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The Best Question To Ask on the Last Day of Class
Anyone who cares about teaching knows that the final day of class can be especially meaningful, especially for a class that has gone exceptionally...
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Thinking Beyond the Canon
The following syllabus is a manifestation of a larger rhetorical and pedagogical investigation into the possibilities of postcanonical and...
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Workshop Curriculum: Un/Mapping Past / Place / Future
Inspired by mapping projects like those of the Community Futures Lab and Below the Grid , as well as trauma-informed workshops like The Longtermers’...
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Building a Better Course Evaluation Form: Here's a Template
It's course evaluation time. Most student evaluation forms look as bureaucratic as the one in this photo. Do we really need to make our course...
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Designing Curriculum for the Digital Age #NYTLive #NYTHigherEd
I was honored and delighted to participate in the New York Times Higher Ed Leaders Forum, MAY 30-31, at the Time Center, NYC. I conducted one of the...
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HASTAC Reflections: Year One
I decided to do a bit of a “first-year reflection” style post here, in summation of my two semesters spent as a HASTAC Scholar and one semester spent...
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Can a Humanities Lecture Course Also Be a Publication Workshop?
[ Author's note: This post was adapted from a how-to guide that accompanied the launching of The Godfather: Anatomy of a Film , a digital project...
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Structuring Equality in my American Literature Class
It’s syllabus-writing season! After some time away from teaching, time for reflection and growth as an educator, I am thrilled to be teaching “...
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Writing Is Hard
Last week, at a Mellon convening, I learned about a remarkable project between Johns Hopkins and Community College of Baltimore County local...
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Why I Teach with HASTAC: Platforms as Critical Pedagogy
This post is part of a two-part series that considers digital learning platforms as an issue of critical pedagogy. HASTAC as Critical Pedagogy I...
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How to do Grading With Words: Weekly Writing Assignments and Descriptive Rubrics (Part 2)
Written in conversation with T.L. Cowan https://www.hastac.org/blogs/tlcowan/2018/08/27/how-do-grading-words-wee... I walked into T.L.’s Facebook...
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How to do Grading With Words: Weekly Writing Assignments and Descriptive Rubrics (Part 1)
Written in conversation with George Hoagland. https://www.hastac.org/blogs/george-hoagland/2018/08/27/how-do-grading-words-weekly-writing-assignments...
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Troubleshooting an assignment that almost worked
I’ve recently finished teaching a class on The Digital Text, which was my very first time as sole instructor. I plan to reflect on a few elements of...
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Recent Presentation: Critical DH in WGSS 101
University of Kansas, Teaching Summit Critical Engagement through Digital Pedagogy (Equity) Wescoe 4040, 10:55 – 11:35 Breakout Sessions II An Sasala...
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How a HASTAC Session Inspired Me to Create Class Constitutions: Part 1, a Reblog
I went to HASTAC 2017 with the aim of learning new teaching methods. I was already reading this blog and testing the ideas for teaching at the...
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Collaborative Close Reading
Close reading - observing the stylistic details of a text in order to analyze an author’s use of language - is a skill taught in almost all college...
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Immersive Pedagogy: A Symposium on Teaching and Learning with 3D, Augmented and Virtual Reality
3D, Augmented and Virtual Reality Pedagogy Symposium for Humanities Practitioners to be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Spring 2019 Pittsburgh...
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Valuing Diversity in Teaching, Even when Others Don't
Recently, a friend and I commiserated on social media about students in classes feeling like there is too much focus on queerness. In her course on...
