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July 1, 2018Because what I really want my students to know—about the university, the course, writing—isn't what's in the syllabus, I created…
April 27, 2017It's the last week of classes, and my course announcements, as usual, have stacked up like this: Hey class, Due…
April 8, 2015In any city, in any country, in any university in which you have been enrolled, go into any classroom and…
August 27, 2014Been watching this unfold in my inbox on WPA-L all day and as one such adjunct, I have no words. Just…
May 1, 2014If I am always thinking about dismantling our binding webs of signification. Do we begin here, in the moment of…
July 9, 2010Content note: Blood Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th…- 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…
May 17, 2009When I start thinking about war or genocide, I go to the images first. Maybe this is so I can…