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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...
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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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