How Not to Say Interdisciplinary
Because the literary fiction and nonfiction that I study and teach is concerned with environmental systems, the primary questions about literary production …
Right and Wrong
This morning I read Michelle Navarre’s “Cleary The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar” in The Atlantic magazine. The essay takes up the …
The Ecological Arts
Let’s just say your professional title is Professor of English and American Studies, and you happen to have been elected President of …
Ecocultural Ethics
“The true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of …
Digitalis
Strigidae: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing in the Arts and Humanities About a year ago I began working with my colleague Kirsti …
Digital Compost
“Something startles me where I thought I was safest” Walt Whitman, “This Compost” It is exciting to be a professor of English …
Swimming with the Current
Among the ways college professors stay alive is by swimming in the current with their intellectual peers. Meaningful exchange with students and …
The Small College Department
For ten years the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture has distinguished itself as the only profession-wide …
A Grant from the NEH
The course I described in my last posting, “Writing in an Endangered World,” engaged students with the social movement of environmentalism and …
The Real Work
“Knowing that nothing need be done, is where we begin to move from” -Gary Snyder, “Four Changes,” Turtle Island (1974) How do …
