Since the title of my recent book is The Last Vanishing Man (and the titleRead More
Tag: pedagogy
He Gave Us Each Other: In Memory of Jeffrey Pratt Beedy
Today, I gathered with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, former students, former teachers, and former staff membersRead More
When It’s Fun to Grade
This morning I was grading work for a 2-credit, half-semester course I teach called ClusterRead More
Generous Thinking Now
“We’re in a bad time for everybody. There are very few models as to ourRead More
Poor. Queer. Studies.
Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies is the most exciting book about academia that I haveRead 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
Assignment: Low-Tech Research
Here’s an assignment I recently developed and tested out on a group of students andRead More
Cruelty-Free Syllabi
This Inside Higher Edarticle about a particularly punishing course syllabus is extreme, but many college professors haveRead More