A rhetorical analysis the use of irony in the American sitcom “The Office.”

This article pursues an antihermeneutic conception of Socratic irony that troubles the borders between pedagogical authority and humility. One of the most tenacious ways of troping the teacher-student relation, Socratic irony is often figured as a way for a masterful teacher to exercise authority over a student. Drawing on the writings of Søren…[Read more]

This article presents the results of implementing a musical/multimodal/multilingual pedagogical
approach to foster literacy practices in an ESL composition classroom at the University of Puerto
Rico-Mayagüez Campus. Based on the students’ written reflections, multimodal texts, and
subsequent interviews, this qualitative research study hi…[Read more]