Category Archives: teaching and pedagogy
Putting Together a Syllabus for Graduate Course in Regionalism and Local Color
Unless the enrollments drop considerably, I’ll be starting a new graduate class in two weeks on American Regional and Local Color writing in the late 19th century (course website under development). Here’s the course description, in draft: This course examines … Continue reading
Your Reactions to Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
[Forgive, readers, the embarrassing out-of-dateness of this blog] English 349ers: In advance of Priscilla Wald’s visit to our class on Thursday (3/25), I would like you to write your reactions to Douglass and Lincoln in the comment window below. Write … Continue reading
Marginalia
Just met with a student who has never tried writing marginalia. We had a good 20-minute conversation about what writing marginalia as you read (I forgot about the use of it in re-reading…drat) does for you. We looked at the … Continue reading
Wiki assignments
I’d like to start collecting these. Here’s one from Brian Croxall at Emory U: Wiki Class Notes.
Teaching with blogs…
For my FTI buddies, I thought I would collect a few links on teaching with blogs and post them here. The list could probably be better organized and there are probably better collections of links and information already out there, … Continue reading