Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies is the most exciting book about academia that I haveRead More
The Value in the Public Good
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed many fissures and failures in U.S. society, some of whichRead More
Instead of Rigor: Play and Risk
Buildings and bridgesare made to bend in the windto withstand the worldthat’s what it takes.AllRead More
Show & Tell
Last weekend, I took an online seminar (via The Shipman Agency) led by Garth Greenwell,Read More
Habits of Mind, Habits of Mine
I’m participating in Plymouth State University’s Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community (CPLC), and this post isRead More
The Value of Uselessness
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Supporting Openness Should Not Mean Supporting Piracy
The Internet Archive has decided to respond to the corona virus crisis by creating whatRead More
When Students Have Power by Ira Shor
Published almost 25 years ago, Ira Shor’s When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in aRead More
MLA 2020: “(Against) The Syllabus as an Instrument of Cruelty”
At this year’s MLA Convention, I was a member of a great panel discussing “TheRead More
Looking Back on Fall 2019
I did not intend to abandon this site for months, but the past term wasRead More
