Search Results for teachingtag:secure.fluffycloud.net,2024:/cgi-bin/mt//feed/teaching2024-03-28T22:01:51ZMovable Type 5.2.10616Hooked Through the Eyetag:blog.mistersquid.com,2010://5.18692010-02-24T15:38:23Z2010-02-24T15:39:30Zmistersquidhttp://blog.mistersquid.com/
I feel like a musky with all the fight gone out of him.»Jackson, Gordon. “Billy’s Girl.” Robert Shapard Ed. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories. 1st ed. Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith, 1986: 180.« Last night I told one of...
The Decline of the English Departmenttag:blog.mistersquid.com,2009://5.16792009-10-10T18:57:46Z2009-10-11T13:23:15Zmistersquidhttp://blog.mistersquid.com/
Early in his analysis of The Decline of the English Department, William Chace asserts that what is at the root of the decline is the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with passion, the books...
Dynamic Anchors using Javascript and Tinderboxtag:blog.mistersquid.com,2008://5.14942008-09-22T20:48:13Z2009-06-22T03:03:15Zmistersquidhttp://blog.mistersquid.com/
This entry is a very brief introdcution to one of the ways in which I use Tinderbox to enhance my teaching. Tinderbox is an unusual program in that it provides so a high degree of flexibility that at first...
Writertag:blog.mistersquid.com,2008://5.14932008-09-20T19:16:38Z2008-09-20T19:57:41Zmistersquidhttp://blog.mistersquid.com/
This morning, I finished reading "Those Who Write, Teach” by David Gessner, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, who discusses the effect of academic teaching (Creative Writing) on writers. In addition to being an excellent read,...
The Postmodern Challengetag:blog.mistersquid.com,2006://5.652006-06-01T05:40:15Z2007-06-04T05:24:15Zmistersquidhttp://blog.mistersquid.com/
Today I was challenged to define postmodernism in ten words or less. I offered, proudly and tautologically, “Postmodernism is what comes after Modernism.” Pride and tautologies aside, a succinct definition of postmodernity is something I was reluctant to provide...
OU all overtag:blog.mistersquid.com,2005://5.282005-01-12T08:00:01Z2007-06-04T04:06:36Zmistersquidhttp://blog.mistersquid.com/
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the profession I’ve found myself in, this whole literary critical/cultural studies schtick I’ve signed up for. It’s hard to believe that I knew I wanted to be a professor when I...