DARIAH Ireland Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Cork
I am delighted to have published “Twessays and Composition in the Digital Age” with Hybrid Pedagogy on the 8th of February 2017. The article was collaboratively peer reviewed by Rebecca Halpern and Elizabeth Lenaghan. It is, in some ways, a response to Jesse Stommel’s “The Twitter Essay,” also published in Hybrid Pedagogy. My article considers … Read more
I teach a final year seminar called America With[out] Borders, and among the required readings are long poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes and Claudia Rankine. I have taught Cervantes’s “Bananas” and “Coffee” in other modules previously, but have rarely been satisfied with the lectures. These are challenging poems that require deep, well-researched readings. Students rarely enter … Read more
*I decided that posting my Teaching Philosophy here is long overdue, so below is the most up-to-date version as of 15th December 2016* From day one my students are asked to define themselves as public scholars whose contributions are not just part of “making the grade,” but also a means of breaking down the fourth … Read more