May 31, 2014Yes. I did forget. In fact, I may still be in the midst of remembering. And yes: I "passed with…
May 1, 2014If I am always thinking about dismantling our binding webs of signification. Do we begin here, in the moment of…
June 15, 2011Maybe once upon a time in my life, Rule 34 on Julian Assange, or any other real, living person, would…
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 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 4, 2007This exercise focused specifically on how to approach the final portfolio, the final assignment of the semester that essentially asks…