Texts for Cultural Criticism

Hi everyone,
I thought tomorrow we could take a look at a few texts through a cultural lens. I will bring in two magazine ads, then if we have time we can discuss the explosion of sexually charged youtube music videos that support a political candidate. You all know about Obama girl, I’m sure. Check out [...]

A Weekend for Writerly News

As you know, the man the NYTimes calls a “towering writer” with an ego to match, Norman Mailer, died on Saturday. He was 84. I was fortunate to hear him speak, with one of his sons, John Buffalo Mailer, at the Civic Center in Syracuse last spring. He was as irreverent, but now frail and [...]

Teaching Learning

Hill stated that we need to make education less “academic.” I agree, but I anticipate the same issues that Leila Christenbury experienced in Trailer 11. Hill states:
 the students I see in my senior classes are not noticeably more perceptive, competent, or literarily inclined than those in my freshman classes. By twelfth grade, the adventurous curiosity [...]