This chapter analyzes activist narratives that foreground agroecological systems such as milpa farming. Here, corn has been most visibly used as a unifying metaphor for Mexican identity, while quelites (‘tender edible weeds’), which grow spontaneously at the feet of corn plants, have historically commanded much less attention. Recently, how…[Read more]

For success in research careers, scientists must be able to communicate their research questions, findings, and significance to both expert and nonexpert audiences. Scientists commonly disseminate their research using specialized communication products such as research articles, grant proposals, poster presentations, and scientific talks. The…[Read more]

This semiotic analysis identifies and characterizes how textual, compositional, and mathematical resources have been strategically articulated to project intersemiotic complementarity in the book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; Written by Himself: With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The…[Read more]

Chapter on Emanuele Coccia’s meditations on plants, from the perspective of feminist extinction inspired by Claire Colebrook.

Reflections on Post-Globalscape, an exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera for Intermingling Flux: 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, Editor in Chief Wang Shaoqiang.

Una critica ai miti dell’automazione da una prospettiva femminista

Sul perchè la cura ha sempre più a che fare con la disobbedienza della proprietà privata

Why to care means to disobey private property

This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

The essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]

I discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]

Example of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.

What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

This work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]

This article presents a syllabus copy for the following online courses: (1) Survey of American Literature, (2) Survey of African American Literature, and (3) Workplace Writing. The article contextualizes the congruent syllabi grading components for a target audience of teachers who may be looking for ideas to assist in development of online courses.

This digital anthology was created by students in Honors 120: Questions and the Spirit of Inquiry, taught by Dr. Jessica A. Hutchins at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The course explores the question “What Is Identity?” through perspectives from the humanities, sciences, arts, and the students’ own lived experience. Students worke…[Read more]

To encourage classroom dialectic I often turn to the “quitting” structure of “The Canterbury Tales,” within which pilgrims offer requitals of previous tales that range from exuberant acclamations to
raucous attacks. Within these extremes lie productive forms of correction that emerge as subtle critiques, opposing arguments, and timely (or…[Read more]