Kristie Fleckenstein (1999) reignited rhetorical and compositionist analyses of personal writing, if not the memoir assignment directly, in the College English article, “Writing Bodies: Somatic Mind in Composition Studies.” Fleckenstein argues for a greater understanding, incorporation if you will, of how writing occurs through the body, not only in an abstract mind; but she does not address the effects of the body and its history of experiences, expressed in patterns of neural transmitter-enabled connections, on a person’s production of language orally and in writing. She does not articulate how the body writes (circumscribes or enables) which narrations are available to language and which narrations will resist language. For all her insistence upon the corporeal, the reality of the body, Fleckenstein makes no reference to the body of knowledge about the human body, especially that related to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder, evolving in the natural sciences. Neither do any of the authors who follow her in the two special issues on personal writing, in September 2001 and September 2003, featured in College English.