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]

This short essay suggests that John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air (1999) re-capitulates its arguments through form. In its written medium, with its hermeneutic mode, and by its promiscuous prose, the book exemplifies its own moral case for dissemination over (in Peters’ chilling phrase) ‘interpersonal mimesis’. The essay positions the boo…[Read more]

This is a syllabus for ENG 818, a graduate course at Michigan State University in Spring 2022.

This chapter examines the public discourse — both utopian and panic-driven — about the growth in popularity of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s

Traditional college textbooks reprint literary works removed from the print cultures in which they appeared. But this class featured works of nineteenth-century American literature as they were originally published through a variety of databases such as the American Periodicals Series (APS; accessed through UCCS’s Kraemer Family Library) as well a…[Read more]

EN 124, College Research, is the second of a two-semester course designed to refine reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills, and to introduce students to the principles and methods of college-level academic writing and research. Writing assignments will be based on a combination of personal experience, analysis, and research.…[Read more]