As has often been the case when I’ve dived into my digital archives for purposes of this blog, I’d forgotten almost everything about the paper below (presented at the 2012 “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” conference in Paris). If you’d asked me 24 hours ago, I suspect the only thing I would have remembered about it […]
Lies we tell our students [Rerun Sunday]
It’s the start of another semester, so I thought it would be a good time to share what has become a standard part of my Day One spiel for my undergrads. I’ve taken to giving some version of this, no matter what the course actually is, partially because Day One is a good time for […]
Grades. What are they good for?
One of my all-time favorite stories to come out of my teaching dates back at least a decade, when I was still living in Tampa and working at USF. It was a lazy Saturday afternoon, and I was having a bite to eat at a restaurant a short walk from my house. It was sometime […]