Presence, Absence and Retreat in Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
Men seek retreats for themselves--in the country, by the sea, in the hills--and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is...
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)...