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How you finish
Congratulations to danah boyd, who passed her dissertation defense and will shortly join the one percent of the American population with a doctorate. For those of you who are still working on it, I hope you also have an advisor who will “protect [you] as long as [you vow] to kick ass and take names.” […]
One more reading on culture and the way we talk about “intelligence”
Once again, I am in debt to Mike Rose, today for a thoughtful discussion of anti-intellectualism in American life and tensions in the campaign rhetoric this year, rhetorical motifs that rely on a narrow reading of intelligence. If like me, you are highly skeptical of monolithic constructions of intelligence but wince when you come anywhere […]
Both Fish and Bérubé are wrong
Some years ago, I ran across someone who was so firmly convinced that schools were heterosexist, he thought that K-12 teachers should be forbidden from mentioning anything about their private lives lest they reinforce heteronormative assumptions. I asked, “Okay, so that means you can’t have a picture of your spouse or children on your desk?” […]
Epistle to the late night
Dear evening, I very much enjoy your company at times such as this evening, when I love to unwind at the end of a day and contemplate ideas that I usually do not have time to. But that’s not this evening. You may notice me at 1 am with a stack of student papers, not […]
Michael Bérubé Tuesday
I’m too exhausted right now to think too much about Bérubé’s visit today. I know that his synapses work at least three times as quickly as mine do, he and I disagree about the definition of cultural studies (and at and on this point I think he’s right), and we also disagree about the underlying […]