My students and I nearly read the entirety of Cleanth Brooks’s The Well Wrought Urn (1947) over the last four weeks. We skipped the chapters on Milton, Pope, and
Category: Teaching
ENGL 734: Literary Modernism, History of Pedagogy, Philosophy of Education
This fall, I’m leading a graduate seminar related in part to my first book project (still a work in progress), Learn | Read | Love: The Sensuous Pedagogies
A Letter to Students: Love Theory (Round 1)
[The following is a slightly modified letter I sent to one of my classes this semester at USD. The names of students have been removed and
Reading Derrida: The Semantic Slide from the Lure to Allure (Of Grammatology)
In just a couple of weeks, I start teaching a summer course in Contemporary Lit at URI’s Kingston campus. I had a hard time deciding on a course theme
Terror, Riot, Murder: Reading Spivak, Baltimore, and … Frankenstein?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak begins her essay, “Terror: A Speech After 9/11” (2004), These ruminations arose in response to America’s war on terrorism. I started from
Reading Spivak: Random Musings on “More on Power/Knowledge” (1993)
I did not understand Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak the first time I read these words (which begin her essay “More on Power/Knowledge” in Outside in the Teaching Machine [1993,
Sketching a Present 