Monthly Archives: August 2017

Prison & Performance

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Sharyn

Welcome to the start of the brand new 2017-18 academic year! I am feeling sightly off-kilter still, since the ECLIPSE took up quite a bit of the first day of our semester, but I was happy our students got a … Continue reading →

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Learning is More Important Than Teaching

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Sharyn

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 →

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Teaching A Streetcar Named Desire

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Sharyn

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 →

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