Corpus linguistics, cosmopolitan English, and the trickiness of academic “communities” Over the summer, I had an idea about how word processors (or other proofreading-focused software) could use corpus linguistics...
Basic Writing, handwringing about “standards,” and On Being Included I’m working out some thoughts about parallels that I’m seeing between the hand wringing over academic “standards” that happened...
“Fake News” is a symptom. Not a disease. In this #alternativefacts landscape, it feels almost heretical to take any side other than STRONGLY OPPOSE when it comes...
Intersectionality, assemblage, and energy-field imagery: unpacking theories of identity In the last two weeks, I’ve been reading Krista Ratcliffe’s Rhetorical Listening, some of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work anthologized in...
Anti-racism, graduate education, and Cosmopolitan English Early in the morning after our nation elected Donald Trump as our president, I watched this short video by...
Post-Watson thoughts: translingual pedagogies and reciprocal recognitions At the beginning of my Orals process, one of my sub-lists focused on the divide between L2 and translingualism....
As If Teaching Mattered: On “Quick” Fixes and Slow Professional Development In my work for the Center for Teaching and Learning, my colleague and I have lately been on what...
Ethnography, authentic inquiry, and As If Learning Mattered For the last few weeks of orals reading, conversations with colleagues and students, and general grad studenting, passages of...