September 4, 2010I presented my first conference paper ever this week at Graphic Engagement 2010 at Purdue, which was also just a…
July 9, 2010Content note: Blood Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th…
June 16, 2010"As I got to know my adjunct colleagues better, I began to see these largely invisible, voiceless laborers as a…
June 1, 2010Last Wednesday, there was a shoot-out at our site. A few coworkers, kids, and I had entered the center. I…
May 16, 2010This month marks the first anniversary of the Tamil genocide, which culminated in the Mullivaikkal massacre. On May 18, 2009,…
May 12, 2010Echoing its clumsy use of under-language with visual and verbal elements, the film score—even though the songs are often explicitly…
May 11, 2010Content note: Apartheid, famine, human rights atrocities, immolation Authors Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva were members of the so-called Bang-Bang…
May 7, 2010I've been thinking about the question that I brought up in class on Monday, about the impact of fiction versus…
May 6, 2010I'm a big fan of thinking exercises, short activities that model (in familiar forms) the kinds of thinking students need…
March 20, 2010I had my first-year writing literature classes read excerpts from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. And my students had a…