“Our visible invisibility means universities sit in the comfortable position of
never having to justify to parents the ever-increasing cost of a college tuition
coupled with the reality that many of their children’
“To the naked eye, I may seem normal just like another student or individual;
however, behind the mask, I am constantly reminded that I am different from
everybody else. I am not sure
“There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to
open a book at all.” ~ Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
There is something that bothers us about conversations about replacing
face-to-face teaching with online learning: they often fall into a trap of
assuming that incorporating synchronous interaction is the optimal way to make
“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of
Committees.”~ G K Chesterston
About two years ago circumstances reduced my full time job in a UK university
Music theory is making the rounds lately. It seems to have started with Ethan
Hein’s post on Quora, and subsequently on Slate,“How Can Traditional Music
Theory Mesh With Modern Pop Music?
“And now,’ cried Max, ‘let the wild rumpus start!”
~ Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
When I first read Mark Z. Danielewski’s House
[https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764/ref=
I am stuck with the following story — not only with it, but by it. My decision
to articulate it is always marked by haltings and hesitations, whether I’m
inscribing it here or
“The problem is to begin with a conception of power relations that grants that
resistance is always possible but not always successful.”~ David Sholle,
“Resistance: Pinning Down a Wandering Concept in Cultural Studies
When I was in graduate school working on my Ph.D. in English, I spent quite a
few hours in the TA office, an expansive room in the basement of the English
building,
As a high-school teacher, I kept quiet about my sexuality because I didn’t want
to draw attention to it. Instead, I created a deafening silence, a vacuum that
tugged on everything around
Things aren’t looking very bright for the arts and humanities at the moment. In
our current age of austerity, arts and humanities budgets are easy targets for
spending reductions. In both the
“‘I hate it when you talk like this . . .’
‘I merely observe that this is a quantum Universe and, as such, what happens is
neither random nor determined.There are potentialities and any third
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook
[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].My relationship with education has always
been a kind of dissonant harmony. I have always loved learning,
