"a little passport is my life" -- E.E. Cummings

I've designed this site both as an online version of the traditional portfolio and as a space that both gathers and re-enacts my approach to teaching and researching the literature of travel. 

 PORTFOLIO. Etymology: an altered form of earlier porto folio "portfolio," from Italian portafoglio (same meaning), from portare "to carry" and foglio "leaf, sheet"; portare from Latin portare "to carry" and foglio from Latin folium "leaf" --related to FOLIAGE, PORTABLE
1 : a case for carrying papers or drawings

1722, from It. portafoglio "a case for carrying loose papers," from porta, imperative of portare "to carry" (see port (1)) + foglio "sheet, leaf," from L. folium (see folio).

 PASSPORT. 1 : a government-issued document that serves to identify a citizen and allows him or her to travel to foreign countries
2 : something that allows a person to reach a desired goal