Blood's Will

“Blood’s Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere is a significant contribution—and really, a remarkable piece of work—by one of the nation’s most important scholar/authors in the curriculum studies, teacher education, educational policy, and research fields. This work isn’t merely a novel that you can’t put down, it is a window to so many salient themes that we think about in our work on a daily basis and have few innovative resources to address them in our work as individuals and with students. I believe this book will be read widely and should be taught in our courses.” —Tom Poetter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University
“Blood’s Will is a speculative fiction in the vampire subgenre that also functions as a philosophical meditation on curriculum inquiry (with particular reference to the autobiographical method now known as currere) and dramatizes ontological, epistemological, and axiological questions about human knowledges and understandings of living and dying. It is clearly informed by feminist, counter-heteronormative, and what I would call post-humanist positions. This book is a significant contribution to the literature of curriculum theorizing.” —Noel Gough, Professor Emeritus at La Trobe University
“Not since Madeleine Grumet’s Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching have I fallen under the spell of a powerful and creative feminist text. Morna McDermott McNulty’s Blood’s Will makes this passage between the public and private worlds for our contemporary times. No doubt, you too will devour this compelling postmodern feminist novel conveying larger life themes through the vampire archetype!” —Carol Mullen, Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech