Published: Dec 4th, 2024
Today I wrapped my graduate seminar Women’s Writing & Pedagogy with a reveal of students’ Domestic Arts Assemblage projects, crafted from discarded items at our community’s creative reuse center, The… Read More
Published: Jul 11th, 2024
I’ve taught Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar many times in several courses: American literature, major authors, women’s literature, and the American 1950s. Most are brimming with English majors. During my… Read More
Published: May 26th, 2024
Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. –Gaston Bachelard In his meditative book The Poetics of Space, philosopher-poet-postmaster Gaston Bachelard situates the house… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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