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Tag Archives: syllabus
Confronting Tokenism in the Syllabus
With the news that heretofore widely beloved author Sherman Alexie is apparently a real monster who has preyed on women–particularly Native women–and threatened to ruin the careers of anyone who reported his sexual harassment, I had to confront my own … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Profession, Teaching
Tagged Claire Morgan, Diane Glancy, Leslie Marmon Silko, literature, Native Americans, Sherman Alexie, syllabus, teaching, tokenism
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Checking Out THE STREET
I’ve been teaching Richard Wright’s Native Son for years in my American Literature since 1914 course. (See related posts under the tag for “Native Son”) But because the book has so many problematic components–rape, murder, violence against women, a really lagging … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, African American Lit, Feminism, Teaching
Tagged Ann Petry, literature, Native Son, Naturalism, Richard Wright, syllabus, The Street
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Book Orders, How Do They Work?
It’s that time of the semester–time to submit my textbook orders for the impossibly far-seeming Fall semester 2017. The pressure to get them in on time is pretty strong, since each department gets a stipend from the book store that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, syllabus, teaching, textbooks, the simpsons, theatre
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