As Angela Morales comes of age from one essay to the next, and discovers her own voice, she harkens back to the experiences that gave her voice.
Author: Gwynne Monahan
For Aimee Nezhukumatathil, fireflies function as both metaphor and a vehicle for memory.
In her essay, “So Many Rings,” Ana Maria Spagna is able to keep both her personal revelations through time and the reader grounded by using significant cultural events as time markers.
A situation/event divided into two lists. For the first list, every line starts with “I remember.” For the second list, every line starts with “I don’t remember.” There is a difference.
There is no shortage of commentary on the "Blurred Lines" case, and its $7.4 million dollar award to the family of Marvin Gaye. Tim Wu does a nice job of outlining the case in The New Yorker, and his reference…
Yes, I am a poor judge of my own writing. Laugh, of course, but please contain the eye roll until we examine the evidence. So, let’s examine the evidence. Exhibit A: Finding Hybrids in the Legal Industry Published on January…
I was that student that didn’t bother with drafts. I just wrote the final paper. I’m a thinker, and structure my writing as I go about my day. During school, I structured as I did research. I moved parts around…
Teaching a class on digital and social media, let alone a graduate level class, was not on my to-do list. The more I try to distance myself from social media, it seems, the more its claws dig deep, puncturing skin,…
"How do you know all this stuff?" The question always give me pause. The "stuff" depends on the group inquiring. Most recently, it was one of my grad students during class. I was in the middle of showing how the…
Know the Theory of Threes? Or the Rule of Three? That things tend to happen in threes, whatever they may be. Birth. Death. Weddings, though I will argue weddings happen in sixes, not threes. Compliments, it turns out, also follow…