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Welcome to the Oneiroi (the Family of Dreams)

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Andrew Winslow and this page is a public space devoted to discussion and critique.

Currently, I've finished my Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona. My plans for the coming year are to stay in Tucson, close to family, and find teaching positions locally.

As you're poking around, you may see the influence of my eclectic interests. I suppose that it comes with being a teacher, but I love research and learning! My main goal here is to share the interesting and cool things that I find in the hopes that the internet can match the information to the right audience.

Take, for example, the title of this blog: Oneiroi.

The name refers to the family of dreams from classical Greek Mythology. The ancients believed that when the Olympians (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, etc.) overthrew the Titans, they began civilizing the universe by taming rogue magic and teachign mankind the arts and warfare.

What's *not* as well known is that they exiled a group of their brothers and cousins--an offshoot of the Olympians called the Oneiroi. Descended from Nyx (night), their eldest patriarchs are Thanatos (death) and Hypnos (sleep), twin brothers who embody the moment between the conscious and unconscious states, whether it be at night or facing eternal twilight. Their descendants, led by Morpheus (the king of dreams), were a family of shape shifters who descended on the world at night and inhabited our dreams as ideas.

this is the spirit of this blog: to challenge, to critique, to discuss, and to envision the things that dreams are made of--no matte how fleeting they may seem.

All the best,

Andrew Winslow, Ph.D.

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