For my literature courses this semester, I am tweaking a previous assignment and starting a new practice that will hopefully assist students in learning the material throughout the semester. Today, I want to briefly cover the ways I plan to change my discussion board and my incorporation of post-class memos after each class.
+ brown v board of education, composition, Kleinknecht v Gettysburg College, McLaurin v. Oklahoma, Pedagogy, sweatt v painter, tinker v des moines
Note: Featured image is George McLaurin in class at the University of Oklahoma. At the end of each semester, I look back and reflect upon what worked throughout the course and what could possibly go better. Part of this examination involves considering what assignments and readings to incorporate into the upcoming semester. Today, I want to discuss the tweaks I made this semester in … Read More Looking at Court Cases in the Composition Classroom?
+ african american literature, american literature, bergen, Norway, caribbean literature, comics, deathlok, early american literature, frank yerby, fulbright, gothic literature, graphic novels, Hilary Jordan, image comics, Kristen Imani Kasai, Literature, louisiana literature, marvel comics, mississippi literature, mudbound, native american literature, Pedagogy, southern bastards, southern gothic, southern history, southern literature, southern studies, southern womanhood, The House of Erzulie, Uncategorized
Welcome to 2018! Back in August 2015, I started Interminable Rambling as a space for me to flesh out thoughts I had concerning texts I was reading, pedagogy, and culture. Since that first post, I have published 236 posts for this site on a myriad of topics such as Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and court cases such … Read More What to Expect in 2018!
+ "hop-frog", american literature, archie goodwin, comics, early american literature, edgar allan poe, gothic literature, hop-frog, Pedagogy, reed crandall, trippetta
After my recent post on Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop Frog,” I did a little digging online and found two comic adaptations from Nightmare # 11 (1954) and Creepy # 11 (1966). “Hop-Frog” also appeared as a sub-plot in the 1964 adaptation of Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”; however, I will not be examining that issue at this time. Today, I want to … Read More Comic Adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop-Frog”
+ academia, african american literature, alabama literature, american literature, caribbean literature, composition, early american literature, gothic literature, grading, irish literature, Literature, louisiana literature, mississippi literature, native american literature, Pedagogy, professionalization, southern literature, time management, university, work/life balance
For the first few weeks, I would walk into my eight o’clock class to bright faces and smiles from the students seated within the rows. About a month into the semester, and coincidentally around the same time that they had to turn in their first essay, the smiling faces turned to tired and haggled sleep-deprived visages that stared blankly back at me as I … Read More Is Work/Life Balance Achievable in Academia?
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