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I'm a teacher-scholar exploring how language, literature, and literacies are taught. I share essays, ideas, and conversations at the intersection of new media and the aesthetic humanities.
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Sara Hildreth Talks Public Reading & Digital Literary Criticism (opens the original)
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In this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Sara Hildreth, a former high school English teacher and the writer behind FictionMatters, a reading community devoted to a wide-ranging public conversation about literature and the life of the reader. Like many fellow travelers in the world of bookish new media, Sara’s journey toward becoming a “public reader” took off during the pandemic, with her sharing thoughts, analysis, and reviews of literature on Tumblr, Instagram, Patreon, and no
Christian Moore-Anderson Talks Teaching Meaning and Cognitive Science (opens the original)
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Episode DescriptionIn this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Christian Moore Anderson — veteran biology teacher and author of Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn’t Enough—to complicate the conversation about cognitive science and teaching. Like me, Christian has felt frustration at the canonization and commodification of a handful of concepts from cognitive psychology being treated like they are THE science of learning, as opposed to a collection of (somewhat) useful th
An Odyssey of Hot Takes (opens the original)
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Dr. Joseph Allen Boone Talks The Melville Effect, Aesthetic Hybridity, & Renewing Literary Traditions (opens the original)
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Episode Description:In this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Dr. Joseph Allen Boone, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Southern California, to discuss his new book from Columbia University Press, The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts. According to Boone, we are living through a second Melville revival. The first, in the 1920s, was engineered by critics who pulled Melville out of obscurity and streamlined him into an American answer to Europea
Three Theses On the Literacy Crisis (opens the original)
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