Category: Education

  • My Article on Haggard and First-year Composition

    I recently wrote about teaching H. Rider Haggard’s adventure novel She in our multimodal communication courses at Georgia Tech.  The piece has been featured on TECHStyle, a site sponsored by the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, which highlights essays about digital pedagogy and innovative teaching strategies.  I particularly enjoyed collaborating with a former student on the essay.  This student was willing…

  • My Op-Ed in Creative Loafing

    Creative Loafing published my op-ed yesterday on their news blog, “Fresh Loaf.”  Read “Guns Don’t  Belong on Georgia’s College Campuses” here.

  • Goodbye Georgia Perimeter College and Hello Georgia State University

    Last week, the Board of Regents approved the merger of Georgia Perimeter College and Georgia State University.  The consolidation of the two schools will result in the new GSU having over 50,000 students–making it the largest university in the state.  A lot of details about the merger are unknown including how exactly it will take…

  • Why Campuses Can’t Talk About Alcohol When It Comes to Sexual Assault

    Here’s an interesting article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on a difficult issue facing college campuses.  It’s crucial that we lower the rates of sexual assault on campuses, but how do we do that and talk about unsafe drinking practices without blaming victims and exonerating perpetrators?

  • Great Resource

    Frontline, PBS’s flagship public affairs series, has 170 of its films posted online where anyone can watch for free.  This is a terrific resource for teachers to use in the classroom or to recommend to students when they are doing research on a hot-button issue.  Their documentaries are timely and thorough, and they feature expert testimonies that…

  • Teaching Grit

    I am currently working to update my teaching philosophy, and I’ve been reading about the most recent trends in educational practice.  Because I am particularly interested in how literary studies can pair with civic engagement, I’ve been reading a lot about community-based learning.  I’ve also been reading about “grit” and education.  This isn’t a brand…

  • Media Coverage on Prison Education

    My colleagues and friends know that I am passionate about educational programs in prisons.  My experiences teaching in a prison and research showing how education reduces recidivism have convinced me that we need to reevaluate how we view incarceration, rehabilitation, and justice. Governor Cuomo’s support for college education in NY prisons has garnered a good…

  • Should Adjuncts Earn More?

    NPR recently aired a piece on adjuncts in higher education and how little they make each year at colleges and universities across the country.  This story makes me nervous.  I’ll be graduating with a PhD in the next couple of years, and I worry about not being able to find work that pays a decent…

  • Science and the Humanities Have More in Common Than We Think

    Krista Tippett recently interviewed Brian Greene for her program On Being.  Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and has written lots of provocative stuff about our universe.  I’ve heard him interviewed before, but this conversation was particularly interesting because, at one point, they discuss the troubling disconnect between science and…

  • Lit2Go

    I love this resource so much that I have to share it.  The University of South Florida has loads of books that are in the public domain available as free audiobooks.  I found these when I was studying for my comprehensive exams and needed to read at all hours of the day.  Since I had…