Sam Cosgrove

Conferences represent a paradox to me. How is it that through all of the work that goes into preparing and attending a conference, I come back more inspired, more motivated, than when I left?

There is all […]

by Ryan Dippre (Original)

by Kevin Brown (Original)

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During the summer and fall semester 2012, I took on a project to take every standardized exam our English majors take. Thus, I signed up for and took the GRE General Test, […]

by Megan Kathleen Keaton (Original)

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Scholars and teachers often focus only on alphabetic texts in the classroom (Palmeri; Alexander and Rhodes; Jewitt; Selfe; Shipka); however, we do our students a […]

by Melissa Carol Johnson (Original)

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This essay is grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning and will focus specifically on the ways in which the Harry Potter books highlight the diversity […]

by Heather GS Johnson (Original)

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“Violating Pedagogy: Literary Theory in the Twenty-first Century College Classroom” discusses the challenge of teaching literary theory to undergraduate and gra […]

by Clare Douglass-Little (Original)

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While a thematic approach to teaching is not a novel idea, the specific needs of the developmental writer and a diverse student body can find the continuity of a […]

by Staci Stone (Original)

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This article presents an effective model for a manageable interdisciplinary project that shows students the connections among art, English, and other disciplines; gives […]

by Jeffrey M. Buchanan (Original)

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This article discusses ways literature is taught at the university. It describes a gap in the way English is often taught in literature programs and the way future […]

by Ian Barnard (Original)
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In literature, composition, and other areas of English Studies, relateability can be an important tool to inscribe marginalized subjects as academic citizens. However, its […]

by Gregory Stephens (Original)

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This essay develops a theory of “digital liminality” as a way to analyze the role of technology in the classroom, and in students’ lives. It is also a report on the E […]

by Mary Anne Myers (Original)
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This essay describes an exercise that used cartooning to engage first-year cadets at the United States Military Academy (West Point) with the poetry of Emily Dickinson. It […]

by T. Voorhees (Original)

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This is the report of a multiple case study of four writing students and their instructor as they participated in the trial of a writing pedagogy based on auto-ethnography at […]

by Kristianne Kalata (Original)

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This essay describes the successes and challenges of skills-based literature survey courses in the small liberal arts college setting of Westminster College (New […]

by Jeffrey Gross (Original)

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In theorizing how we should pedagogically approach African American literature, especially in courses for undergraduates, I argue that we have to move away from questions […]

by Monika Shehi (Original)
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This project was born out of my preoccupation with my students’ struggle to articulate their ideas at the sentence level. After being assigned an English 102 Honors class, I […]