Rhetorically savvy course descriptions, because they speak to multiple audiences, stand as a demonstration of your teaching excellence. The well-crafted description acts as a snapshot that attests to your ability to attract students and teach your disciplinary ways of knowing beyond your disciplinary context. Whether your context is the job market…[Read more]

In courses that end in summative final exams or capstone projects, it can be challenging to get students to pull back and identify the learning that they’ve done across an entire unit or semester rather than only focus on the learning they’ve undertaken most recently. As part of our larger sequence of active-learning-based lesson plans designed to…[Read more]

Students in analytical writing courses can struggle to fully grasp the difference between observing/describing features of a text and making interpretive claims rooted in close reading and analysis of those features. This multi-part class activity uses color coding and generative AI to establish a clearer framework for students to understand the…[Read more]

A lesson plan outlining a two-part activity that establishes a framework within which students productively wrestle with the place of generative AI in their learning and writing processes, thereby creating the space for instructor and students to arrive at a collective agreement about the use of these tools in the course grounded in a clear set of…[Read more]

Since 2016, the academic narrative emerging from the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida, has increasingly relied on a public scholarship model to bridge the gap between institutional practice and community knowledge. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy as an interdisciplinary scholar, these a…[Read more]

June Julian’s paintings of old trees provided a strong basis for the methodology of aesthetic inquiry In her doctoral research at New York University. In 1994, from that phenomenological grounding, she developed a pioneering ecology art education project on the World Wide Web, and then invited the world to join in. With a genesis in her studio art…[Read more]

June Julian’s paintings of old trees provided a strong basis for the methodology of aesthetic inquiry In her doctoral research at New York University. In 1994, from that phenomenological grounding, she developed a pioneering ecology art education project on the World Wide Web, and then invited the world to join in. With a genesis in her studio art…[Read more]

In this video presentation, I describe three projects that show how Art can help us to imagine cures for endangered coastal archaeology, personal and ecological grief, urban air pollution, and spark us to take action. If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art…[Read more]

If ecology is the study of the interaction of organisms within a shared habitat, and if Art is an Open Concept, we can enlist Art to visualize remedies for broken hearts and broken landscapes. I propose that my following three projects show how Art can help us to imagine cures for endangered coastal archaeology, personal and ecological grief,…[Read more]

As trees everywhere are threatened by human caused environmental impacts, we
lament their demise, and make our heated, pointed remarks about conservation and
change. During a self-directed Summer sabbatical to the
island of Samos Greece, where trees of any kind are struggling and rare, I painted a
series of trees with sharply pointed branches,…[Read more]

Taking up the challenge of navigating the complex world of digital humanities, Making Sense of Digital Humanities offers readers an exploration of the many ways scholars have employed the diverse toolkit of digital humanities to create a better understanding of the synergies and disruptions created by technological change. Rooted in a concern for…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The Arroyo Abatement project took place at the Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles North of Cuba, New
Mexico, in June 2010. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, the objective
was to restore the property from the ravaging effects of water erosion caused…[Read more]

The I Lichen New York paintings by June Julian combine nature, architecture and popular culture. They
reflect the author’s personal experience of place as effected by ecological pressures. Since lichens
only grow in unpolluted places, these works critique the degradation of air quality due
to urban over development.