I am Associate Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina (Assistant Professor 2010-2013). From 2010-2016 I was also affiliated with the National University of Singapore Department of Biological Sciences (Visiting Senior Fellow, 2010-2012, and Visiting Associate Professor, 2013-2016). Before that I was Assistant Professor of English and Director of Advanced Writing in the Disciplines at Northeastern University. Phone: 843-492-5243
We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but ... more We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but we disagree on what this means in practice. We believe that lecture courses offer undergraduates adequate opportunity to show whether they can get the right answer. Labs, on the other hand, offer an
W ith the collapse of poetic Modernism as a coherent aesthetic and the uncertain status of the av... more W ith the collapse of poetic Modernism as a coherent aesthetic and the uncertain status of the avant-garde in its wake, American poetry's much-discussed inward turn in the decades following World War II participated in, and contributed to, a Romantic rewriting of literary history. This rewriting has had conse-? 1996 by Cultural Critique. Winter 1995-96. 0882-4371/96/$5.00.
Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies f... more Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies for some time, her work has not received the critical attention it warrants. Her latest book, Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, provides an opportunity for reflection on a body of writing remarkable both in its consistency and its constant reinvention. Indeed, reading Perloff through Wittgenstein's Ladder throws her other work over the last twenty years into a new light, as many concepts crucial to her ...
Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies f... more Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies for some time, her work has not received the critical attention it warrants. Her latest book, Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, provides an opportunity for reflection on a body of writing remarkable both in its consistency and its constant reinvention. Indeed, reading Perloff through Wittgenstein's Ladder throws her other work over the last twenty years into a new light, as many concepts crucial to her ...
Writing lab reports in science classes can be more productive and engaging if the experience is s... more Writing lab reports in science classes can be more productive and engaging if the experience is structured well.
We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but ... more We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but we disagree on what this means in practice. We believe that lecture courses offer undergraduates adequate opportunity to show whether they can get the right answer. Labs, on the other hand, offer an
CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef&#... more CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef's mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to do collectively what they can't do individually. CrossRef is also the official DOI registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. It operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher's platform and link directly to the cited content on another publisher's platform, subject to the ...
Laboratory pedagogy is moving away from step-by-step instructions and toward inquiry-based learni... more Laboratory pedagogy is moving away from step-by-step instructions and toward inquiry-based learning (IBL), but only now developing methods for integrating inquiry-based writing (IBW) practices into the laboratory course. Based on an earlier proposal (Science 332:919 (2011)), we designed and implemented an IBW sequence in a university bioinformatics course. We automatically generated unique, double-blinded, biologically plausible DNA sequences for each student. After guided instruction, students investigated sequences independently and responded through IBW writing assignments. IBW assignments were structured as condensed versions of a scientific research paper, and because the sequences were double blinded, they were also assessed as authentic science and evaluated on clarity and persuasiveness. We piloted the approach in a seven-day workshop (35 students) at Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine in Kuala Lumpur. We observed dramatically improved student engagement and indi...
Pedagogy Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature Language Composition and Culture, Sep 25, 2006
Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt&... more Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt's essay “On Bullshit” has circulated widely among graduate students in Frankfurt's academic field of philosophy, where it gained the status of a minor modern classic. Republished in 2005 as a hardback volume slimmer than an empty wallet, On Bullshit suddenly became a campus bestseller whose runaway success generated considerable media attention, including profiles in the New York Times and on 60 Minutes. On its face, this republication ...
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 2006
Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt&... more Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt's essay “On Bullshit” has circulated widely among graduate students in Frankfurt's academic field of philosophy, where it gained the status of a minor modern classic. Republished in 2005 as a hardback volume slimmer than an empty wallet, On Bullshit suddenly became a campus bestseller whose runaway success generated considerable media attention, including profiles in the New York Times and on 60 Minutes. On its face, this republication ...
Abstract: When students and teachers talk about the arrangement of the experimental article in sc... more Abstract: When students and teachers talk about the arrangement of the experimental article in science, they usually take for granted a particular set of radically differentiated parts, including the abstract, the introduction, the materials and methods, the results, and the discussion. All handbooks work from this model. The implication of some literature is that the only excuse for breaking this fairly strict set of expected sections is by virtue of reputation. In Jack Selzer's seminal book" Understanding Scientific Prose," he suggests that students ...
