Agency… Rewriting the Future 10 Feb 201515 Feb 2015 A recent article in the The New York Times ("Writing Your Way to Happiness") talked about the research by psychologists such as Timothy Wilson who maintain that writing can lead…
Uncategorized Location, Location, Location 13 Nov 201413 Nov 2014 You never know, at the start of the semester, when the pivotal moments of a class are going to take place. You design a syllabus, choose readings, and hope for…
Uncategorized Composing Identities and Explorations 4 Nov 2014 Last spring, because of a change in scheduling, I was asked if I would take on another graduate seminar for fall. I agreed, and when I was asked what I…
Uncategorized Polymedia and sustaining relationships 1 Nov 2014 Still rolling over in my head the great conversation we had in class this week in my Composing Identities graduate seminar. Now that the class is well underway I want…
Uncategorized Back on the Blog II 22 Oct 201422 Oct 2014 Writing here feels much to me like the work I do in my garden. It's often generative, certainly intermittent, and sometimes I feel like I've left it so long I…
Uncategorized Digital Media and Composition Pedagogy 7 Jan 2014 Another spring, another syllabus. This time it's the latest iteration of my "Digital Media and Composition Pedagogy" graduate seminar. The last time I taught this course was in spring 2011,…
Digital Media… It’s Not Really a Phone, Part 2 5 Nov 2013 So, after years of not bothering for a variety of reasons (cost, learning curve, not wanting to get further tied to my email) I started my adventure in smart-phone land…
Uncategorized Assistant Professor Job Openings at UofL 8 Oct 2013 We've had the unusual circumstance of three simultaneous retirements here at the University of Louisville, which offers us the unusual opportunity to make three hires in one year. This is…
Uncategorized Yes, But Are You Having Fun? 3 Oct 2013 Irv Peckham, who teaches writing at LSU and whose work I have always admired, stirred up a lively conversation on the WPA-L email list this week (is an email list…
Uncategorized It’s Not Really a Phone 11 Sep 2013 I imagine what I would have thought if, a quarter century ago when I started teaching, someone had told me that some day the students in my classes would be…
