In the summer issue of Poets’ Quarterly, I review the new anthology, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, edited by Megan Volpert. Visit www.poetsquarterly.com to read my review and the rest of the issue. Related…
Tag: pedagogy
Prompts, Pedagogy, and Composition
Tanya Sasser has written a fascinating and important piece on the question of what truly constitutes student autonomy in first-year composition courses. While her piece is primarily about theory rather than practice, I want to discuss to one particular element…
Sometimes Innovative Teaching Is Beside the Point
I had great plans for my tutorial this semester. I was going to have them use the class wiki to put together images and passages from assigned texts, using Tom Clark’s post on one of Katherine Mansfield’s poems as a…