ABSTRACT
Seeking our genius loci, we were feeling haunted by unresolved encounters with our experiences with teaching and research. Wanting to be set in motion, we became as pilgrims, gathering in a writing and conversational space where (as in Chaucer’s poem) the “rooms and stables … [were] wide.” As five women in various stages and places of academia, we met regularly over the course of three years, drawn to the curriculum archive and especially to Toward a Poor Curriculum, carving out a space for study in which to frame our discussions and our writing. In this chapter, we share our shared pilgrimage in response to a dynamic archive/anarchive. We talk about how we felt provoked by currere to summon and share about the ghosts that haunt our work as educators, researchers and students. We exemplify the movement from private to public in narratives crafted and re-crafted through the sharing of our pilgrim tales. We write about how we were provoked by currere to reflect on the power of allegory in which to recursively ground ourselves and our work and in so doing, to open spaces and passages for moving from particularity to alterity.
