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 ›
Category: Critical Race Studies
As a sound studies scholar, I am always looking for ways to bring sound into my classroom. I play recordings of wild birds, amphibians, and … Read More ›
I’m a 19th-century Americanist and my syllabi for courses taught in early American lit have covered a wide span of women’s literature. I’ve always gone … Read More ›
My 8am class has turned into a hotbed of burning questions and research. How this happened since my last post about the grueling 8am time slot, I … Read More ›
As I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, my 8 a.m. class this semester has been a challenge but by now (two months into the semester) … Read More ›
When I was assigned “Women, Gender, and U.S. Literature,” a 5-week summer course that meets 4 days a week for 2 hours, I stared at … Read More ›
“The vast majority of our professors…used the classroom to enact rituals of control that were about domination and the unjust exercise of power. In these … Read More ›
Pedagogy and American Literary Studies (PALS) invited me last month to write a guest post on teaching the American Literature Survey Course. While collaborating and … Read More ›
