Many years ago, while teaching composition with a (relatively) small group of honors students, a student wrote me an email that forever changed the way … Read More ›
In my Fall 2023 Multiethnic American Literature class, I built student self-evaluation into my course structure. In week 2 (of a 15-week semester), students wrote … Read More ›
By Christina Katopodis, PhD This paper was delivered on Thursday, Jan 4, 2024 at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. “Soma” comes from the Greek … Read More ›
This semester I’m teaching Multiethnic American Literature and this last month or so we have been reading authors like Gloria Anzaldúa, who opens the first … Read More ›
We have been schooled to believe that students require external motivators—rewards like good grades, consequences like suspension—to incentivize them to be “good” students who study … Read More ›
Allison Murphy, staff writer for The Daily Beacon of University of Tennessee, reports on The Lifelong Learning Book Club’s first meeting of the year. Read … Read More ›
I’m so excited to share a new article that I wrote about scaffolding group work to be more equitable, giving students scripts for collaboration to … Read More ›
On July 21, 2023, my new article on “How to Move Past Post-Dissertation Depression” came out with Chronicle of Higher Education. Some people experience a … Read More ›
This essay draws on my experiences teaching in the fall of 2020 and serving as associate director of the City University of New York’s Transformative … Read More ›
My new article is out in Zeal‘s “Transformative Teaching” forum on ungrading, which features the scholarship on teaching and learning by leaders in the field … Read More ›
