The Hermeneutics of Reading Foucault
“Maybe our problem is now to discover that the self is nothing else than the historical correlation of the technology built in our history.” --...
The Knowledge Cycle: Phases of First Year College (Teaching and) Writing
In concert with my teaching philosophy, I take specific actions to serve as an “authoritative ally” to students' learning, balancing the “authority” and “ally” continuously...
Micro, Personal Essays
Below are some micro essays I wrote last winter, which I might expand into longer pieces: On Being: In a Pokhara, Nepal Hotel Room It...
Birtherism and the Scholarly Debate over Equiano
How disarming it was in reading the essay "Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself," to learn that in the 217 years between the time Equiano (self-published)...
Robinson Crusoe: English Narcissus?
“Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe” by Brett McInelly suggests it will detail the relationship between the expanding notion of the...