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Friendship in Othello
I’m the first one to say that Shakespeare is not my cup of tea. I managed to get through an English degree at Kenyon College having never taken a formal Shakespeare class (though if you scroll back through to the start of this blog, you might find a post or two about seeing Shakespeare on…
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Weekly Reads: Short week/long days
It’s been so much fun getting back into blogging! Earlier this week I posted my NEH Institute experience from last summer and next week I have a post ready to go about how I adapted that experience in my classroom. This week has been a rough return to classes – Spring term began on Tuesday…
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NEH Summer Institute: Friendship and Identity in Literature, Film, and Adolescence (Summer 2021)
In the summer of 2022, I took part in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar in Boston. The seminar was called friendship and identity and addiction literature and adolescence. And I’m not exaggerating when I say it changed the course of my teaching career period. The NEH seminars are an opportunity for teachers to…
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Weekly Reads : a return?
It’s been a long time since I’ve interacted with this little corner of the internet. Soon after my last post was published (April 2020!) I started a doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University and all of my free time went to academic reading and papers. Though I’m not quite done with the degree *fingers crossed…
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Social Distancing Survival Pack: the Helper Edition
Most days, work keeps me so busy that I don’t have time to stop and ponder what is happening. I’ve limited my news consumption to a few minutes in the morning and at the end of the work day. But sometimes, when I stop moving for too long, I feel powerless in all of this.…
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