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Re-imagining Africa in the Digital Age
How is Africa imagined in the 21stcentury? What notions does Africa conjure in the minds of a casual observer? As a continent constantly mired in crisis, the site of humanitarian disasters, prone to...
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To Be or Not To Be
A few years ago I came across an anecdote by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh that’s stuck with me since. The tale goes something like this: A healthy child is born to a well-off family and all his neighbors...
View ArticleHow Is the Way We Communicate Changing?
Images are used to communicate information to us much more often than any other form of information and the reasons for that are well-established. We process visual information in a much more...
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I fucking hate blogs, but I’m obliged to do this 5 times for reasons I’ll explain later. So, for my first one, I thought I’d just introduce some questions. No one’s watching, so if you’re bothering to...
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Chillax peeps.
Dissertation writing can be an arduous process, obvs. It can also be enlightening about your use of language. Do you know how many times I’ve used the word “influence” in my dissertation draft?...
View ArticlePastor McRemus’ Sermon on Academics, ctd.
At the request of the author, we have unpublished “Pastor McRemus’ Sermon on Academics.” All of the comments were unpublished with the post. The author writes: It was only speech. It caused no actual...
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Interviews (not the academic kind)
This is a piece about using technology to document and preserve as well as connect anew. It is also about advocating for audio documentation as a break from the insistent and incessant visual realm....
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The Rhetoric of “um so like…”
In a book review for Bruce Bawer’s The Victims’ Revolution, another one of those humanities-in-decline books, I read this: At a gathering of the Cultural Studies Association at the University of...
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Writing Longhand?
Society of late has been racing full steam ahead toward the ever-increasing domination of technology over our lives and over our classrooms. Higher education is moving toward online and hybrid...
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TLHUB: It’s Better When It’s Messy
If the world is becoming more and more dependent on technology it is imperative that we (read: intellectuals, scholars, academics, literary peoples, translators) create our own place in it; a place not...
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A Babel Mixtape
Adrian Tomine, “Society Dictates” (2001). Rewind. A context: When I was in middle school, I didn’t realize that I was witnessing a shift in communication. The shift seemed ordinary. Our neighborhood...
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Preferred Gender Pronouns
Two years ago I joined a musical project whose meetings begin with participants sharing their names and preferred gender pronouns (PGPs). PGPs are terms like “she/her,” “he/him,” “they/their,” and...
View ArticleKeep it Concise
As part of the initiative to introduce low stakes writing assignments across the curriculum, a management accounting course has recently piloted a short writing assignment for extra credit. It is not...
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What I learned in my international archival research
This break, I spent time in Moscow, conducting dissertation research. This archival trip has been useful, not only for my dissertation research, but in a way I never expected: helping my pedagogy...
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In a World… of Uptalk, Sexy Babies, and God
Why do you speak the way you speak? Are you aware of your voice being marked by region, gender, or age? Do you consciously try to modify your voice, or do you just let it flow? We know that word...
View ArticleThe Complexities of Creative Projects
Honing my teaching philosophy statement last year, I measured the lofty ideals I express there against my actual teaching practice. I assert that “theatre classes provide an opportunity for an...
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On gravitating and levitating (part one)
I’ll begin with a passage from James Joyce’s “The Dead” to illustrate reading as an embodied experience in movement: “Her voice strong and clear in tone attacked with great spirit that runs which...
View ArticleThe Ask
I admit to having experienced a slight cringe upon hearing the word “ask” used as a noun recently. The usage to which I’m referring usually takes some form along the lines of “the ask is that you do so...
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Seeing Weird Theatre: Analysis of an Assignment
My dissertation is about contemporary experimental performance, what I like to call “weird theatre.” I introduce myself to my students, joking that I write about weird little performances that happen...
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Teaching Queer Language/Queer Language Teaching
I have been teaching Italian for nearly ten years now and have never come out to my students. For some reason the words “I’m queer” never seem to come up when we are conjugating verbs or figuring out...
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