Category Archives: Higher Education
Diary of a Madman
For an example of the kinds of assignments I create for my students, see the following Global Perspectives in Literature post: Diary of a Madman
On hiatus
Greetings! This blog page is on hiatus. I currently use WordPress as a teaching tool for responding to literature and using digital resources in my survey classes and creating and managing blogs for my desktop publishing class.
Wingate’s ESU Shakespeare Competition: March 4, 2015
“I would be loath to cast away my speech: for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken great pains to con it” (1.5.167-69). –Viola from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night One of my favorite scenes from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is … Continue reading
Wingate’s 2015 Shakespeare Competition Postponed
Wingate University’s Annual Shakespeare competition for middle and high school students will be postponed due to inclement weather. Since Winter Storm Octavia is responsible for this postponement, I give you the following words from Shakespeare’s Octavia, which communicate our disappointment … Continue reading
happiness = a corner table in the Folger Shakespeare Library
Last week, I had the pleasure of researching in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s special collections with one of my undergraduate students. Throughout the week, my student and I examined sixteenth and seventeenth-century narratives and plays about the Trojan War, a … Continue reading
Teaching Shakespeare Institute: A 30-Year Milestone
Originally posted on Folger SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY:
In 1984, the National Endowment for the Humanities funded the first Teaching Shakespeare Institute, a month-long summer program at the Folger for high school and middle school teachers from across the country. Thirty years…
Wingate’s Annual Shakespeare Competition
Wingate University‘s Annual Shakespeare Competition, sponsored by the English-Speaking Union, was an amazing success! The judges were all so impressed with the level of talent that our area’s middle school and high school students displayed during their performances. We appreciate … Continue reading
If an assistant professor falls in the quad
. . . she makes a very loud sound. A few weeks ago, the night before our first snow, I stayed late at work to get some tasks squared away so that I would be on top of my to-do … Continue reading
Places and Spaces in Academia
So I have a confession to make. For awhile now, I have not been posting much because I have been struggling to think about who my audience is for this blog. Friends who want to know more about what I … Continue reading
Twitter’s biggest challenge post-IPO: Optimising for advertising is a double-edged sword
Originally posted on Gigaom:
As Twitter tries to get its financial house in order prior to going public at a multibillion-dollar valuation, one of the aspects of its business that will be under an intense spotlight — as it was…
Invoking Grammar Girl
Even though I am an Assistant Professor of English, I have never thought of myself as a stickler for grammar rules. My twenty-first century composition pedagogy classes encouraged me to focus on an essay’s content over the mechanics, and I … Continue reading
Louis Butelli: Folger Audio Recordings
Originally posted on Folger Theatre Production Diary:
Louis Butelli as Feste in Twelfth Night. Photo by Scott Suchman. Hello once again from your friend Louis Butelli, most recently Feste in Folger Theatre’s Twelfth Night. We closed our show on June…
My Desktop Publishing Students’ Website Portfolios
I meant to post this entry several weeks ago when the spring semester ended, but I got caught up in summer projects. Here are a few of my students’ blogs and websites from my Desktop Publishing class (English 256). Needless … Continue reading
My Students’ Blogs
I am so excited about my Desktop Publishing students’ blog ideas. So far, I have students writing on topics as varied as veganism, college fashion, film and book reviews, devotionals, advice columns, nature painting, and travel! I love when a … Continue reading
Personal Narratives
I always enjoy reading the first essay drafts of each semester because I find out so much about my first-year writing students. Before a semester begins, amidst the syllabus planning, I sometimes debate whether I should start with the personal … Continue reading
Allison Kellar 