Reading the speech Obama gave this morning in Cairo was like reading all of complex, elusive, and often conflicting ideas that I have had for quite a while about the relationships among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. How refreshing to hear them coming from a president of the United States and not only whispered by…
Over the last few months I have grown dissatisfied with my current layout, which is based off of the WordPress Laila 2.0 theme. The primary reason is that I don’t think it reflects the dynamic nature of the work my students are doing, nor does it provide access to the multiple spaces that my…
I just got some of the best and potentially most fun conference news I’ve had in a while. My abstract, “Of Queens and Candy Aisles: Desire, Decaying Society, and the Literary Tradition of ‘Queen of the Supermarket,’” has been one of 140 papers accepted for the 2009 conference: Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium…
Before the spring semester started this past January I was interviewed by Eileen Stutzbach for Rowan University’s Techcast—a video podcast that showcases what is happening technology-wise at Rowan. I was asked to talk about how I am using Web 2.0 applications in my writing courses. In the below except from the Spring 2009 show…