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Read Poems Every Day (No. 1)
In June 2026, I began creating content for new YouTube channel, “Read Poems Every Day.” I explain the mission and… READ MORE
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2025 Woolf Conference Presentation
Presentation Title Brutal Misprisions: Woolf, Moten, Hartman Access Copy (LINK) Slides (LINK) Original Abstract (short bc part of a panel… READ MORE
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2024 Woolf Conference Presentation
Presentation Title “every time he raised his hand & saw it black”: Virginia Woolf, Fred Moten, and the Possibility of… READ MORE
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Relational Pedagogy in D.H. Lawrence’s Croydon Sketches (Presentation)
“Georgia O’Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree” by profzucker is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Presentation at the 15th International D.H. Lawrence Conference (20 July… READ MORE
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Preparing to
TeachLearnDeconstructionAnythingAfter several weeks of reading Cleanth Brooks’s essays, my Intro to Criticism students turned to The Barbara Johnson Reader (2014) and the… READ MORE
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“If We Are Sufficiently Alive”: On Cleanth Brooks’s The Well Wrought Urn (1947)
My students and I nearly read the entirety of Cleanth Brooks’s The Well Wrought Urn (1947) over the last four weeks. We… READ MORE
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ENGL 734: Literary Modernism, History of Pedagogy, Philosophy of Education
This fall, I’m leading a graduate seminar related in part to my first book project (still a work in progress), Learn | Read… READ MORE
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Random Reading (#6): A.S. Byatt’s Possession (1990)
Is it possible to love a novel for all the wrong reasons? Yesterday, I finished A.S. Byatt’s Possession (1990) for the first time—”a… READ MORE
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A Letter to Students: Love Theory (Round 1)
[The following is a slightly modified letter I sent to one of my classes this semester at USD. The names of… READ MORE
Sketching a Present 