Teaching with Trash: American Poetry & Personal Trash Piles
Published: Apr 8th, 2023
What impressions does a pile of discarded items reveal about your community? How might one or more of these items tell a story about a person (real or… Read More
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Punk DIY as Sustainable Pedagogy
Published: Dec 5th, 2022
I’m wrapping my PostPunk Cultures courses on the British 1980s this week. And I’m wrapping my head around the amazing work my students did for their DIY craft projects. Our… Read More
Aisles Full of Annotations! Ginsberg’s Supermarket in Perusall
Published: Jun 13th, 2022
Strolling through A Supermarket in California like a flâneur, Allen Ginsberg presents himself as a counterculture shopper in 1950s America. He sees the extraordinary in the new ordinary–garishly lit neon fruit, beaming wives… Read More
1950s Yearbook Highlights: Tapping Digital Archives for Student Projects
Published: Oct 28th, 2021
Do you remember how it felt to begin another full semester of remote learning in January 2021? While my students were scattered and attending class through their laptops or… Read More
Limericks for Oktoberfest
Published: Oct 23rd, 2021
I teach literature, and I am a literary beer reviewer. I write about literary-themed craft brews like the Leaves of Grass series from Bell’s (a tribute to poet Walt Whitman).… Read More
My Pandemic Triptych
Published: Mar 31st, 2021
March 2021 is winding down, and we’ve been reading countless accountings of the pandemic’s one-year anniversary. I can distill my pandemic year in three images of entangled worlds and warped… Read More
The Milledgeville Quiz: Who Said It?
Published: Mar 25th, 2021
Born 96 years ago today in Savannah, American fiction writer Flannery O’Connor lived much of her life in the family farm house in Milledgeville, GA. I recently taught her short… Read More
Chatalist: Zoom Chat as Form
Published: Feb 20th, 2021
A latecomer to pandemic pedagogy, I’m lately drawn to the phenomenon of Zoom Chat–something else that happens while I’m teaching. I first found it distracting and disconcerting, especially when I… Read More
Socks in Box: Marie Kondo Tidies Dr. Seuss
Published: Jun 15th, 2020
Socks Amok. Box. Socks. Pile of socks by empty box. Balled up socks in pile send shocks! She comes – Marie comes. My sock drawer now looks so sorry. Help… Read More
Theme Song to the Off-Off-Broadway Stationary Musical: Home-a-Lot!
Published: May 6th, 2020
Still at home? Sing along for custom quarantine karaoke here. (Be ready to start with the horns.) You can find the original Camelot theme song here. It’s true! It’s… Read More