Recent Posts

• The Strange Conclusions of HBO’s Watchmen October 5, 2020
• Anti-Racist Resources June 1, 2020
• It may not be a plot hole, but that doesn’t mean it makes sense May 13, 2020
• Memo to me: a quote from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera August 28, 2019
• Revisiting Ready Player One July 15, 2018
• Shippey’s J. R. R. TOLKIEN: AUTHOR OF THE CENTURY September 10, 2015
• McAllister’s GAME WORK: LANGUAGE, POWER, AND COMPUTER GAME CULTURE August 27, 2015
• Feldon and Kafai’s “Mixed Methods for Mixed Reality: Understanding Users’ Avatar Activities in Virtual Worlds” July 23, 2015
• Farah Mendlesohn’s RHETORICS OF FANTASY July 8, 2015
• Le Guin’s CHEEK BY JOWL July 6, 2015
• Goldberg’s WRITING DOWN THE BONES: FREEING THE WRITER WITHIN June 17, 2015
• Robert Crossley’s “Education and Fantasy” June 16, 2015
• Verlyn Flieger’s SPLINTERED LIGHT: LOGOS AND LANGUAGE IN TOLKIEN’S WORLD June 9, 2015
• Peter Elbow’s WRITING WITH POWER: TECHNIQUES FOR MASTERING THE WRITING PROCESS April 10, 2015
• Dennett’s INTUITION PUMPS AND OTHER TOOLS FOR THINKING February 27, 2015
• Covino’s MAGIC, RHETORIC, AND LITERACY: AN ECCENTRIC HISTORY OF THE COMPOSING IMAGINATION February 19, 2015
• Campbell’s THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES February 12, 2015
• Burke’s COUNTER-STATEMENT February 10, 2015
• Booth’s THE RHETORIC OF FICTION January 15, 2015
• Villanueva’s “Considerations for American Freireistas” December 18, 2014
• Young’s ‘Nah, We Straight’: An Argument against Code Switching” December 5, 2014
• Royster’s “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own” November 25, 2014
• Rose’s “The Language of Exclusion: Writing Instruction at the University” November 24, 2014
• Ritchie and Boardman’s, “Feminism in Composition: Inclusion, Metonymy, and Disruption” November 22, 2014
• Pratt’s “Arts of the Contact Zone” November 21, 2014
• Matsuda’s “The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in U.S. College Composition” November 21, 2014
• Lunsford and Ede’s “On Distinctions Between Classical and Modern Rhetoric” November 19, 2014
• LeFevre’s “Invention as a Social Act” November 17, 2014
• Gibson, Marinara, and Meem’s “Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality” November 7, 2014
• Flower’s “Cognition, Context, and Theory Building” November 1, 2014
• Ellsworth’s “Why Doesn’t This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy” October 29, 2014
• CCCC’s “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” October 29, 2014
• Berlin’s “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories” October 27, 2014
• Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University” October 23, 2014
• Overview: Baca’s “Rethinking Composition, Five Hundred Years Later” October 22, 2014
• Vygotsky’s THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE October 17, 2014
• Rose’s LIVES ON THE BOUNDARY: A MOVING ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICA’S EDUCATIONALLY UNDERPREPARED October 10, 2014
• Quintilian’s INSTITUTIO ORATORIA October 6, 2014
• Plato’s PHAEDRUS and TIMAEUS October 4, 2014
• Hurley, Dennett, and Adams’ INSIDE JOKES: USING HUMOR TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THE MIND October 3, 2014
• Huizinga’s HOMO LUDENS: A STUDY OF THE PLAY-ELEMENT IN CULTURE October 1, 2014
• Johnson’s A RHETORIC OF PLEASURE: PROSE STYLE & TODAY’S COMPOSITION CLASSROOM September 29, 2014
• Koster’s A THEORY OF FUN FOR GAME DESIGN September 27, 2014
• Hooks’ TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS: EDUCATION AS THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM September 26, 2014
• General Notes: Freud’s WOLFMAN, Gardner’s FRAMING MINDS, and Covino’s THE ART OF WONDERING September 24, 2014
• Gardner’s CREATING MINDS: AN ANATOMY OF CREATIVITY AS SEEN THROUGH THE LIVES OF FREUD, EINSTEIN, PICASSO, STRAVINSKY, ELIOT, GRAHAM, AND GANDHI September 19, 2014
• Egan’s THE EDUCATED MIND: HOW COGNITIVE TOOLS SHAPE OUR UNDERSTANDING September 16, 2014
• Freire’s PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED September 12, 2014
• Dewey’s EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION September 10, 2014
• Cicero’s DE ORATORE September 3, 2014