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Category Archives: Teaching
A Reading List is Not a Syllabus, part II
For the first book post in this series about the anti-racist reading list, I’d like to discuss Harriet Jacobs’ 1861 book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which you can find and read for free on the Internet. … Continue reading
#CiteBlackWomen
As an academic, citations are a major part of my work and take up a significant amount of my writing time. There are different styles to adhere to depending on the publication venue for the work, checks and double checks … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Feminism, scholarship, Teaching
Tagged #CiteBlackWomen, citational politics, citations
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Booker T. Washington Checks Out of a Hotel…
1903 was a particularly difficult year for African Americans, as described in Douglas Blackmon’s book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. In that year alone, at least 85 African Americans were … Continue reading
Posted in African American Lit, History, Teaching
Tagged Black, Booker T. Washington, classroom, Douglas Blackmon, Indianapolis, peonage, race, racism, teaching
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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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Critical Thinking & Source Evaluation: It’s Sexier Than You Might Think!
First, let me say that it has been a real struggle this semester, and I have pushed blogging way down my “next actions” list. I should be committing to write here much more, and I intend to get back on … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Politics, Pop Culture, Teaching
Tagged CRAAP, critical thinking, Election 2016, evaluation, facebook, social media
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2017 Reading List
Happy New Year! We are officially in 2018. I find New Year’s Eve/Day to be a bit of a downer holiday. Celebrating the onward march of time can be a little depressing, but mainly as an academic, January is hardly … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, African American Lit, Profession, scholarship, Teaching
Tagged 2017, books, reading
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Angels in America at the Actors Theatre
This past weekend, I was fortunate enough to see Part 2, “Perestroika,” of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. As I have mentioned several times in this blog, I teach Angels regularly as part of my 20th century … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Actors Theatre, Angels in America, Roy Cohn, theatre, Tony Kushner
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Pageants Used to be Theatrical
Welcome Back! If you were able to take Labor Day off, I hope you relaxed and had a great day. If you weren’t able to take the day off, I hope you got paid extra for working on this day … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Pageants, Paterson Strike Pageant, Star of Ethiopia, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois
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Learning is More Important Than Teaching
Last week, I got to attend a teaching and learning conference and surprisingly, the keynote was wonderful. I say this because I have honestly been to so many conferences over the years for which the keynote was decidedly a snooze. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Profession, Teaching
Tagged Active Learning, Cognitive Load, Lecturing, teaching, Todd Zakrajsek
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Teaching A Streetcar Named Desire
I’m happy to share this post I wrote for the Theater Historiography website about multimodal approaches to teaching Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. I like to use the play text combined wth film, animation, and visual art sources in the classroom. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Teaching, Theatre
Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, the simpsons, Theater Historiography
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