As a lifelong bibliophile, I’ve essentially been reviewing books all my life. As a writer, I’ve reviewed books for Pop Matters, Altar Magazine, the Mother Talk network of bloggers and book reviewers, Feminist Review and more. I’ve gotten to review everything from an encyclopedic volume on…
Essays
Some of the personal or scholarly essays I’ve published are not directly linkable, but here’s what I’ve rounded up. Feel free to drop me a comment if you want further reading material. Scholarly: Queer Youth Cultures (Suny Series, Interruptions: Border…
Writing
While I’ve been blogging for over eight years now, I’ve been writing for much longer, and a fair sampling of what I’ve done is scattered across the Internet, compiled here for your reading pleasure. I’ve written and published book reviews, poetry, essays, and features,…
Lesson Planning: Poetry
Like the list I’m making for literature, I’m keeping a running archive of lesson plans I find on the Internet that serves as jumping-off places for my own lesson planning when it comes to poetry. I’ll try and use whatever works…
Lesson Planning: Reading
Integrating the teaching of reading and writing is a challenge for any new English teacher, especially for teaching adolescents. Here’s where I have compiled websites and resources that I have used or find really fruitful for ways to think about…
Lesson Planning: Writing
One of the trickiest parts of teaching English for me is making that sure I am allowing ample time to cover the subject material–literature, poetry, drama– while also teaching the important skills of reading and writing. Here’s where I’ve gathered…
Teaching Facebook Culture
In the spring and fall semesters of 2008, I taught a class at UMBC in the Media and Communication Studies program titled “Facebook Culture: Democracy, Surveillance, and New Media.” It was a really interesting class to teach, and since then several of…
Teaching with Technology
As you might have noticed, I am a passionate devotee of all that integrating technology can mean for teachers. Here you will find links to the best posts and articles I’ve written on the subject, as well as my favorite…
Lesson Planning: Pedagogy
It’s an amazing thing to be a teacher in the 21st century– rather than feeling isolated or alone, we are almost overwhelmed by the amount of information available to us. I try to collect whatever seems useful to me, as…
Lesson Planning: Literature
I’m trying to build myself an archive of the lesson plans I’ve found on the internet that are related to texts I teach currently or would like to– eventually, I’d like to try them out and blog about them as…