Remi

Hi, I'm Remi. And I'm an annotator.

I’ve learned to read our annotated world. And I’d like to show you its complexity and significance.

Welcome to Reading Re/Marks.

As an author, I've written two books published by MIT Press about how people add notes to texts: Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice (2025) and Annotation (2021).

As a researcher, my academic scholarship about annotation has appeared in various peer-reviewed publications, including Journal of Literacy Research, Information and Learning Sciences, Research in the Teaching of English, English Journal, and English Teaching: Practice and Critique, among other journals and edited volumes. You can learn more about my work as an academic on my website.

As a parent, I'm helping my young son learn how to read and write. A few years ago, while I was writing Re/Marks on Power, he was learning to read words like the, we, and up. Now, as a kindergartener, he's enjoying books and building confidence as a reader. What a joy witnessing his developing literacies.

I live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and enjoy running, cooking, and hiking with my family.

Yes, I Write in Books

Here's my copy of Art Spiegelman's Maus. This is the first Scholastic printing from 1992 (I read it just a few years later). It now includes a new dedication written to my son in anticipation of when we'll read this together.

Here's my annotated copy of Toni Morrison's Beloved; inside the front cover I wrote: "A gift from Nan + Steve Bidlack for my Bar Mitzvah, September 20th, 1997."

My annotated copy of bell hooks' Teaching to Transgress, which I first read in college. I wrote the following information inside the front cover: "Earlham College, Philosophy of Education, Howard Richards, Fall 2002."

And my annotated copy of Andrew Piper's Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times, a most instructive resource that I consulted frequently when writing my first book Annotation.