The History of Disenchantment
Here’s a brief description of a course I’ll be teaching next semester: In a wonderful early poem,...
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for pedagogical pluralism
Most of what I’m about to say here seems to me quite obvious, and I suspect many of my readers will agree. But if so,...
lecturing, bodily presence, neoliberalism
In general I’m in favor of the idea of defending the lecture, but this piece in Jacobin by Miya Tokumitsu blurs some...
those darn millennials?
Stories like this one by Frank Furedi are ubiquitous these days. It’s a refrain sung by many: Back in 2003, Neil Howe...
KSR’s Mars: a stab at a course description
Posting continues to be light and rare around here because I’m still slaving away at two books — one and two —...
presentism
No surprises here, of course, but when you ask people who teach creative writing in American universities what books...
resistance is futile, part zillion
Alex Reid is very unhappy with teachers like me who ban laptops (and other internet-enabled devices) from class. I’ve...
my course on the "two cultures"
FOTB (Friends Of This Blog), I have a request for you. This fall I’m teaching a first-year seminar for incoming...
laptops of the Borg
What, yet another Borg-Complex argument for laptops in the classroom? Yeah. Another one. Laptops are not a “new,...
the science of grading
A while back Jonathan Zittrain tweeted a suggestion about academic grading that I like, so I’m adapting it for my...