The last half of 2016 almost seems like a different year from the first. It is that the resurgence of rightwing populism was sudden but that the power it has amassed became suddenly undeniable. The danger no longer looms: it…
Tag: James Joyce
Year-End Review
One of the things I love about an academic life is how many chances for reflection, renewal, and rebirth there are. Each term is a chance for rebirth, and we also get the rhythms of the calendar year. It is following…
Two Reviews in Poets’ Quarterly
I have two reviews in the late summer edition of Poets’ Quarterly, both of which combine poetry with other obsessions of mine. Marisa Frasca’s Via Incanto: Poems from the Darkroom, as the subtitle indicates, takes photography as one of its subjects. Carrie…
Pedagogy, Penguingogy, & MOOCs
Penguins have very particular opinions about learning and teaching. Maybe this has something to do with how devoted their elders are to raising their young. During the first MOOCMOOC, I made a video about the environments in which I have…
Essay: Joyce, Berlitz, and the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
Before I could start to think about the ways teaching English as a Foreign Language affected James Joyce’s writing (the key research question underlying my doctoral thesis), I had to establish how he taught. My short essay which has recently…
Super Sad True Writing Habits
Tin House is running a series on the Super Sad True Habits of Highly Effective Writers so, as a writer who has been accused of impressive productivity on more than one occasion, I thought I’d share some of my own: I…