First, I theorize how notions of reflection and reflexivity might help forestall the reduction of... more First, I theorize how notions of reflection and reflexivity might help forestall the reduction of WID practice to wholly pragmatic ends. Second, I explore how reflection and reflexivity are being implemented in a WID program (at Northeastern University) that retains the anomalous status of remaining within an English department. And third, I argue that reflection in such a program serves to slow the social processes of subject formation and interpellation and opens a space for critical engagement that is unlikely to be created by WID programs housed in the disciplines (which are designed to accelerate those very processes). This version of a critical WID pedagogy acknowledges the knowledge-constructing conventions of disciplinary frames but holds that such conventions must be interrogated as much as learned. When conceived as a brake on social formation rather than as a means to it, reflection provides a rationale for maintaining WID courses in institutional locations that value critical rhetorical perspectives (such as departments of English or rhetoric).
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Jun 30, 2020
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is an international interdisciplinary humanities schola... more Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is an international interdisciplinary humanities scholarly journal in English concentrating on critical and cultural theory, literary criticism, language and translation, and pedagogical practices. This issue contains a special feature on Modernity @ Zero Hour: The Question of the Universal and the Origins of the Global Order guest-edited by Barrett Watten and including essays by Gary Huafan He, David Kellogg, Parvinder Mehta, Herman Rapaport, Barrett Watten, and Lauri Scheyer.
A 1942 meeting of T.S. Eliot in a BBC recording studio with George Orwell, alongside several Cari... more A 1942 meeting of T.S. Eliot in a BBC recording studio with George Orwell, alongside several Caribbean and British Indian writers of color, suggests a multicultural vision of high modernism that never quite happened. The exemplary modernism of Eliot's The Waste Land prompted a number of imitations, extensions, and experiments, only some of which made it into subsequent literary history. This paper concerns two modernist non-happenings, Epistle to Prometheus by Babette Deutsch and F.M.S.R. by Francis P. Ng. Epistle to Prometheus, a book-length poem combining Eliotic modernist ambition and broadly left politics, was suppressed by the author almost immediately after publication for reasons that remain obscure. F.M.S.R., a long poem in the Eliot tradition addressing a train journey between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, was completely lost until recently discovered and the author (Teo Poh Leng) identified. The diversity of approaches in these poems shows how, in the postwar years, modernism was retroactively unified, and how many approaches, including some taking Eliot's influences in unusual directions, have been lost to history.
We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but ... more We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but we disagree on what this means in practice. We believe that lecture courses offer undergraduates adequate opportunity to show whether they can get the right answer. Labs, on the other hand, offer an
W ith the collapse of poetic Modernism as a coherent aesthetic and the uncertain status of the av... more W ith the collapse of poetic Modernism as a coherent aesthetic and the uncertain status of the avant-garde in its wake, American poetry's much-discussed inward turn in the decades following World War II participated in, and contributed to, a Romantic rewriting of literary history. This rewriting has had conse-? 1996 by Cultural Critique. Winter 1995-96. 0882-4371/96/$5.00.
Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies f... more Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies for some time, her work has not received the critical attention it warrants. Her latest book, Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, provides an opportunity for reflection on a body of writing remarkable both in its consistency and its constant reinvention. Indeed, reading Perloff through Wittgenstein's Ladder throws her other work over the last twenty years into a new light, as many concepts crucial to her ...
Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies f... more Though Marjorie Perloff has been one of the most powerful forces in contemporary poetry studies for some time, her work has not received the critical attention it warrants. Her latest book, Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, provides an opportunity for reflection on a body of writing remarkable both in its consistency and its constant reinvention. Indeed, reading Perloff through Wittgenstein's Ladder throws her other work over the last twenty years into a new light, as many concepts crucial to her ...
Writing lab reports in science classes can be more productive and engaging if the experience is s... more Writing lab reports in science classes can be more productive and engaging if the experience is structured well.
We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but ... more We agree with Goggin that students in introductory lab courses “should be learning science,” but we disagree on what this means in practice. We believe that lecture courses offer undergraduates adequate opportunity to show whether they can get the right answer. Labs, on the other hand, offer an
CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef&#... more CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef's mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to do collectively what they can't do individually. CrossRef is also the official DOI registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. It operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher's platform and link directly to the cited content on another publisher's platform, subject to the ...
