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Category Archives: Profession
Langston Hughes and the Literary Canon
In a piece for The Smart Set magazine, Richard Abowitz reminds readers that this past February marked the birthday of one Langston Hughes, popularly known as “the Bard of Harlem.” Over the course of the article, Abowitz parses out Hughes’ … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, African American Lit, Profession, scholarship
Tagged AAVE, Black, Langston Hughes, scholarship, vernacular
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Pending Research
I am not a tenure track faculty, although I very much want to be at my institution. Thus, I don’t have the crushing timeline of research production to meet, but I am aware that my research agenda needs to be … Continue reading
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Tagged dissertation, Jeffersonville, research, scholarship
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Is the MOOC Era Finally Dead?
I’ve posted about my dislike, distrust, and general hatred of the Massively Open Online Course format before (see here and here), but it seems the once-beloved MOOC has now fallen somewhat out of favor. An article in the December 10 … Continue reading
Dealing with a Campus “Incident”
As a college professor and before that, a graduate student, I have long expected that at some point, I would experience a campus incident. By “incident,” I mean a shooting or other serious campus-wide emergency. It’s not that I lay … Continue reading
Bad Pedagogy is Bad
I wanted to comment on this post from the Chronicle which is a “progress” report from a professor teaching a MOOC in college composition at Georgia Tech. It’s somewhat infuriating to me. Part of the difficulty in adapting to new … Continue reading
Go MOOC Yourself
It almost seems cliche or foregone to write anything about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) right now, but they are the new hotness, and thus something stuffy old institutions want to get their collective hands on. Yet, like many university … Continue reading
Of Dissertations And Degrees
It’s rare that a news story touches on the experiences of graduate school and academic work, and when it does, it’s perhaps even more rare that news outlets fully understand the ins and outs of graduate work, research, and academic … Continue reading