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 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…
May 4, 2007This exercise focused specifically on how to approach the final portfolio, the final assignment of the semester that essentially asks…