Writing Today
Is the college essay a moribund genre? Perhaps it has a zombie-like existence in English departments, but new media students must learn to write for digital media. That might mean finally burying the essay.
Take Survey of Humanities on iTunes U!
It’s official: my fall section of HUMN 2155 will be Macon State’s first iTunes U-supported class.
Why Study Abroad?
I’ve been invited to talk about study abroad at the Cultural Journeys undergraduate conference. I decided to use music and images to convey my enthusiasm. So, I put together a video of my photography from my 2009 and 2011 travels.
I Have Sex
With all of the Republican primary junk going on these days, it seems as if America is all conservative and traditionalist — trying to get back to the good-ol’-days that never were. Or the days when white, heterosexual, capitalist, men ran everything public and private. Some folks — particularly our youth — are not buying it.
Arresting
The first time I read Kafka’s The Trial, I was an undergrad — probably in my early twenties. I remember liking the novel, but not as much as some of Kafka’s shorter works, like “The Hunger Artist,” “In the Penal Colony,” or even The Metamorphosis. I likely wasn’t ready for Kafka-Writ-Large.
Take Digital Humanities
Last fall, I taught a section of HUMN 2151 — a course that our catalog just calls “Humanities.” I called it “The Art of Science” and positioned it as a study of postmodern culture in general and digital culture in particular. I think it worked pretty well, so I will borrow some ideas from that course for my new offering: “Digital Humanities.”
Lecture on Modernism
Many thanks to Dr. Heather Braun for inviting me to give an introduction to literary modernism in her class on the novel.
