Cite Episode 87, folx!
Actually like whatever episode you want plzzzzz. Selfishly, because it helps make our work more visible as academic/public scholarship for all the university systems/structures that work against multimodal & digital work.
10.13.21
Episode 85: Mara Lee Grayson (@MaraLeeGrayson)
Mara Lee Grayson talks about the purpose of first-year writing, antiracist pedagogies and practices, facilitating classroom conversations on language and race, trigger warnings and trauma, and antiracist writing centers.
Rhetoric and Composition folks. If you have friends, colleagues, or graduate students on the market, let them know we are hiring for a new Associate Director of FYC. It's a tenure track line with a 2/1 (my old job). Distribute widely, and apply here: https://t.co/QBqTDPAgLV
ᎣᏏᏲ! What a great day to be Indigenous!
Today, October 11, we celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay to celebrate and honor the culture, heritage, history and contributions of all indigenous people across the country! How are you celebrating today?
🚨🎙️📢 We just posted our symposium schedule on our website — check it out here and be sure to register to receive Zoom links. Can't wait for these awesome #podcasting roundtables and workshops in a few weeks! https://t.co/SC3S0N0CEL
Books aren’t an escape from life: they are part of life. They are what it means to live and be human in a world that is bigger than the bubbles we project onto others. Translation alters the tinny, materialistic navel-gazing eye of American life. Our local library is a beacon.
Seems many folks are encountering discord as people return to work. The physical isolation of the pandemic could be having a negative effect on relationships in the workplace. Any data on this?
“Stock, prescriptive models for online learning exacerbate problematic power dynamics and structural inequities, and they deny students, faculty, and staff the agency necessary for the work of education.”
At the end of my recent piece with @mburtis, we rewrite the Quality Matters rubric "for a human audience, centering the people in a course instead of the tools, policies, and materials." (a thread) https://t.co/fVn3k1jW9N
The threads here are so indicative of the ways in which those in higher Ed are feeling around for some semblance of equilibrium. Things have changed y’all.
Some folks are surprised when I tell them that I am an Americanist because I teach and research Latinx literature.
People, Latinx literature is American literature. Come on, gente.
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, we will be sharing some of our favorite Indigenous, LatinX, and a Hispanic authors. Who are some of your favorites? https://t.co/IZ4xtpwknU