning my current program, I received an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Swarthmore College, and spent much of that time learning about and developing my own writing practices. In my teaching experiences, I am committed to thinking about writing as necessarily processual and personal, and I enjoy working with others to discover the frameworks and routines that best fit their writing goals. I am particularly interested in considering how the subject positions we occupy, including but not limited to those having to do with race, class, and gender, inform not only what and how we write but also how we think of ourselves as writers.