June 30, 2012Bedridden as I've been with pain, I'm stuck with a view of my cluttered room to my right and apartment…
June 5, 2012This was my overarching impression of my first year as a Ph.D. student: too much reading, too much coursework, too…
September 9, 2011In a public show of reflexivity and self-assessment, Anonymous addresses the in-fighting that has unfortunately been characterizing it lately. @Anon_Central…
May 31, 2011For 5-6 years, I’ve taught Jeffrey Cohen’s “Monster Culture” in my classroom in an essay progression focusing on horror film.…
May 30, 2011Sent to me via comment on my previous post on WoW as a form of prison labor in China, here…
July 9, 2010Content note: Blood Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th…
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…