The Rogue Rhetorician is returning to the classroom. Yes, I gave up the academic job search… and was offered a position. I’ve been away for a…
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Teaching about traditional, digital, and visual rhetoric. Some posts on the teaching of philosophy to undergraduates.
I tried to understand RSA – Rhetoric Society of America – but never could relate to the publications or digital spaces. (I did not mourn…
Comments closedTeaching about rhetoric in the time of Donald Trump presents a curious challenge. I don’t believe Trump is a reflective, scholarly sort of thinker. Reports…
Comments closedTeaching rhetoric (especially since I focus on economics) naturally leads to the political. I’ve noticed that when I was teaching within a business school, the…
Comments closedThe Rogue, a likable yet aberrant individual, breaks norms — often to flaunt his freedom. That freedom comes from knowing the rules are absurd, deserving…
Comments closedMy colleagues in the humanities, especially within English, composition, and rhetoric, often state as accepted Truth that we are the teachers of critical thinking. This…
Comments closedEducation divides us, and more than some of my students and colleagues realize. When I ask classes to estimate the percentage of citizens in the…
Comments closedLike many students, I started to search for the courses with the clearest, most rigid grading criteria. “Writing” became a euphemism in my experience for…
Comments closedBeing on the academic job market, technically a week or so past my MFA confirmation, I thought it would be clear that the MFA in…
Comments closedDemocracy in Chains by Historian Nancy MacLean was worthy of a few online posts earlier this summer, when I first read a loaned copy and was…
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