Laboratory pedagogy is moving away from step-by-step instructions and toward inquiry-based learni... more Laboratory pedagogy is moving away from step-by-step instructions and toward inquiry-based learning (IBL), but only now developing methods for integrating inquiry-based writing (IBW) practices into the laboratory course. Based on an earlier proposal (Science 332:919 (2011)), we designed and implemented an IBW sequence in a university bioinformatics course. We automatically generated unique, double-blinded, biologically plausible DNA sequences for each student. After guided instruction, students investigated sequences independently and responded through IBW writing assignments. IBW assignments were structured as condensed versions of a scientific research paper, and because the sequences were double blinded, they were also assessed as authentic science and evaluated on clarity and persuasiveness. We piloted the approach in a seven-day workshop (35 students) at Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine in Kuala Lumpur. We observed dramatically improved student engagement and indi...
Pedagogy Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature Language Composition and Culture, Sep 25, 2006
Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt&... more Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt's essay “On Bullshit” has circulated widely among graduate students in Frankfurt's academic field of philosophy, where it gained the status of a minor modern classic. Republished in 2005 as a hardback volume slimmer than an empty wallet, On Bullshit suddenly became a campus bestseller whose runaway success generated considerable media attention, including profiles in the New York Times and on 60 Minutes. On its face, this republication ...
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 2006
Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt&... more Since it first appeared in the quarterly journal Raritan two decades ago, Harry G. Frankfurt's essay “On Bullshit” has circulated widely among graduate students in Frankfurt's academic field of philosophy, where it gained the status of a minor modern classic. Republished in 2005 as a hardback volume slimmer than an empty wallet, On Bullshit suddenly became a campus bestseller whose runaway success generated considerable media attention, including profiles in the New York Times and on 60 Minutes. On its face, this republication ...
Abstract: When students and teachers talk about the arrangement of the experimental article in sc... more Abstract: When students and teachers talk about the arrangement of the experimental article in science, they usually take for granted a particular set of radically differentiated parts, including the abstract, the introduction, the materials and methods, the results, and the discussion. All handbooks work from this model. The implication of some literature is that the only excuse for breaking this fairly strict set of expected sections is by virtue of reputation. In Jack Selzer's seminal book" Understanding Scientific Prose," he suggests that students ...
First, I theorize how notions of reflection and reflexivity might help forestall the reduction of... more First, I theorize how notions of reflection and reflexivity might help forestall the reduction of WID practice to wholly pragmatic ends. Second, I explore how reflection and reflexivity are being implemented in a WID program (at Northeastern University) that retains the anomalous status of remaining within an English department. And third, I argue that reflection in such a program serves to slow the social processes of subject formation and interpellation and opens a space for critical engagement that is unlikely to be created by WID programs housed in the disciplines (which are designed to accelerate those very processes). This version of a critical WID pedagogy acknowledges the knowledge-constructing conventions of disciplinary frames but holds that such conventions must be interrogated as much as learned. When conceived as a brake on social formation rather than as a means to it, reflection provides a rationale for maintaining WID courses in institutional locations that value critical rhetorical perspectives (such as departments of English or rhetoric).
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Jun 30, 2020
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is an international interdisciplinary humanities schola... more Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures is an international interdisciplinary humanities scholarly journal in English concentrating on critical and cultural theory, literary criticism, language and translation, and pedagogical practices. This issue contains a special feature on Modernity @ Zero Hour: The Question of the Universal and the Origins of the Global Order guest-edited by Barrett Watten and including essays by Gary Huafan He, David Kellogg, Parvinder Mehta, Herman Rapaport, Barrett Watten, and Lauri Scheyer.
A 1942 meeting of T.S. Eliot in a BBC recording studio with George Orwell, alongside several Cari... more A 1942 meeting of T.S. Eliot in a BBC recording studio with George Orwell, alongside several Caribbean and British Indian writers of color, suggests a multicultural vision of high modernism that never quite happened. The exemplary modernism of Eliot's The Waste Land prompted a number of imitations, extensions, and experiments, only some of which made it into subsequent literary history. This paper concerns two modernist non-happenings, Epistle to Prometheus by Babette Deutsch and F.M.S.R. by Francis P. Ng. Epistle to Prometheus, a book-length poem combining Eliotic modernist ambition and broadly left politics, was suppressed by the author almost immediately after publication for reasons that remain obscure. F.M.S.R., a long poem in the Eliot tradition addressing a train journey between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, was completely lost until recently discovered and the author (Teo Poh Leng) identified. The diversity of approaches in these poems shows how, in the postwar years, modernism was retroactively unified, and how many approaches, including some taking Eliot's influences in unusual directions, have been lost to history.
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