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Theatrical Training in the Multimodal Composition Classroom
I run my first-year composition seminar as an acting class several times per semester. What does that mean? If you were to visit us, here are some of the things you might witness: physical and vocal...
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Making Editing Multimodal
Like so many writing instructors, I frequently find myself frustrated with what appears to be a lack of attention to editing in the papers I receive from my students. In the Fall 2013 semester, I...
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Taking on the Trivial in English 1102
When this school year began, everyone was talking about the GT convocation video that went viral. “You can do that!” was the theme of the speech, where “that” meant things like changing the world,...
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Translation and Transformation: International Modernism in the Classroom
Fig. 1. Natal’ya Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Aleksei Kruchenyk, Igra V Du (A Game in Hell), 1912. Illustrated book with thirteen lithographs, 18.3 x 14 cm. One of the advantages of teaching at...
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Let Us Not Forget the Forgotten – Letter from France on the 70th Anniversary...
Francois Hollande and Barack Obama with D-Day Veterans in Normandy. June 6, 2014 In his D-Day speech on the beaches of Normandy, French president Francois Hollande not only paid his respects to the...
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Why I Teach a Composition Class About College
This weekend I planned class sessions for my “Fictional Life of College” composition course, sent emails, pet my cats, talked with a friend about going to poetry readings, worked on my book at a coffee...
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Virtual Worlds: The communities among us
When many of us think of virtual worlds they think of working in or doing things in them, or perhaps in some instances creating things in them. In 2009, there were over 579 million subscribers to...
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Offseason Musings: Football, Pedagogy, and the Multimodal Composition Classroom
College football is increasingly in the news, and usually for all of the wrong reasons. One of the most concerning things for educators is the relationship between the academic and athletic programs at...
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Semiotic Domains and System Design in The Classroom
Abstract: The creative student in the Digital Humanities classroom. What does it mean to be a “creative” person in a digital era? Standard practice in the humanities is to divide “critical” activities...
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A Thousand Hamlets
By Sarah Higinbotham, Fan Geng, and Dun Cao Simon Russell Beale, National Theater, London, 2014 What does Shakespeare offer aerospace engineering majors, who often take eighteen hours of computational...
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“Should I Go to Work?”: On Participating in A Day Without Women
Images from the March 9 Women’s Strike and Female Scientists (center), available under a Creative Commons license. On the morning of March 8, 2017, I, like many women around the country (and perhaps...
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The Doubleplusgoodspeak of Newspeak: Poetry and Orwell’s 1984
Film still from Michael Radford’s 1984 adaptation of George Orwell’s novel. https://i2.wp.com/www.nowverybad.com/wp-content/uploads/1984_still4.jpg Two days after President Trump’s inauguration, on...
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Putting Lux in the Darkness: Remembering Poet and Professor Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux reads his poem “Ode to the Fat Child” at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00hSdpt6O8 Editor’s Note: When I first had the idea to teach an English 1102...
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Why Not?: On Punk and Pedagogy
Jack Black as Dewey Finn in Richard Linklater’s School of Rock (2003). Not long before the Primitives changed their name to the Velvet Underground, the band’s singer, Lou Reed, wrote to his Syracuse...
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Flash Readings, Episode 6: “Colson Whitehead Will Break You, Too”
Harriet Tubman (left), with rescued family and neighbors, circa 1887, at her home in Auburn, New York. From left: Gertie Davis; Nelson Davis; Lee Chaney; “Pop” John Alexander; Walter Green; Blind...
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Sonnets @ Tech: The Pedagogy of Writing as Making
Image via Baltimore Fishbowl. When modernist poet William Carlos Williams antagonistically announced, “To me all sonnets say the same thing of no importance. What does it matter what the line ‘says’?”,...
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Teaching in All Seasons: Poetics, Ideal Tendencies, and Food Literacy
Pedagogy in action. Photo courtesy of the author. SUMMER “Once I remember looking into the freezer can the next morning and finding the leftover ice cream had all returned to milk. It was like the...
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Things To Do in Wivenhoe; Or, So Going Around “The Basketball Diaries”: A New...
Postcard of Wivenhoe, Essex, England looking over River Colne, sent by Ted Berrigan to Bill Berkson, 1974. Courtesy of University of Connecticut Archives and Special Collections. “Wake up high up /...
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16 Brittain Fellows Write About the Archives They Love
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. Photo by Michael Marsland. Archives, research libraries, and special collections are the crucial spaces where study begins. While public...
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Taking Twitter Higher, Further, Faster: Leading the #Womenonpanels Event
Cover art by David Lopez for issue no. 1 of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s run of Captain Marvel. In our current moment, when many of us think of Twitter, we think of it as a space of broadcasting, unproductive...
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