Pearce Durst works as an Associate Professor At North Central College. He teaches courses specializing in digital rhetoric, multimodal composition, literature, and film.
If life inherently involves the pursuit of happiness, education should prepare students to face that overall challenge, not just the needs of a future job.
“[W]hat is broken and twisted is also beautiful, and a bearer of knowledge. The
Deformed Humanities is an origami crane—a piece of paper contorted into an
object of startling insight and