i’m very excited about teaching an ecotexts class this spring. it’s a “literary themes” class at the 2000 level. i’m putting together the website for it right now and i’m also trying to put finishing touches on the syllabus. i decided to change the format of the class a little bit than what i [...]
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November 13, 2006
cycles of uprising
I’ve been meaning to write about the fantastic experience that was cycles of uprising. first of all, you have to check out this site for a little background info about some of the members. cycles of uprising describes themselves as “an interactive bicycle village, folk music show, circus, dance party, and adventure that celebrates historic [...]
July 26, 2006
Jeri Pollock’s Can Literacy Be Environmental?
I came across this essay just recently (from the Dec. 2004 English Teaching journal) and I think it has a number of good points. However, I am caught in a form of critique (which I attribute to the voices of some writing program administrators out there) which questions any themed-composition classroom. On one hand I [...]
July 24, 2006
summer teaching
given that
A. a few people have asked me about my summer
and
B. i am currently in the midst of designing my fall and spring syllabi (english 1002: civic literacy and english 2025: eco-fiction and eco-criticism) and have consequently been thinking about good and bad teaching experiences,
i think that the letter below will provide sufficient commentary.
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Dear Director [...]
July 6, 2006
FRRRRESH AIR
If you didn’t get to hear Fresh Air today, here it is. Geoff Nunberg talks about his new book, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show which I can’t wait to read (The Way We Talk Now was a good one by [...]
